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 plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Psalm 57:4
My soul is among lions. I lie 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 spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, "For," they say, "who hears us?"
Psalm 64:3
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
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
They bend their tongue, [as it were] their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don't know me, says Yahweh.
James 3:6
And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
Like a serpent
Genesis 3:13
Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Proverbs 23:32
In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
Matthew 12:34
You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
Adders
Psalm 58:4
Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
Romans 3:13
"Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit." "The poison of vipers is under their lips;"
General references
Proverbs 25:18
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.