Bible verses about "snakes" | NSB

¹¹ that no advantage may be gained over us by Satan: for we are not ignorant of his devices.

¹⁴ »As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, so the Son of man must also be lifted up.

⁸ Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: ⁹ »Pharaoh will say: ‘Give me a sign to prove that God has sent you.’ Tell Aaron: ‘Take your shepherd’s staff and throw it down in front of Pharaoh. It will become a large snake.’ ¹⁰ Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh. They did as Jehovah commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials. It became a large snake. ¹¹ Then Pharaoh sent for his wise men and sorcerers. These Egyptian magicians did the same thing using their magic spells. ¹² Each of them threw his staff down. They all became large snakes. But Aaron’s staff swallowed theirs. ¹³ Pharaoh continued to be stubborn. Just as Jehovah had predicted, he would not listen to them.

³² In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like a viper.

¹⁷ »They will lick up the dust like a serpent. They will come trembling out of their hole like crawling things of the earth. They will approach Jehovah our God with fear and be afraid because of you.«

⁸ Jehovah said to Moses: »Make a snake and put it on a pole. Anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.« ⁹ Moses made a copper snake and put it on a pole. People looked at the copper snake after they were bitten and lived.

³ Paul gathered an armful of sticks and put them on the fire. A snake came out on account of the heat and fastened itself to his hand. ⁴ The natives saw the snake hanging on Paul’s hand and said to one another: »This man must be a murderer, but Fate will not let him live, even though he escaped from the sea.« ⁵ But Paul shook the snake off into the fire without being harmed at all.

¹⁹ »Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall in any way hurt you.

¹⁶ »I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and harmless as doves.

¹ Now the serpent was craftier than any of the wild animals Jehovah God had made. He said to the woman: »Did God really say, you must not eat from any tree in the garden?« ² The woman said to the serpent: »We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden. ³ ‘»However, God did say: ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not touch it, or you will die.’« ⁴ »You will not die,« the serpent said to the woman. ⁵ »God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened. Then you will be like God, knowing good and evil.« ⁶ When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it. ⁷ Then the eyes of both of them were opened. They realized they were naked. They sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves. ⁸ The man and his wife heard the sound (voice) of Jehovah God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day. They hid from Jehovah, among the trees of the garden. ⁹ But Jehovah God called to the man: »Where are you?« ¹⁰ He (Adam) answered: »I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.« ¹¹ And he said: »Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?« ¹² Adam said: »The woman you put here with me gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it.« ¹³ Then Jehovah God said to the Eve: »What is this you have done?« The woman answered: »The serpent deceived me, and I ate.« ¹⁴ So Jehovah God said to the serpent: »Because you have done this you are cursed above all the livestock and all the wild animals! You will crawl on your belly and you will eat dust all the days of your life. ¹⁵ »And I will put enmity (hostility) (hatred) between you and the woman, and between your offspring (seed) and hers. He will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) you in the head, and you will bruise (overwhelm) (crush) him in the heel.« (Romans 16:20) ¹⁶ He said to the woman: »I will greatly increase your pains in childbirth; with pain you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.« ¹⁷ He said to Adam: »Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat of it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. ¹⁸ »It will produce thorns and thistles for you. You will eat the plants of the field. ¹⁹ »You will eat your food by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground. You came from the ground. For dust you are and to dust you will return.« ²⁰ Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living. ²¹ Jehovah God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them. ²² Jehovah said: »The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.« ²³ Therefore Jehovah God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken. ²⁴ After he drove the man out, he placed on the east side of the Garden of Eden cherubim and a flaming sword flashing back and forth to guard the way to the tree of life.

¹⁸ »They will pick up and handle serpents. Deadly drink will not hurt them. They will lay hands on the sick, and they will recover.«