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
Thy tongue will purpose mischief as a razor being sharpened, working deceit.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is in the midst of lions: I shall lie down with the flaming, the sons of man, their teeth spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Psalm 59:7
Behold, they will gush out with their mouth: swords in their lips: for who heard?
Psalm 64:3
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:
Proverbs 12:18
There is he talking idly as the piercings of the sword: and the tongue of the wise is healing.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands were polluted with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips spake falsehood, your tongue will mutter evil.
Jeremiah 9:3
And they will bend their tongue, their bow, a lie: and they were not strong for faithfulness upon the land; for from evil to evil they went forth, and they knew me not, says Jehovah.
James 3:6
(And the tongue a fire, a world of iniquity: so the tongue is placed in our members, defiling the whole body, and burning the wheel of creation; and burned by hell.
Like a serpent
Genesis 3:13
And Jehovah God will say to the woman, What is this thou didst? And the woman will say, The serpent deceived me and I shall eat.
Proverbs 23:32
Its latter state it will bite as serpent, and sting as a viper.
Matthew 12:34
O generation of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the month speaks.
2 Corinthians 11:3
And I am afraid lest, as the serpent completely deceived Eve in his craft, so your thoughts be corrupted from the simplicity which in Christ.
Adders
Psalm 58:4
Wrath to them according to the likeness of the wrath of a serpent: as the deaf adder will stop its ear;
Romans 3:13
Their throat an opened tomb; with their tongues have they used deceit; the poison of asps under their lips:
General references
Proverbs 25:18
A mallet and a sword and an arrow sharpened, the man answering against his neighbor testimony of falsehood.