SERPENT

Passages on this topic · 49

• Genesis 3:1

  Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”

• Genesis 3:2

  The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees of the garden,

• Genesis 3:3

  but not the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden. God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it. You shall not touch it, lest you die.’”

• Genesis 3:4

  The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,

• Genesis 3:5

  for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

• Genesis 3:6

  When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took some of its fruit, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate it, too.

• Genesis 3:7

  Their eyes were opened, and they both knew that they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together, and made coverings for themselves.

• Genesis 3:8

  They heard Yahweh God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

• Genesis 3:9

  Yahweh God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you?”

• Genesis 3:10

  The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.”

• Genesis 3:11

  God said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

• Genesis 3:12

  The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”

• Genesis 3:13

  Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

• Genesis 3:14

  Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

• Genesis 3:15

  I 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.”

• Genesis 49:17

  Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.

• Exodus 4:3

  He said, “Throw it on the ground.” He threw it on the ground, and it became a snake; and Moses ran away from it.

• Exodus 7:15

  Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river’s bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.

• Numbers 21:6

  Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.

• Numbers 21:7

  The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.

• Numbers 21:8

  Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

• Numbers 21:9

  Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of brass, he lived.

• Deuteronomy 8:15

  who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;

• Deuteronomy 32:24

  They shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured with burning heat and bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of animals on them, with the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.

• Deuteronomy 32:33

  Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

• Job 20:16

  He shall suck cobra venom. The viper’s tongue shall kill him.

• Psalms 58:4

  Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

• Psalms 58:5

  which doesn’t listen to the voice of charmers, no matter how skillful the charmer may be.

• Psalms 140:3

  They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.

• Proverbs 23:31

  Don’t look at the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.

• Proverbs 23:32

  In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.

• Proverbs 30:19

  The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent on a rock; the way of a ship in the middle of the sea; and the way of a man with a maiden.

• Ecclesiastes 10:8

  He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.

• Ecclesiastes 10:11

  If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

• Isaiah 14:29

  Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

• Isaiah 30:6

  The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

• Isaiah 65:25

  The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

• Jeremiah 8:17

  “For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you,” says Yahweh.

• Amos 9:3

  Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

• Micah 7:17

  They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.

• Matthew 7:10

  Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

• Matthew 10:16

  “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

• Mark 16:18

  they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

• Luke 10:19

  Behold, 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.

• Acts 28:5

  However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.

• Acts 28:6

  But they expected that he would have swollen or fallen down dead suddenly, but when they watched for a long time and saw nothing bad happen to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.

• 1 Corinthians 10:9

  Let us not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

• 2 Corinthians 11:3

  But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

• Revelation 9:19

  For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.