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Bible Verses About serpents

This collection includes 50 passages about serpents. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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Scripture Passages

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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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Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

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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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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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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

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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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And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

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

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

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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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He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.

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

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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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But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

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Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.

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

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

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Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

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

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

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But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.

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And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.

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

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They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

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For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

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Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt, which thou wast afraid of; and they shall cleave unto thee.

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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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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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