Psalm 140:3

Prayer For Rescue

² [and men] who devise mischievous things in their heart. They gather themselves continually together for war. ³ They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent. Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of a wicked man. Preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to thrust aside my steps.

Selah

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops her ear,

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions. I lay among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Genesis 3:13

And LORD God said to the woman, What is this thou have done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I ate.

Psalm 52:2-3

Thy tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, for [they say], Who hears?

Psalm 64:3-4

who have whet their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,

Proverbs 12:18

There is he who speaks rashly like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

Isaiah 59:3-5

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59:13

transgressing and denying LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue--their bow--for falsehood, and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says LORD.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will deceive each one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Matthew 12:34

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Romans 3:13-14

Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they deceive. The poison of asps is under their lips,

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent enticed Eve by his craftiness, so your thoughts might be corrupted from the simplicity in the Christ.

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Thus, the tongue is made to lead among our body-parts, defiling the whole body, and setting the cycle of nature on fire, and being set on fire by hell.