He saw many proud religious law-keepers and other people of the religious group who believe no one will be raised from the dead. They were coming to him to be baptized. He said to them, “You family of snakes! Who told you how to keep from God’s anger that is coming?

Or if he asks for a fish, would he give him a snake?

“I am sending you out like sheep with wolves all around you. Be wise like snakes and gentle like doves.

You family of snakes! How can you say good things when you are sinful? The mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

You snakes! You family of snakes! How can you be kept from hell?

They will pick up snakes. If they drink any poison, it will not hurt them. They will put their hands on the sick and they will be healed.”

John said to the people who came to be baptized by him, “You family of snakes! Who told you how to keep from the anger of God that is coming?

Listen! I have given you power to walk on snakes. I have given you power over small animals with a sting of poison. I have given you power over all the power of the one who works against you. Nothing will hurt you.

“Would any of you fathers give your son a stone if he asked for bread? Or would you give a snake if he asked for a fish?

As Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up.

On the cloth were all kinds of four-footed animals and snakes of the earth and birds of the sky.

As I looked at it, I saw four-footed animals and snakes of the earth and birds of the sky.

Paul had gathered some wood. As he laid it on the fire, a snake came out because of the heat. It held fast to Paul’s hand.

When the people of the island saw the snake holding to his hand, they said to each other, “This man is a killer. He was saved from the sea and yet it is not right for him to live.”

Paul shook off the snake into the fire. He was not hurt in any way.

They gave honor to false gods that looked like people who can die and to birds and animals and snakes. This honor belongs to God Who can never die.

Their mouth is like an open grave. They tell lies with their tongues. Whatever they say is like the poison of snakes.

We must not test the Lord as some of them did. They were destroyed by snakes.

Eve was fooled by the snake in the garden of Eden. In the same way, I am afraid that you will be fooled and led away from your pure love for Christ.

Men can make all kinds of animals and birds and fish and snakes do what they want them to do.

The power of the horses was in their mouths and in their tails. Their tails were like the heads of snakes and with them they could bite and kill.

The dragon was thrown down to earth from heaven. This animal is the old snake. He is also called the Devil or Satan. He is the one who has fooled the whole world. He was thrown down to earth and his angels were thrown down with him.

The woman was given two wings like the wings of a very large bird so she could fly to her place in the desert. She was to be cared for there and kept safe from the snake, which is the devil, for three-and one-half years.

Then the snake spit water from his mouth so the woman might be carried away with a flood.

He took hold of the dragon, that old snake, who is the Devil, or Satan, and chained him for 1,000 years.