Matthew 23:33
Serpents! broods of vipers! how should ye flee from the judgment of gehenna?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
In Context
32And, ye, fill ye up the measure of your fathers!
Cross References
Psalms 58:3Lawless men have been estranged from birth, They have gone astray from their nativity, speaking falsehood;
Matthew 3:7But, seeing, many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, coming unto his immersion, he said to them,—Broods of vipers! who suggested to you, to be fleeing from the coming wrath?
Matthew 12:34Broods of vipers! How can ye speak, good things, being, evil? For, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
Luke 3:7He was saying, therefore, unto the multitudes who were going forth to be immersed by him—Broods of vipers! who suggested to you, to flee from the coming wrath?
2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear lest, by any means, as, the serpent, completely deceived Eve, in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the singleness [and the chasteness] which are [due] unto 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 →