Matthew 23:33
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?In other versions
Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?
ASV
You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?
BBE
Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
DBY
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
WEB
`Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
YLT
All of you serpents, all of you generation of vipers, how can all of you escape the damnation of hell?
ENG
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
WBT
You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
BSB
In context
31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.