Genesis 3:15

God's curse on the serpent contains the first promise of rescue: a descendant of the woman will crush the serpent, though he is wounded doing it.

Cross-references · 40

• Rom 16:20The God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
• 1 Jn 3:8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.
• Rev 12:17And the dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to make war with the rest of her children, who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And the dragon stood on the shore of the sea.
• Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
• Heb 2:14–15Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil,
• Gal 4:4But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
• John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.
• Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call Him Immanuel” (which means, “God with us”).
• Rev 12:7–13Then a war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon, and the dragon and his angels fought back.
• Isa 53:3–4He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
• Matt 13:38The field is the world, and the good seed represents the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one,
• Luke 10:19Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.
• 1 Jn 3:10By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is anyone who does not love his brother.
• Ps 132:11The LORD swore an oath to David, a promise He will not revoke: “One of your descendants I will place on your throne.
• Col 2:15And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross.
• Rev 20:10And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
• Rev 2:10Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Acts 13:10and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?
• Mic 5:3Therefore Israel will be abandoned until she who is in labor has given birth; then the rest of His brothers will return to the children of Israel.
• Luke 1:31–35Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus.
• Rev 20:1–3Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
• Jer 31:22How long will you wander, O faithless daughter? For the LORD has created a new thing in the land—a woman will shelter a man.”
• Isa 53:12Therefore I will allot Him a portion with the great, and He will divide the spoils with the strong, because He has poured out His life unto death, and He was numbered with the transgressors. Yet He bore the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors.
• 1 Jn 5:5Who then overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.
• Heb 5:7During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His reverence.
• Eph 4:8This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.”
• Num 21:6–7So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
• John 12:31–33Now judgment is upon this world; now the prince of this world will be cast out.
• Matt 23:33You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
• Rev 13:7Then the beast was permitted to wage war against the saints and to conquer them, and it was given authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.
• John 14:30–31I will not speak with you much longer, for the prince of this world is coming, and he has no claim on Me.
• Luke 22:53Every day I was with you in the temple courts, and you did not lay a hand on Me. But this hour belongs to you and to the power of darkness.”
• Luke 22:39–44Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed Him.
• Heb 2:18Because He Himself suffered when He was tempted, He is able to help those who are being tempted.
• Rev 15:1–6Then I saw another great and marvelous sign in heaven: seven angels with the seven final plagues, with which the wrath of God is completed.
• Matt 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• Rev 20:7–8When the thousand years are complete, Satan will be released from his prison,
• Rom 3:13“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
• Matt 3:7But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?
• Matt 4:1–10Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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