Matthew 3:7

John rebukes the Pharisees and Sadducees as a "brood of vipers" fleeing coming wrath. He warns that religious status is no shield from judgment.

Cross-references · 40

• 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.
• 1 Th 1:10and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
• Rom 5:9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
• Matt 23:33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
• Matt 22:23On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
• Rom 1:18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
• Matt 16:6Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• Matt 23:13–28“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Matt 16:11–12How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
• 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.
• Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
• 2 Th 1:9–10who will pay the penalty: eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• Jer 51:6“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.
• Ps 58:3–6The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
• Isa 57:3–4“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
• Isa 59:5They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
• John 9:40Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
• 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.
• Luke 3:7–9He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Gen 3:15I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
• Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “This man does not cast out demons, except by Beelzebul, the prince of the demons.”
• Acts 20:31Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
• Matt 5:20For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
• Ezek 33:3–7if, when he sees the sword come on the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
• Mark 7:3–5(For the Pharisees and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.
• Acts 26:5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
• Acts 23:6–9But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
• Luke 11:39–44The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.
• Matt 22:34But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
• Mark 12:18There came to him Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection. They asked him, saying,
• Ezek 3:18–21When I tell the wicked, ‘You will surely die;’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.
• Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
• Acts 4:1–2As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
• John 1:24The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
• Heb 11:7By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
• Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you, that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
• Luke 16:14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
• Mark 8:15He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
• Mark 12:13They sent some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
• Rev 6:16–17They told the mountains and the rocks, “Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

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