Matthew 23:33
You snakes, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
In Context
32So get on with it—finish it all off using your forefathers' methods!
Cross References
Psalms 58:3The wicked are sinners from birth; from the moment they're born they tell lies.
Matthew 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to be baptized, he said to them, “You vipers' brood! Who warned you to run away from the coming judgment?
Matthew 12:34You viper's brood, how can you who are evil say anything good? For your mouth simply says what your mind is busy thinking about.
Matthew 23:13But what a disaster is coming on you religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You slam shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves don't go in, yet you don't let anyone in who is trying to enter.
Luke 3:7John addressed the crowds that came to him to be baptized. “You viper's brood! Who warned you to flee from the coming judgment?” he asked.
2 Corinthians 11:3I worry that in some way, just as the serpent deceived Eve with his devious cunning, that you might be led astray in your thinking from your sincere and pure commitment to Christ.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:14-34
The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make… Read the whole commentary →