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Matthew 23:33

31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

34 Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
KJV
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
WEB
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
ASV
Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?
DARBY
Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
BLB
Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How shall you⁺ escape from the judgment of Gehenna?
ÅB
Slanger og ormeyngel! Hvordan kan dere unnslippe helvetes dom?
OTB
Dere slanger! Dere ormeyngel! Hvordan skal dere unnslippe å bli dømt til helvete?
B1930
I slanger! I ormeyngel! hvorledes kan I undfly helvedes dom?

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Matthew 3:7

    But 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?

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  • Matthew 12:34

    O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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  • Luke 3:7

    Then 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?

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  • Matthew 5:22

    But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.

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  • Genesis 3:15

    And 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.

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  • John 8:44

    Ye 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.

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  • Matthew 21:34–35

    And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it.

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  • Revelation 12:9

    And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

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