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Want to know what the Bible says about Serpents? Here are 35 Bible verses about Serpents from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Job 26:13 NIV
By his breath the skies became fair;
    his hand pierced the gliding serpent.
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Genesis 3:1 NIV
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?
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Matthew 10:16 NIV
“I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
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Isaiah 27:1 NIV
In that day,
the Lord will punish with his sword
    his fierce, great and powerful sword—
Leviathan the gliding serpent,
    Leviathan the coiling serpent;
he will slay the monster of the sea.
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Matthew 7:10 NIV
Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?
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Ecclesiastes 10:8 NIV
Whoever digs a pit may fall into it;
    whoever breaks through a wall may be bitten by a snake.
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Amos 5:19 NIV
It will be as though a man fled from a lion
    only to meet a bear,
as though he entered his house
    and rested his hand on the wall
    only to have a snake bite him.
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Deuteronomy 8:15 NIV
He led you through the vast and dreadful wilderness, that thirsty and waterless land, with its venomous snakes and scorpions. He brought you water out of hard rock.
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Isaiah 59:5 NIV
They hatch the eggs of vipers
    and spin a spider’s web.
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
    and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
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Genesis 3:14 NIV
So the Lord God said to the serpent, “Because you have done this,
“Cursed are you above all livestock
    and all wild animals!
You will crawl on your belly
    and you will eat dust
    all the days of your life.
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Isaiah 65:25 NIV
The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox,
    and dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
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Micah 7:17 NIV
They will lick dust like a snake,
    like creatures that crawl on the ground.
They will come trembling out of their dens;
    they will turn in fear to the Lord our God
    and will be afraid of you.
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Deuteronomy 32:24 NIV
I will send wasting famine against them,
    consuming pestilence and deadly plague;
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,
    the venom of vipers that glide in the dust.
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Psalm 58:4 NIV
Their venom is like the venom of a snake,
    like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
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James 3:7 NIV
All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind,
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Ecclesiastes 10:11 NIV
If a snake bites before it is charmed,
    the charmer receives no fee.
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Genesis 49:17 NIV
Dan will be a snake by the roadside,
    a viper along the path,
that bites the horse’s heels
    so that its rider tumbles backward.
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Genesis 3:15 NIV
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.”
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Numbers 21:6 NIV
Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.
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1 Corinthians 10:9 NIV
We should not test Christ, as some of them did—and were killed by snakes.
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