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Luke 3:7

Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

KJV

Ἔλεγεν οὖν τοῖς ἐκπορευομένοις ὄχλοις βαπτισθῆναι ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ· γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν, τίς ὑπέδειξεν ὑμῖν φυγεῖν ἀπὸ τῆς μελλούσης ὀργῆς;

Greek NT

Dicebat ergo ad turbas quæ exibant ut baptizarentur ab ipso : Genimina viperarum, quis ostendit vobis fugere a ventura ira ?

Vulgate

He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to be baptized of him, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

ASV

He said therefore to the multitudes that went forth to be baptized by him: Ye offspring of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
βαπτίζω
baptizo
verb · 77×
γέννημα
gennema
noun · 9×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
μέλλω
mello
verb · 110×
οὖν
oun
conjunction · 489×
τίς
tis
interrogative_pronoun · 533×
φεύγω
pheugo
verb · 30×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×
ἐκπορεύομαι
ekporeuomai
verb · 33×
ἔχιδνα
echidna
noun · 5×
ὀργή
orge
noun · 36×
o
article · 19778×
ὄχλος
ochlos
noun · 173×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
ὑποδείκνυμι
upodeiknumi
verb · 6×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1John 3:8 — He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
  • 1Thess 1:10 — And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
  • 1Thess 1:10 — And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.
  • Acts 13:10 — And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
  • Ezek 16:3 — And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite.
  • Gen 3:15 — And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
  • Heb 6:18 — That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
  • Isa 57:3 — But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the whore.
  • Isa 59:5 — They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
  • John 3:23 — And John also was baptizing in Aenon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized.
  • John 8:44 — Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
  • Luke 1:17 — And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the L
  • Matt 3:5 — Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the region round about Jordan,
  • Matt 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?
  • Matt 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.
  • Matt 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.
  • Matt 23:33 — Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
  • Matt 23:33 — Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
  • Ps 58:4 — Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;