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Luke 3:7

Then John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

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ASV

He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to be baptized of him, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

KJV

Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

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18 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
ἜλεγενElegenHe was sayingG3004 →
οὖνounthereforeG3767 →
τοῖςtoisto theG3588 →
ἐκπορευομένοιςekporeuomenoiscoming outG1607 →
ὄχλοιςochloiscrowdsG3793 →
βαπτισθῆναιbaptisthēnaito be baptizedG907 →
ὑπ᾽hup᾽byG5259 →
αὐτοῦ·autouhim;G846 →
γεννήματαgennēmataOffspringG1081 →
ἐχιδνῶν,echidnōnof vipers,G2191 →
τίςtiswhoG5101 →
ὑπέδειξενhupedeixenforewarnedG5263 →
ὑμῖνhuminyouG4771 →
φυγεῖνphugeinto fleeG5343 →
ἀπὸapofromG575 →
τῆςtēstheG3588 →
μελλούσηςmellousēssoon comingG3195 →
ὀργῆς;orgēswrath?G3709 →

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Matthew 23:33You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?1 Thessalonians 1:10and to await His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead—Jesus our deliverer from the coming wrath.Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.1 John 3:8The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.Hebrews 6:18Thus by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be strongly encouraged.Ezekiel 16:3and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.Psalms 58:4–5Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,John 8:44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out his desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, refusing to uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, because he is a liar and the father of lies.Isaiah 59:5They hatch the eggs of vipers and weave a spider’s web. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.Acts 13:10and said, “O child of the devil and enemy of all righteousness, you are full of all kinds of deceit and trickery! Will you never stop perverting the straight ways of the Lord?Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”Matthew 3:7–10But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his place of baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?Matthew 3:5People went out to him from Jerusalem and all Judea and the whole region around the Jordan.Isaiah 57:3“But come here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!John 3:23Now John was also baptizing at Aenon near Salim, because the water was plentiful there, and people kept coming to be baptized.Jeremiah 48:6‘Flee! Run for your lives! Become like a juniper in the desert.’Ezekiel 20:3“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Have you come to inquire of Me? As surely as I live, I will not be consulted by you, declares the Lord GOD.

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