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Bible Verses About Serpent

This collection includes 49 passages about Serpent. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.

Scripture Passages

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And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

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Reading context: Woman answers the serpent in Eden; direct continuation of the central serpent account.

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And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:

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Reading context: The serpent speaks temptation to the woman; central Eden serpent narrative.

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And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

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Reading context: Woman says the serpent beguiled her; central Eden serpent account.

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And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:

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Reading context: God curses the serpent; central serpent judgment passage.

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Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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Reading context: Figurative comparison of Dan to a serpent; still serpent imagery, but secondary.

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And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.

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Reading context: Moses' rod becomes a serpent as a sign; literal serpent miracle.

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When Pharaoh shall speak unto you, saying, Shew a miracle for you: then thou shalt say unto Aaron, Take thy rod, and cast it before Pharaoh, and it shall become a serpent.

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Reading context: Aaron's rod is to become a serpent before Pharaoh; literal serpent sign.

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And Moses and Aaron went in unto Pharaoh, and they did so as the Lord had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

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Reading context: Aaron's rod becomes a serpent before Pharaoh; literal serpent sign.

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For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.

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Reading context: Egyptian magicians' rods become serpents; literal serpent contest.

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Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.

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Reading context: The rod turned to a serpent is taken to the river; literal serpent sign.

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And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

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Reading context: The Lord sends fiery serpents among Israel; central serpent judgment account.

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Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

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Reading context: People ask Moses to remove the serpents; central fiery serpent narrative.

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And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

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Reading context: God commands Moses to make a fiery serpent on a pole; central serpent account.

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And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

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Reading context: Moses makes the brass serpent; central serpent account and typology.

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Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

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Reading context: Recalls the wilderness with fiery serpents; literal serpent reference.

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They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.

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Reading context: Curses include the poison of serpents; literal serpent imagery in judgment.

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He removed the high places, and brake the images, and cut down the groves, and brake in pieces the brasen serpent that Moses had made: for unto those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it: and he called it Nehushtan.

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Reading context: Hezekiah breaks the brasen serpent Moses made; relevant serpent object.

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By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.

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Reading context: Poetic reference to the crooked serpent; serpent imagery, but secondary.

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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

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Reading context: Wicked are compared to a serpent's poison; figurative serpent imagery, secondary.

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They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.

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Reading context: Uses serpent and adder as similes for the wicked's sharp speech; relevant serpent imagery, though not about snakes directly.

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At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

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Reading context: Wine's bite compared to a serpent; secondary figurative use in a warning against drunkenness.

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The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid.

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Reading context: Lists the way of a serpent on a rock among wonderful things; literal serpent reference.

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He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.

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Reading context: Literal serpent bite as consequence of breaking a hedge; wisdom saying about danger.

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Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

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Reading context: Speaks of a serpent biting without enchantment; literal serpent/charming image in wisdom context.

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Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

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Reading context: Oracle against Philistia uses serpent's root and fiery flying serpent as judgment imagery.

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In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

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Reading context: Central Leviathan imagery: piercing and crooked serpent punished by the Lord.

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The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.

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Reading context: Burden oracle mentions viper and fiery flying serpent among dangers of the south.

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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.

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Reading context: Peaceable kingdom image says dust shall be the serpent's meat; literal serpent reference.

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For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

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Reading context: God threatens to send serpents and cockatrices to bite Judah in judgment.

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The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.

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Reading context: Egypt's voice compared to a serpent; figurative simile in judgment oracle, secondary.

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As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.

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Reading context: Illustrates inescapable woe with a man bitten by a serpent after fleeing.

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And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

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Reading context: God commands the serpent to bite hidden sinners; judgment imagery with literal serpent.

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They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee.

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Reading context: Nations will lick dust like a serpent in humiliation before God.

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Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

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Reading context: Uses a serpent as an example of a bad gift in Jesus' teaching on prayer.

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Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

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Reading context: Jesus tells disciples to be wise as serpents; figurative serpent reference.

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Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

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Reading context: Jesus calls Pharisees serpents and vipers; metaphorical serpent language for judgment.

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They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

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Reading context: Signs of believers include taking up serpents; direct serpent reference.

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

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Reading context: Jesus gives authority to tread on serpents and scorpions over enemy power.

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If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?

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Reading context: Uses a serpent as an example of a harmful gift in teaching on prayer.

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

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Reading context: Moses lifted up the bronze serpent in the wilderness; Jesus uses it as a type of His own lifting up.

Read every passage in this collection (49)

Each reference opens its full verse with chapter context, saving and practice.

  1. Genesis 3:1
  2. Genesis 3:2
  3. Genesis 3:4
  4. Genesis 3:13
  5. Genesis 3:14
  6. Genesis 49:17
  7. Exodus 4:3
  8. Exodus 7:9
  9. Exodus 7:10
  10. Exodus 7:12
  11. Exodus 7:15
  12. Numbers 21:6
  13. Numbers 21:7
  14. Numbers 21:8
  15. Numbers 21:9
  16. Deuteronomy 8:15
  17. Deuteronomy 32:24
  18. 2 Kings 18:4
  19. Job 26:13
  20. Psalms 58:4
  21. Psalms 140:3
  22. Proverbs 23:32
  23. Proverbs 30:19
  24. Ecclesiastes 10:8
  25. Ecclesiastes 10:11
  26. Isaiah 14:29
  27. Isaiah 27:1
  28. Isaiah 30:6
  29. Isaiah 65:25
  30. Jeremiah 8:17
  31. Jeremiah 46:22
  32. Amos 5:19
  33. Amos 9:3
  34. Micah 7:17
  35. Matthew 7:10
  36. Matthew 10:16
  37. Matthew 23:33
  38. Mark 16:18
  39. Luke 10:19
  40. Luke 11:11
  41. John 3:14
  42. 1 Corinthians 10:9
  43. 2 Corinthians 11:3
  44. James 3:7
  45. Revelation 9:19
  46. Revelation 12:9
  47. Revelation 12:14
  48. Revelation 12:15
  49. Revelation 20:2

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