Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent?

Persecutions Are Coming

“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

they will take up serpents; and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no means hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.

If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

nor let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents;

But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For their power is in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads; and with them they do harm.

So the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

But the woman was given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, where she is nourished for a time and times and half a time, from the presence of the serpent.

So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood.

He laid hold of the dragon, that serpent of old, who is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years;