Bible verse

Matthew 23:33

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Matthew 23:33 · BSB

Matthew 23:33 in context

The verses around it, from Matthew 23.

29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

32 Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

34 Because 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.

35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

36 Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling!

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Matthew 23:33 in other translations

KJV

[Ye] serpents, [ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

ASV

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?

ERV

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?

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