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 will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
• 1 Jn 3:8He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
• Rev 12:17The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
• Isa 7:14Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
• Heb 2:14–15Since then the children have shared in flesh and blood, he also himself in the same way partook of the same, that through death he might bring to nothing him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
• Gal 4:4But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
• John 8:44You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and its father.
• Matt 1:23“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel”; which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
• Rev 12:7–13There was war in the sky. Michael and his angels made war on the dragon. The dragon and his angels made war.
• Isa 53:3–4He was despised, and rejected by men; a man of suffering, and acquainted with disease. He was despised as one from whom men hide their face; and we didn’t respect him.
• Matt 13:38the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
• Luke 10:19Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.
• 1 Jn 3:10In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.
• Ps 132:11Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
• Col 2:15having stripped the principalities and the powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.
• Rev 20:10The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
• Rev 2:10Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
• Acts 13:10and said, “Full of all deceit and all cunning, you son of the devil, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
• Mic 5:3Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
• Luke 1:31–35Behold, you will conceive in your womb, and give birth to a son, and will call his name ‘Jesus.’
• Rev 20:1–3I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
• Jer 31:22How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? for Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman shall encompass a man.”
• Isa 53:12Therefore will I give him a portion with the great, and he will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death, and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
• 1 Jn 5:5Who is he who overcomes the world, but he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?
• Heb 5:7He, in the days of his flesh, having offered up prayers and petitions with strong crying and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and having been heard for his godly fear,
• Eph 4:8Therefore he says, “When he ascended on high, he led captivity captive, and gave gifts to men.”
• Num 21:6–7Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.
• John 12:31–33Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.
• Matt 23:33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
• Rev 13:7It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
• John 14:30–31I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.
• Luke 22:53When I was with you in the temple daily, you didn’t stretch out your hands against me. But this is your hour, and the power of darkness.”
• Luke 22:39–44He came out, and went, as his custom was, to the Mount of Olives. His disciples also followed him.
• Heb 2:18For in that he himself has suffered being tempted, he is able to help those who are tempted.
• Rev 15:1–6I saw another great and marvelous sign in the sky: seven angels having the seven last plagues, for in them God’s wrath is finished.
• Matt 12:34You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• Rev 20:7–8And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,
• Rom 3:13“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;
• Matt 3:7But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Matt 4:1–10Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.

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