Acts 28:3
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3 Paul had gathered a bundle of brushwood and was putting it on the fire when a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand.
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Matthew 23:33
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33 You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?[a]
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- 23.33 Gk Gehenna
Matthew 12:34
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34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.(A)
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2 Corinthians 11:23
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23 Are they ministers of Christ? I am talking like a madman—I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death.(A)
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2 Corinthians 6:9
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9 as unknown and yet are well known, as dying and look—we are alive, as punished and yet not killed,(A)
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Acts 28:4
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4 When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”(A)
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Matthew 3:7
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7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his[a] baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?(A)
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- 3.7 Other ancient authorities lack his
Isaiah 59:5
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5 They hatch adders’ eggs
and weave the spider’s web;
whoever eats their eggs dies,
and the crushed egg hatches out a viper.(A)
Isaiah 41:24
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24 You, indeed, are nothing,
and your work is nothing at all;
whoever chooses you is an abomination.(A)
Isaiah 30:6
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6 An oracle concerning the animals of the Negeb.
Through a land of trouble and distress,
of lioness and roaring[a] lion,
of viper and flying serpent,
they carry their riches on the backs of donkeys
and their treasures on the humps of camels
to a people that cannot profit them.(A)
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- 30.6 Cn: Heb from them
Job 20:16
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16 They will suck the poison of asps;
the tongue of a viper will kill them.(A)
Amos 5:19
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19 as if someone fled from a lion
and was met by a bear
or went into the house and rested a hand against the wall
and was bitten by a snake.(A)
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