30 Bible Verses About Snakes

“Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, ‘Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?’”

“So the Lord God said to the serpent, ‘Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and all wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life.’”

“Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.”

“So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.”

“He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.”

“Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,”

“They make their tongues as sharp as a serpent’s; the poison of vipers is on their lips.”

“In the end it bites like a snake and poisons like a viper.”

“Whoever digs a pit may fall into it; whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.”

“The infant will play near the cobra’s den, and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s nest.”

“Do not rejoice, all you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken; from the root of that snake will spring up a viper, its fruit will be a darting, venomous serpent.”

“The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain,’ says the Lord.”

“See, I will send venomous snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they will bite you,’ declares the Lord.”

“Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.”

“But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: ‘You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?’”

“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.”

“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?”

“They will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well.”

“I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you.”

“Which of you fathers, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?”

“Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand.”

“When the islanders saw the snake hanging from his hand, they said to each other, ‘This man must be a murderer; for though he escaped from the sea, the goddess Justice has not allowed him to live.’”

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit. The poison of vipers is on their lips.”

“We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.”

“The great dragon was hurled down—that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.”

“The woman was given the two wings of a great eagle, so that she might fly to the place prepared for her in the wilderness, where she would be taken care of for a time, times and half a time, out of the serpent’s reach.”

“Then from his mouth the serpent spewed water like a river, to overtake the woman and sweep her away with the torrent.”

“He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan, and bound him for a thousand years.”

“He threw him into the Abyss, and locked and sealed it over him, to keep him from deceiving the nations anymore until the thousand years were ended. After that, he must be set free for a short time.”

“And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.”