18 Bible Verses about Snakes

Now as Paul was gathering a bundle of sticks, and laying them on the fire, a viper coming from the heat, fastened upon his hand. And when the barbarians saw the venomous animal hanging on his hand, they said one to another, Doubtless this man is a murderer, whom though he hath escaped the sea, vengeance hath not suffered to live. But having shaken off the venomous animal into the fire, he felt no harm.read more.
However they expected, that he would have swollen, or suddenly fallen down dead: but after having waited a considerable time, seeing no mischief befall him, they changed their minds and said, that he was a god.

For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they do hurt.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed by serpents.

they shall speak with new tongues: They shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall in no wise hurt them: they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

Behold I give ydu power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy,

Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

What man is there of you, who if his son ask bread, will give him a stone? And if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?

If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone?

But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Ye serpents, ye brood of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Ye brood of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips.

And the great dragon was cast out, the antient serpent, who is called the devil and satan, who deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out unto the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

But I fear lest as the serpent deceived Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from simplicity toward Christ.

And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so must the Son of man be lifted up, That whosoever believeth on him, may not perish, but have everlasting life.