Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

What father among you, if your son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead of a fish?

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

And let us not put Christ to the test, as some of them did, and were destroyed by snakes.

“I am sending you out like sheep surrounded by wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.

they will pick up snakes with their hands, and whatever poison they drink will not harm them; they will place their hands on the sick and they will be well.”

Then the serpent spouted water like a river out of his mouth after the woman in an attempt to sweep her away by a flood,

He seized the dragon – the ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan – and tied him up for a thousand years.

Look, I have given you authority to tread on snakes and scorpions and on the full force of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.

But I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by his treachery, your minds may be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

For the power of the horses resides in their mouths and in their tails, because their tails are like snakes, having heads that inflict injuries.

So that huge dragon – the ancient serpent, the one called the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world – was thrown down to the earth, and his angels along with him.

But the woman was given the two wings of a giant eagle so that she could fly out into the wilderness, to the place God prepared for her, where she is taken care of – away from the presence of the serpent – for a time, times, and half a time.