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 16:20And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.
• 1 Jn 3:8He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
• Rev 12:17And the dragon was wroth with the woman, and went to make war with the remnant of her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ.
• Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
• Heb 2:14–15Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
• Gal 4:4But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,
• John 8:44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
• Matt 1:23Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
• Rev 12:7–13And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,
• Isa 53:3–4He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Matt 13:38The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;
• Luke 10:19Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
• 1 Jn 3:10In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
• Ps 132:11The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon thy throne.
• Col 2:15And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
• Rev 20:10And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
• Rev 2:10Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.
• Acts 13:10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
• Mic 5:3Therefore will he give them up, until the time that she which travaileth hath brought forth: then the remnant of his brethren shall return unto the children of Israel.
• Luke 1:31–35And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
• Rev 20:1–3And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
• Jer 31:22How long wilt thou go about, O thou backsliding daughter? for the LORD hath created a new thing in the earth, A woman shall compass a man.
• Isa 53:12Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
• 1 Jn 5:5Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?
• Heb 5:7Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
• Eph 4:8Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
• Num 21:6–7And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
• John 12:31–33Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.
• Matt 23:33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
• Rev 13:7And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
• John 14:30–31Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.
• Luke 22:53When I was daily with you in the temple, ye stretched forth no hands against me: but this is your hour, and the power of darkness.
• Luke 22:39–44And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.
• Heb 2:18For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted.
• Rev 15:1–6And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
• Matt 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Rev 20:7–8And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,
• Rom 3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
• Matt 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Matt 4:1–10Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

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