Nave’s Topical Bible
Serpent
35 Bible references
Sub-topics and passages
- Satan appears to Eve in the form of
- Subtlety of
- Curse upon
- Feeds upon the dust
- Unfit for food
- Venom of
Deuteronomy 32:24,33; Job 20:16; Psalms 58:4; Psalms 140:3; Proverbs 23:31-32; Acts 28:5-6
- The staff of Moses transformed into
- Fiery (poisonous), sent as a plague upon the Israelites
- The wound of, miraculously healed by looking upon the bronze Snake, erected by Moses
- The charming of
- Mentioned in Solomon's riddle
- Constriction of
- Sea serpent
- The seventy disciples (the best mss have "seventy-two") endued with power over
- The apostles given power over
- FIGURATIVE
Bible verses about “Serpent”
The first verses cited, in the King James Version.
- Genesis 3:1Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
- Genesis 3:2And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
- Genesis 3:3But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
- Genesis 3:4And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die:
- Genesis 3:5For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
- Genesis 3:6And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
- Genesis 3:7And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
- Genesis 3:8And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:9And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?
- Genesis 3:10And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
- Genesis 3:11And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
- Genesis 3:12And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
- Genesis 3:13And the Lord God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
- Genesis 3:14And the Lord God said unto the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life:
- Genesis 3:15And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- 2 Corinthians 11:3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
- Ecclesiastes 10:8He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it; and whoso breaketh an hedge, a serpent shall bite him.
- Matthew 10:16Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- Genesis 49:17Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
- Isaiah 65:25The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
- Micah 7:17They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee.
- Matthew 7:10Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?
- Deuteronomy 32:24They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
- Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Job 20:16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Psalms 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
- Psalms 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
- Proverbs 23:31Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
- Proverbs 23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- Acts 28:5And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
- Acts 28:6Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
- Exodus 4:3And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses fled from before it.
- Exodus 7:15Get thee unto Pharaoh in the morning; lo, he goeth out unto the water; and thou shalt stand by the river’s brink against he come; and the rod which was turned to a serpent shalt thou take in thine hand.
- Numbers 21:6And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
- Numbers 21:7Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord, and against thee; pray unto the Lord, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
- Deuteronomy 8:15Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
- 1 Corinthians 10:9Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
- Numbers 21:8And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
- Numbers 21:9And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
- Psalms 58:5Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.