Acts 28:3
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3 As Paul gathered an armful of sticks and was laying them on the fire, a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, bit him on the hand.
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Matthew 23:33
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33 Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
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Matthew 12:34
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34 You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.
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2 Corinthians 11:23
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23 Are they servants of Christ? I know I sound like a madman, but I have served him far more! I have worked harder, been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again.
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2 Corinthians 6:9
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9 We are ignored, even though we are well known. We live close to death, but we are still alive. We have been beaten, but we have not been killed.
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Acts 28:4
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4 The people of the island saw it hanging from his hand and said to each other, “A murderer, no doubt! Though he escaped the sea, justice will not permit him to live.”
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Matthew 3:7
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7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize,[a] he denounced them. “You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?
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- 3:7 Or coming to be baptized.
Isaiah 59:5
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5 They hatch deadly snakes
and weave spiders’ webs.
Whoever eats their eggs will die;
whoever cracks them will hatch a viper.
Isaiah 41:24
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24 But no! You are less than nothing and can do nothing at all.
Those who choose you pollute themselves.
Isaiah 30:6
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6 This message came to me concerning the animals in the Negev:
The caravan moves slowly
across the terrible desert to Egypt—
donkeys weighed down with riches
and camels loaded with treasure—
all to pay for Egypt’s protection.
They travel through the wilderness,
a place of lionesses and lions,
a place where vipers and poisonous snakes live.
All this, and Egypt will give you nothing in return.
Job 20:16
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16 They will suck the poison of cobras.
The viper will kill them.
Amos 5:19
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19 In that day you will be like a man who runs from a lion—
only to meet a bear.
Escaping from the bear, he leans his hand against a wall in his house—
and he’s bitten by a snake.
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