Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

Bible References

General references

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 55:21

The words of his mouth were smoother than butter,
But his heart was hostile;
His words were softer than oil,
Yet they were drawn swords.
Psalm 57:4

My life is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe out fire—
The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 120:3

What shall be given to you, and what more shall be done to you,
You deceitful tongue?—
Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.
Jeremiah 9:3

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.
James 3:6
And the tongue is [in a sense] a fire, the very world of injustice and unrighteousness; the tongue is set among our members as that which contaminates the entire body, and sets on fire the course of our life [the cycle of man’s existence], and is itself set on fire by hell (Gehenna).