Psalm 91:13
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13 You will tread on the lion and the adder;
the young lion and the serpent you will trample under foot.(A)
Luke 10:19
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19 Indeed, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.(A)
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Mark 16:18
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18 they will pick up snakes,[a] and if they drink any deadly thing, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”
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- 16.18 Other ancient authorities add in their hands
Daniel 6:22
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22 My God sent his angel and shut the lions’ mouths so that they would not hurt me, because I was found blameless before him; also before you, O king, I have done no wrong.”(A)
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2 Timothy 4:17
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17 But the Lord stood by me and gave me strength, so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the gentiles might hear it. So I was rescued from the lion’s mouth.(A)
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Romans 3:13
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13 “Their throats are opened graves;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of vipers is under their lips.”(A)
Acts 28:3-6
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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. 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) 5 He, however, shook off the creature into the fire and suffered no harm.(B) 6 They were expecting him to swell up or drop dead, but after they had waited a long time and saw that nothing unusual had happened to him, they changed their minds and began to say that he was a god.(C)
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1 Samuel 17:37
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37 David said, “The Lord, who saved me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, will save me from the hand of this Philistine.” So Saul said to David, “Go, and may the Lord be with you!”(A)
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Revelation 20:1-2
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The Thousand Years
20 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. 2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years(A)
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Judges 14:5-6
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5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah. When he came to the vineyards of Timnah, suddenly a young lion roared at him. 6 The spirit of the Lord rushed on him, and he tore the lion apart barehanded as one might tear apart a kid. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done.(A)
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Romans 16:20
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20 The God of peace will shortly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.[a](A)
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- 16.20 Other ancient authorities lack this sentence
Isaiah 27:1
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Israel’s Redemption
27 On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.(A)
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Psalm 58:4
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4 They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,(A)
Job 5:23
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23 For you shall be in league with the stones of the field,
and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.(A)
Revelation 12:9
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9 The great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.(A)
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