“ You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to 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 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! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of 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 vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them:“ You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him,“ You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister,‘ Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says,‘ You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.

“ But you— come here, you children of a sorceress, you offspring of adulterers and prostitutes!Who are you mocking? At whom do you sneer and stick out your tongue? Are you not a brood of rebels, the offspring of liars?

The great dragon was hurled down— that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray. He was hurled to the earth, and his angels with him.

how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? This salvation, which was first announced by the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard him.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

How much more severely do you think someone deserves to be punished who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, who has treated as an unholy thing the blood of the covenant that sanctified them, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?

Even from birth the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward, spreading lies.Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,that will not heed the tune of the charmer, however skillful the enchanter may be.

But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

“ Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

See to it that you do not refuse him who speaks. If they did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, how much less will we, if we turn away from him who warns us from heaven?

When the harvest time approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.“ The tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.