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Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

A venomous serpent

• Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
• Job 20:14 yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
• Job 20:16 He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
• Isaiah 11:8 The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
• Romans 3:13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

Venom of, illustrates the speech of the wicked

• Psalm 140:3 They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
• Romans 3:13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

Injurious effects of wine

• Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
• Proverbs 23:32 In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Deprived of venom, illustrates conversion

• Isaiah 11:8–9 The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.