Psalm 140:3

Prayer For Rescue

² who plan evil things in their heart and stir up wars continually. ³ They sharpen their tongues as a serpent;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.
⁴ Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have planned to trip up my feet.

Selah

Psalm 58:4

They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Psalm 57:4

My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts-- the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Genesis 3:13

Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Psalm 52:2-3

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

Psalm 59:7

There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips-- for "Who," they think,"will hear us?"

Psalm 64:3-4

who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows,

Proverbs 12:18

There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.

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 the LORD, and turning back from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone deceives his neighbor, and no one speaks the truth; they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they weary themselves committing iniquity.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Romans 3:13-14

"Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive." "The venom of asps is under their lips."

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.