Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
Sharpened
Like a serpent
Adders
General references
Bible References
Sharpened
Psalm 52:2
Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
Psalm 59:7
See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?
Psalm 64:3
Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;
Proverbs 12:18
There are some whose uncontrolled talk is like the wounds of a sword, but the tongue of the wise makes one well again.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
Jeremiah 9:3
Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.
Like a serpent
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.
Proverbs 23:32
In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
Matthew 12:34
You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.
Adders
Psalm 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;
Romans 3:13
Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:
General references
Proverbs 25:18
One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.