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 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• 1 Th 1:10And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
• Rom 5:9Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
• Matt 23:33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
• Matt 22:23The same day came to him the Sadducees, which say that there is no resurrection, and asked him,
• Rom 1:18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
• Matt 16:6Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.
• Matt 23:13–28But 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.
• Matt 16:11–12How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
• 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.
• Jer 6:10To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
• 2 Th 1:9–10Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
• Jer 51:6Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time of the LORD’s vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
• Ps 58:3–6The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
• Isa 57:3–4But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
• Isa 59:5They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
• John 9:40And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
• 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.
• Luke 3:7–9Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
• Gen 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
• Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This fellow doth not cast out devils, but by Beelzebub the prince of the devils.
• Acts 20:31Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.
• Matt 5:20For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
• Ezek 33:3–7If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
• Mark 7:3–5For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
• Acts 26:5Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest 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 brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
• Luke 11:39–44And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
• Matt 22:34But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together.
• Mark 12:18Then come unto him the Sadducees, which say there is no resurrection; and they asked him, saying,
• Ezek 3:18–21When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
• Luke 7:30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
• Acts 4:1–2And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,
• John 1:24And they which were sent were of the Pharisees.
• Heb 11:7By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
• Luke 18:11The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
• Luke 16:14And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.
• Mark 8:15And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.
• Mark 12:13And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
• Rev 6:16–17And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:

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