Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? New Living Translation Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell? English Standard Version You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell? Berean Standard Bible You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? Berean Literal Bible Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How shall you escape from the sentence of Gehenna? King James Bible Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? New King James Version Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell? New American Standard Bible You snakes, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell? NASB 1995 “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell? NASB 1977 “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how shall you escape the sentence of hell? Legacy Standard Bible You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell? Amplified Bible You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell? Christian Standard Bible “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell? Holman Christian Standard Bible “Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell? American Standard Version Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell? Contemporary English Version You are nothing but snakes and the children of snakes! How can you escape going to hell? English Revised Version Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell? GOD'S WORD® Translation "You snakes! You poisonous snakes! How can you escape being condemned to hell? Good News Translation You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell? International Standard Version You snakes, you children of serpents! How can you escape being condemned to hell? Majority Standard Bible You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? NET Bible You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? New Heart English Bible You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of hell? Webster's Bible Translation Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell? Weymouth New Testament O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna? World English Bible You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna? Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionSerpents! Brood of vipers! How may you escape from the judgment of Gehenna? Berean Literal Bible Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How shall you escape from the sentence of Gehenna? Young's Literal Translation 'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna? Smith's Literal Translation Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell? Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleYou serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell? Catholic Public Domain Version You serpents, you brood of vipers! How will you escape from the judgment of Hell? New American Bible You serpents, you brood of vipers, how can you flee from the judgment of Gehenna? New Revised Standard Version You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell? Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleO you serpents, and seed of scorpions! how can you flee from the judgment of hell? Aramaic Bible in Plain English Snakes! Offspring of vipers! How will you escape from the judgment of Gehenna? NT Translations Anderson New TestamentSerpents, generation of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell? Godbey New Testament Haweis New Testament Ye serpents, ye broods of vipers! how can ye escape from the damnation of hell? Mace New Testament ye serpents, ye brood of vipers, how can ye escape the punishment of Gehenna? Weymouth New Testament O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna? Worrell New Testament Worsley New Testament Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Woes to Scribes and Pharisees…32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers. 33You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? 34Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.… Cross References John 8:44 You 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. Matthew 3:7 But 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? 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? Luke 11:39-52 Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness. / You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well? / But give as alms the things that are within you, and behold, everything will be clean for you. ... John 8:37-47 I know you are Abraham’s descendants, but you are trying to kill Me because My word has no place within you. / I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father.” / “Abraham is our father,” they replied. “If you were children of Abraham,” said Jesus, “you would do the works of Abraham. ... Romans 2:5 But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him. Revelation 20:2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years. Isaiah 59:5 They 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. Isaiah 14:29 Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken. For a viper will spring from the root of the snake, and a flying serpent from its egg. Genesis 3:15 And 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.” Psalm 58:3-5 The wicked are estranged from the womb; the liars go astray from birth. / Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears, / refusing to hear the tune of the charmer who skillfully weaves his spell. Jeremiah 8:17 “For behold, I will send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,” declares the LORD. Ezekiel 2:6 But you, son of man, do not be afraid of them or their words. Do not be afraid, though briers and thorns surround you, and you dwell among scorpions. Do not be afraid of their words or dismayed by their presence, though they are a rebellious house. Ezekiel 3:18-19 If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood. / But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself. Treasury of Scripture You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the damnation of hell? serpents. Matthew 3:7 But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Matthew 12:34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. Matthew 21:34,35 And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the husbandmen, that they might receive the fruits of it… how. Matthew 23:14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Hebrews 2:3 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? Jump to Previous Brood Condemnation Condemned Damnation Escape Gehenna Generation Hell Judgment Kept Offspring Punishment Sentence Sentenced Serpents Snakes VipersJump to Next Brood Condemnation Condemned Damnation Escape Gehenna Generation Hell Judgment Kept Offspring Punishment Sentence Sentenced Serpents Snakes VipersMatthew 23 1. Jesus admonishes the people to follow good doctrine, not bad examples5. His disciples must beware of their ambition. 13. He denounces eight woes against their hypocrisy and blindness, 34. and prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem. You snakes! In this phrase, Jesus uses the metaphor of "snakes" to describe the Pharisees and teachers of the law. The Greek word used here is "ὄφεις" (opheis), which directly translates to "serpents." This term is deeply symbolic, harkening back to the serpent in the Garden of Eden, representing deceit and cunning. In a historical context, snakes were often seen as symbols of treachery and danger. Jesus' use of this term underscores the deceptive and harmful nature of the religious leaders' actions, as they led people away from the true teachings of God. You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? How can ye escape?--Better--to maintain the parallelism with the Baptist's words, which was, we can hardly doubt, designed--How should ye flee from? Verses 33-39. - Declaration of the sentence on these Pharisees and their generation. Verse 33. - Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers; γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν: offspring of vipers. Our Lord repeats the Baptist's denunciation (Matthew 3:7). They were of devilish nature, inherited from their very birth the disposition and character of Satan. So Christ said on another occasion, "Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not in the truth" (John 8:44). How can ye escape? Πῶς φύγητε; the deliberative conjunctive, How shall ye escape? Quo mode fugietis? (Vulgate). There is no emphasis on "can" in the Authorized Version. What hope is there now of your repentance? Can anything soften the hardness of your hearts? The Baptist had spoken more hopefully, "Who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" But now the day of grace is past; the sin against the Holy Ghost is committed; there remaineth only the fearful looking for of judgment. The damnation of hell; literally, the judgment of Gehenna; judicio Gehennae (Vulgate); i.e. the sentence that condemns to eternal death (Matthew 5:22). The phrase is common in the rabbinical writings (see Lightfoot). "Before sinning, we ought to fear lest it be the filling up; after sinning, we should trust in a truly Christian hope that it is not, and repent. This is the only means to escape the damnation of hell; but how rare is this grace after a pharisaical life!" (Quesnel). Hypocrisy is a bar to repentance.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek You snakes!ὄφεις (opheis) Noun - Vocative Masculine Plural Strong's 3789: Probably from optanomai; a snake, figuratively, an artful malicious person, especially Satan. You brood γεννήματα (gennēmata) Noun - Vocative Neuter Plural Strong's 1081: Offspring, child, fruit. From gennao; offspring; by analogy, produce. of vipers! ἐχιδνῶν (echidnōn) Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural Strong's 2191: A serpent, snake, viper. Of uncertain origin; an adder or other poisonous snake. How πῶς (pōs) Adverb Strong's 4459: Adverb from the base of pou; an interrogative particle of manner; in what way?; also as exclamation, how much! will you escape φύγητε (phygēte) Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Active - 2nd Person Plural Strong's 5343: To flee, escape, shun. Apparently a primary verb; to run away; by implication, to shun; by analogy, to vanish. the τῆς (tēs) Article - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. sentence κρίσεως (kriseōs) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 2920: Decision; by extension, a tribunal; by implication, justice. of hell? γεέννης (geennēs) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 1067: Of Hebrew origin; valley of Hinnom; ge-henna, a valley of Jerusalem, used as a name for the place of everlasting punishment. Links Matthew 23:33 NIVMatthew 23:33 NLT Matthew 23:33 ESV Matthew 23:33 NASB Matthew 23:33 KJV Matthew 23:33 BibleApps.com Matthew 23:33 Biblia Paralela Matthew 23:33 Chinese Bible Matthew 23:33 French Bible Matthew 23:33 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: Matthew 23:33 You serpents you offspring of vipers how (Matt. Mat Mt) |