42 Verses About Serpent from 19 Books

1 Corinthians 10:9

Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Kings 18:4

He removed the high places, and broke the pillars, and cut down the Asherah: and he broke in pieces the bronze serpent that Moses had made; for to those days the children of Israel did burn incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.

Amos 9:3

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

Deuteronomy 8:15

who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, [in which were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who brought you forth water out of the rock of flint;

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the poison of serpents, The cruel venom of asps.

Exodus 7:9

"When Pharaoh speaks to you, saying, 'Perform a miracle!' then you shall tell Aaron, 'Take your rod, and cast it down before Pharaoh, that it become a serpent.'"



Exodus 7:10

Moses and Aaron went in to 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.

Exodus 7:12

For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

Exodus 7:15

Go to Pharaoh in the morning. Behold, he goes out to the water; and you shall stand by the river's bank to meet him; and the rod which was turned to a serpent you shall take in your hand.

Genesis 3:1

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

Genesis 3:2

The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,

Genesis 3:4

The serpent said to the woman, "You won't surely die,

Genesis 3:13

the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."



Genesis 3:14

the LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.

Genesis 49:17

Dan will be a serpent in the way, an adder in the path, That bites the horse's heels, so that his rider falls backward.

Isaiah 14:29

Don't rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent's root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day, the LORD with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Isaiah 30:6

The burden of the animals of the South. Through the land of trouble and anguish, of the lioness and the lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they carry their riches on the shoulders of young donkeys, and their treasures on the humps of camels, to an unprofitable people.

Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," says the LORD.

Jeremiah 8:17

For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says the LORD.



Jeremiah 46:22

The sound of it shall go like the serpent; for they shall march with an army, and come against her with axes, as wood cutters.

Job 26:13

By his Spirit the heavens are garnished. His hand has pierced the swift serpent.

John 3:14

As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,

Luke 10:19

Behold, I give you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will in any way hurt you.

Mark 16:18

they will take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it will in no way hurt them; they will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover."

Matthew 7:10

Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

Matthew 10:16

"Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.



Matthew 23:33

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Micah 7:17

They will lick the dust like a serpent. Like crawling things of the earth they shall come trembling out of their dens. They will come with fear to the LORD our God, and will be afraid because of you.

Numbers 21:6

the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

Numbers 21:7

The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against you. Pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.

Numbers 21:8

the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live."

Numbers 21:9

Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.

Proverbs 30:19

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



Psalms 91:13

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

Psalms 140:3

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.

Revelation 9:19

For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.

Revelation 12:9

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Revelation 12:14

Two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness to her place, so that she might be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Revelation 12:15

The serpent spewed water out of his mouth after the woman like a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

Revelation 20:2

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,





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