Matthew 23:33
Serpents! Brood of vipers! How may you escape from the judgment of Gehenna?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
In Context
32and you fill up the measure of your fathers.
Cross References
Psalms 58:3The wicked have been estranged from the womb, || They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
Matthew 3:7And having seen many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming about his immersion, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who showed you to flee from the coming wrath?
Matthew 12:34Brood of vipers! How are you able to speak good things—being evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you permit those going in to enter.
Luke 3:7Then he said to the multitudes coming forth to be immersed by him, “Brood of vipers! Who prompted you to flee from the coming wrath?
2 Corinthians 11:3and I fear, lest, as the serpent deceived Eve in his subtlety, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that [is] in the 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 →