Matthew 3:7
Greek Text— Matthew 3:7But 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?
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And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed: that he might destroy the works of the devil.
The good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings out that which is good, and the evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings out that which is evil, for out of the abundance of the heart, his mouth speaks.
The dragon grew angry with the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her offspring, who keep God’s commandments and hold Jesus’ testimony.
But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.
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.
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent out his Son, born to a woman, born under the law,
Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin will conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
The serpent said to the woman, “You won’t really die,
There is a generation that is pure in their own eyes, yet are not washed from their filthiness.
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.
For many nations and great kings will make bondservants of them, even of them. I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.”
“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Go out of the land of the Chaldeans, and be as the male goats before the flocks.
“Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and shall give birth to a son. They shall call his name Immanuel;” which is, being interpreted, “God with us.”
Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.
“When you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Most certainly, I tell you, they have received their reward.
You do the works of your father.” They said to him, “We were not born of sexual immorality. We have one Father, God.”
You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.
how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,
who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
I heard another voice from heaven, saying, “Come out of her, my people, that you have no participation in her sins, and that you don’t receive of her plagues,
As the proverb of the ancients says, ‘Out of the wicked comes wickedness;’ but my hand will not be on you.
Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
How long will you go here and there, you backsliding daughter? For Yahweh has created a new thing in the earth: a woman will encompass a man.”
Shout against her all around. She has submitted herself. Her bulwarks have fallen. Her walls have been thrown down, for it is the vengeance of Yahweh. Take vengeance on her. As she has done, do to her.
Listen to those who flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance of Yahweh our God, the vengeance of his temple.
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
the field is the world; and the good seed, these are the children of the Kingdom; and the darnel weeds are the children of the evil one.
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions.
The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, “He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
whom God raised up, having freed him from the agony of death, because it was not possible that he should be held by it.
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
This continued for two years, so that all those who lived in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Men and brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. Concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!”
and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.
It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”
Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
and didn’t know her sexually until she had given birth to her firstborn son. He named him Jesus.
On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,
that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.
Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.
It was given to him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. Authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation was given to him.
The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.
Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”
But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him.
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.”
Whatever goes on its belly, and whatever goes on all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep on the earth, them you shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
The king of Israel sent to the place which the man of God told him and warned him of; and he saved himself there, not once or twice.
Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.
The words of the wise are like goads; and like nails well fastened are words from the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
“But draw near here, you sons of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes.
They hatch adders’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web. He who eats of their eggs dies; and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.
Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Yahweh has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
“Flee out of the middle of Babylon! Everyone save his own life! Don’t be cut off in her iniquity; for it is the time of Yahweh’s vengeance. He will render to her a recompense.
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and warn them from me.
and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your mother was a Hittite.
“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel, and tell them, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Is it to inquire of me that you have come? As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will not be inquired of by you.” ’
For I tell you that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, there is no way you will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.
Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”
Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.
But the Pharisees, when they heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, gathered themselves together.
He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”
They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.
Some Sadducees, who say that there is no resurrection, came to him. They asked him, saying,
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.
Jesus answered, “Faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.”
When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, “This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
The Pharisee stood and prayed to himself like this: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, extortionists, unrighteous, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.
The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.
I say the things which I have seen with my Father; and you also do the things which you have seen with your father.”
You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,
and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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.
We proclaim him, admonishing every man and teaching every man in all wisdom, that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus;
By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.