Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

General references

Bible References

Sharpened

Psalm 52:2
Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for [they say], Who hears?
Psalm 64:3
who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
Proverbs 12:18
There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.

Like a serpent

Genesis 3:13
And LORD God said to the woman, What is this thou have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.
Matthew 12:34
Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.

Adders

Psalm 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear,
Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,

General references

Proverbs 25:18
A man who bears FALSE witness against his neighbor is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.