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NASB					Matt 23:33 "You serpents³⁷⁸⁹, ^Ayou brood¹⁰⁸¹ of vipers²¹⁹¹, how⁴⁴⁵⁹ ¹will you escape⁵³⁴³ the ²sentence²⁹²⁰ of ³ ^Bhell¹⁰⁶⁷?
AMPLIFIED 2015					Matt 23:33 "You ¹serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?

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Lit would

Or judgment

Gr Gehenna

Amplified 2015 Translator's Notes:
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The serpent is the creature used by Satan to introduce evil into the Garden of Eden (Gen 3:1ff). Here Jesus continues the imagery of Satan as the serpent working through the religious leaders to continue the propagation of evil through deception, false teaching, and man-made laws and traditions which are given priority over God's law.

NASB Cross References:
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Matt 3:7 ¶ But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for baptism, he said to them, "You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Matt 5:22 "But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court; and whoever says to his brother, 'You good-for-nothing,' shall be guilty before the supreme court; and whoever says, 'You fool,' shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell.

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Greek Heb.

1067

geenna; of Heb. or. [1516 and 2011]; Gehenna, a valley W. and S. of Jer., also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly:--hell(12).

1081

gennêma; from 1080; offspring:--brood(4).

2191

echidna; from echis (a viper, adder); a viper:--viper(1), vipers(4).

2920

krisis; from 2919; a decision, judgment:--court(2), judgment(38), judgments(2), justice(4), sentence(1).

3789

ophis; a prim. word; a snake:--serpent(6), serpents(6), snake(2).

4459

pôs; interrog. adv. from the same as 4214; how?:--how(101), what(1), why(1).

5343

pheugô; a prim. vb.; to flee:--escape(2), escaped(2), fled(5), fled away(2), flee(13), flees(2), ran away(3).

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