Matthew 23:33

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“You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?or, Hell”

— WEB

“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?”

— KJV

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

— ASV

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Commentary

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?--In thus, at the end of His ministry, recalling the words of the Baptist at the outset of his, our Lord would seem to intimate that the only difference between their condemnation now and then was, that now they were ripe for their doom, which they were not then.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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