Psalm 140:3

Prayer For Rescue

² Who devise evil in their heart; they are continually gathered together for war. ³ They sharpen their tongues as a serpent;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.
⁴ Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the man of violence, who have purposed to overthrow my steps.

Selah

Psalm 58:4

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

Psalm 57:4

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

Genesis 3:13

Then the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast 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 who, say they, doth hear?

Psalm 64:3-4

Who whet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words

Proverbs 12:18

There are those that speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is medicine.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last 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 pronounce lies; your tongue speaks evil.

Isaiah 59:13

To rebel and to lie against the LORD, and to depart away from our God; the speaking of libel and rebellion, to conceive, and to speak from the heart words of falsehood,

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies, but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil, and they did not recognize me, said the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:5

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

Matthew 12:34

O generation 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 sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips,

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear that as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness, so your senses should be corrupted in some way, and ye should fall from the simplicity that is in the Christ.

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of our nature; and it is set on fire of hell.