Bible Verses About Snakes
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for snakes, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,580 votes, led by Luke 10:19. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Snakes
Luke 10:19193 votes
Behold, I give unto you power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy: and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Mark 16:18183 votes
They shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.
Genesis 3:1-24161 votes
Now 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?
Matthew 10:16161 votes
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Micah 7:1798 votes
They 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.
Proverbs 23:3293 votes
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
Acts 28:3-593 votes
And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
John 3:1478 votes
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:
Genesis 3:1573 votes
And 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.
Genesis 3:172 votes
Now 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?
Numbers 21:8-967 votes
And 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.
Exodus 7:8-1363 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
Genesis 3:1462 votes
And 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:
Matthew 23:3362 votes
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Acts 28:356 votes
And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.
Numbers 21:655 votes
And the Lord sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
Isaiah 30:654 votes
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Matthew 3:752 votes
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
2 Corinthians 2:1150 votes
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
1 Corinthians 10:949 votes
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.
Deuteronomy 8:1546 votes
Who 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;
Revelation 12:946 votes
And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.
Mark 16:17-1845 votes
And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;
Psalms 140:343 votes
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
Matthew 12:3443 votes
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
What does the Bible say about snakes?
Readers most often cite Luke 10:19 on the subject of snakes. Across 4,580 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Mark 16:18, Genesis 3:1-24, Matthew 10:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.