Acts 28:3
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3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
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Acts 28:4
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4 So when the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet justice does not allow to live.”
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2 Corinthians 6:9
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9 as unknown, and (A)yet well known; (B)as dying, and behold we live; (C)as chastened, and yet not killed;
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Matthew 23:33
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33 Serpents, (A)brood[a] of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
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- Matthew 23:33 offspring
Matthew 12:34
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34 (A)Brood[a] of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? (B)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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- Matthew 12:34 Offspring
Matthew 3:7
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7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, (A)“Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from (B)the wrath to come?
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Isaiah 59:5
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5 They hatch vipers’ eggs and weave the spider’s web;
He who eats of their eggs dies,
And from that which is crushed a viper breaks out.
Isaiah 41:24
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24 Indeed (A)you are nothing,
And your work is nothing;
He who chooses you is an abomination.
Isaiah 30:6
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6 (A)The [a]burden against the beasts of the South.
Through a land of trouble and anguish,
From which came the lioness and lion,
(B)The viper and fiery flying serpent,
They will carry their riches on the backs of young donkeys,
And their treasures on the humps of camels,
To a people who shall not profit;
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- Isaiah 30:6 oracle, prophecy
Job 20:16
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16 He will suck the poison of cobras;
The viper’s tongue will slay him.
2 Corinthians 11:23
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23 Are they ministers of Christ?—I speak as a fool—I am more: (A)in labors more abundant, (B)in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, (C)in deaths often.
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Amos 5:19
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19 It will be (A)as though a man fled from a lion,
And a bear met him!
Or as though he went into the house,
Leaned his hand on the wall,
And a serpent bit him!
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