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Snakes
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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.
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.”
“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’” — read the full passage →
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 Yahweh our God, and will be afraid because of you.
But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. — read the full passage →
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”
Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’”
Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.” — read the full passage →
Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
Yahweh God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. You shall go on your belly and you shall eat dust all the days of your life.
But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died.
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.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan; for we are not ignorant of his schemes.
Neither let us test the Lord, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.
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.
who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages; — read the full passage →
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.
As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, — read the full passage →
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.
The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.
For they each cast down their rods, and they became serpents: but Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.
You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.
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,
For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me, he has crushed me, he has made me an empty vessel, he has, like a monster, swallowed me up, he has filled his maw with my delicacies; he has cast me out.
for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of brass, he lived.
These signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new languages;
You shall not tempt Yahweh your God, as you tempted him in Massah.
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.
Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
He who digs a pit may fall into it; and whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
Dan will be a serpent on the trail, an adder in the path, That bites the horse’s heels, so that his rider falls backward.
Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God, and Timothy our brother, — read the full passage →
In that day, Yahweh 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.
The nursing child will play near a cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den.
Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.
For everything spoken by God is possible.”
The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t surely die,
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him. — read the full passage →
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 in those days the children of Israel burned incense to it; and he called it Nehushtan.
A great sign was seen in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. — read the full passage →
But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the fire, a viper came out because of the heat, and fastened on his hand. — read the full passage →
The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
However he shook off the creature into the fire, and wasn’t harmed.
Jesus said to him, “Again, it is written, ‘You shall not test the Lord, your God.’”
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 Yahweh.
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.
Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. It shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.
I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”
“This is my commandment, that you love one another, even as I have loved you.
Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.
For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, says Yahweh.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →
For I desire to have you know how greatly I struggle for you, and for those at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh; — read the full passage →
But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Looking at them, Jesus said, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.
Peter said to them, “Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
I will execute great vengeance on them with wrathful rebukes; and they shall know that I am Yahweh, when I shall lay my vengeance on them.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”
Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world.He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
A second likewise is this, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.
She doted on their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of donkeys, and whose issue is like the issue of horses.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.
Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.
Now to him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.
Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.
“But I tell you who hear: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you,
But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The house of the wicked will be overthrown, but the tent of the upright will flourish. — read the full passage →
I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ living in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
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