Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?

你们这些蛇类、毒蛇之种啊，怎能逃脱地狱的刑罚呢？

你们这些蛇啊，毒蛇的孽种啊，怎能逃脱地狱的惩罚呢？

你们这些蛇啊，毒蛇的孽种啊，怎能逃脱地狱的惩罚呢？

你们这些蛇，这些毒蛇的后代啊，你们怎能逃脱地狱的刑罚呢？

你们这些蛇，这些毒蛇所生的啊，你们怎能逃脱地狱的刑罚呢？

“你们这些蛇类，这些毒蛇的子孙！你们怎么能逃避地狱的惩罚呢？

你們這些蛇類、毒蛇之種啊，怎能逃脫地獄的刑罰呢？

你們這些蛇啊，毒蛇的孽種啊，怎能逃脫地獄的懲罰呢？

你們這些蛇啊，毒蛇的孽種啊，怎能逃脫地獄的懲罰呢？

你們這些蛇，這些毒蛇的後代啊，你們怎能逃脫地獄的刑罰呢？

你們這些蛇，這些毒蛇所生的啊，你們怎能逃脫地獄的刑罰呢？

蛇啊，毒蛇的種啊，你們怎能逃避地獄的定罪呢？

「你們這些蛇類，這些毒蛇的子孫！你們怎麼能逃避地獄的懲罰呢？

蛇乎、蝮類歟、安能逭地獄之刑乎、

噫、蛇蝮之類、安能逭地獄刑乎、

蛇乎、蝮所產乎、爾何能逃磯很拿之刑乎、

嗟爾虺蝮之種將何以逃於地獄之刑乎？

“ You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?

“ You nest of poisonous snakes! How will you escape from being sentenced to hell?

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

“ Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

You snakes, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?

Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?

“ Snakes! Brood of vipers! How can you escape being condemned to hell?

[ Ye] serpents,[ ye] generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

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

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.

But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize, he denounced them.“ You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed.“ Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?

For you are the children of your father the devil, and you love to do the evil things he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his character; for he is a liar and the father of lies.

When the crowds came to John for baptism, he said,“ You brood of snakes! Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?

But I say, if you are even angry with someone, you are subject to judgment! If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of the fires of hell.

“ But you— come here, you witches’ children, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!Whom do you mock, making faces and sticking out your tongues? You children of sinners and liars!

This great dragon— the ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, the one deceiving the whole world— was thrown down to the earth with all his angels.

So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak?

And I will cause hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.”

Just think how much worse the punishment will be for those who have trampled on the Son of God, and have treated the blood of the covenant, which made us holy, as if it were common and unholy, and have insulted and disdained the Holy Spirit who brings God’s mercy to us.

These wicked people are born sinners; even from birth they have lied and gone their own way.They spit venom like deadly snakes; they are like cobras that refuse to listen,ignoring the tunes of the snake charmers, no matter how skillfully they play.

But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent.

“ What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.

Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the One who is speaking. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly not escape if we reject the One who speaks to us from heaven!

At the time of the grape harvest, he sent his servants to collect his share of the crop.But the farmers grabbed his servants, beat one, killed one, and stoned another.