Bible Verses About The Ophites And Gnostic Heresy

Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Serpent imagery not central to Ophite teaching, but part of the larger topic search.

Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

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And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

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Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

Primary Genesis serpent text for the later debate.

And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

Core bronze-serpent passage discussed by early Christians.

For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the LORD.

Serpent imagery of judgment; related but not central.

Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

Serpent poison imagery; background only.

For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.

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They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

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Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

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Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

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And the serpent cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood.

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In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

Additional serpent judgment text, useful background.

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

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But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

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They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

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Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

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And to him they had regard, because that of long time he had bewitched them with sorceries.

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So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.

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And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

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Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

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And their word will eat as doth a canker: of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus;

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But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Serpent deceiving Eve, often linked by Christians to heresy.

But unto you I say, and unto the rest in Thyatira, as many as have not this doctrine, and which have not known the depths of Satan, as they speak; I will put upon you none other burden.

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But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication.

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Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

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And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

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But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith.

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If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

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For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision:

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