Snakes

Behold, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy. Nothing will harm you.

Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

Paul gathered a bundle of sticks, and as he laid them on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself to his hand. …

Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”

So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?