So he said to the crowds that were coming out to be baptized by him, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to run from the wrath that is coming?
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5Every ravine will be filled in, every mountain and hill leveled; the crooked roads will be made straight and the rough ones smooth, 6and all flesh will see the salvation of God.” 7So he said to the crowds that were coming out to be baptized by him, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to run from the wrath that is coming? 8Produce fruit worthy of repentance, and do not start telling yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ I tell you, God can raise up children for Abraham out of these stones. 9The axe is already lying at the root of the trees; every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”