Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Sharpened

Adders

Bible References

Sharpened

James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire, the tongue proves a very world of mischief among our members, staining the whole of the body and setting fire to the round circle of existence with a flame fed by hell.

Like a serpent

Matthew 12:34
You brood of vipers, how can you speak good when you are evil? For the mouth utters what the heart is full of.
2 Corinthians 11:3
but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.

Adders

Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open grave, they are treacherous with their tongues, the venom of an asp lies under their lips.