Psalm 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips.
Psalm 58:4
Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,
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.
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent beguiled and deceived me, and I ate [from the forbidden tree].”
Psalm 52:2-3
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 59:7
Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”
Psalm 64:3-4
Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Proverbs 23:32
At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.
Isaiah 59:3-5
For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing];
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Isaiah 59:13
Rebelling against and denying the Lord,
Turning away from [following] our God,
Speaking oppression and revolt,
Conceiving and muttering from the heart lying words.
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.
Jeremiah 9:5
“Everyone deceives and mocks his neighbor
And does not speak the truth.
They have taught their tongue to speak lies;
They exhaust themselves with sin and cruelty.
Matthew 12:34
Romans 3:13-14
“Their throat is an open grave;
They [habitually] deceive with their tongues.”
“The venom of asps is beneath their lips.”
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that, even as the serpent beguiled Eve by his cunning, your minds may be corrupted and led away from the simplicity of [your sincere and] pure devotion to Christ.
James 3:6-8
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
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Sharpened
Like a serpent
Adders
General references
Bible References
Sharpened
Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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.
Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;
Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,
For they say, “Who hears us?”
Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword.
They aim venomous words as arrows,
There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword,
But the tongue of the wise brings healing.
For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing];
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.
“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.
Like a serpent
At the last it bites like a serpent
And stings like a viper.
Adders
Their poison is like the venom of a serpent;
They are like the deaf horned viper that stops up its ear,
“Their throat is an open grave;
They [habitually] deceive with their tongues.”
“The venom of asps is beneath their lips.”
General references
Like a club and a sword and a piercing arrow
Is a man who testifies falsely against his neighbor (acquaintance).