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
Your tongue plans destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceit.
Psalm 57:4
My soul [is] among lions. I lie down [among those who] devour-- the children of humankind whose teeth [are] spears and arrows and whose tongues [are] sharp swords.
Psalm 59:7
Look, they pour out [talk] with their mouth. Swords [are] on their lips, for [they say], "Who hears?"
Psalm 64:3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword. They bend [their bow to shoot] their arrows--bitter words,
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly, like the thrust of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue speaks wickedness.
Jeremiah 9:3
And they bend their tongue [like] their bow, [for] falsehood and not truth is superior in the land, for they go forth from evil to evil, and they do not know me," {declares} Yahweh.
James 3:6
And the tongue [is] a fire! The world of unrighteousness, the tongue, is set among our members, defiling the whole body and setting on fire {the course of human existence}, being set on fire by hell.
Like a serpent
Genesis 3:13
Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What [is] this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Proverbs 23:32
{In the end}, it will bite like a serpent, and it will sting like an adder.
Matthew 12:34
Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say good things [when you] are evil? For from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds may be led astray from the sincerity and the purity of [devotion] to Christ.
Adders
Psalm 58:4
Their venom [is] like snake venom; [They are] like a deaf viper that closes its ear
Romans 3:13
Their throat [is] an opened grave; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps [is] under their lips,
General references
Proverbs 25:18
[Like] a club and sword and a sharp arrow [is] a man who bears false witness against his neighbor.