Psalm 140:3

Prayer For Rescue

² who devised evil things in the heart; they are always gathered for war. ³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ O Jehovah, keep me from the hands of the wicked; keep me from the violent man who purposed to trip up my steps.

Selah

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a snake; like the deaf adder, he stops his ear,

Psalm 57:4

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

Genesis 3:13

And Jehovah God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

Psalm 52:2-3

Your tongue devises evil, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they bellow out with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, Who hears?

Psalm 64:3-4

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, they tread their arrows, even a bitter word,

Proverbs 12:18

There are those who speak like the thrusts of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it bites like an asp 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 has muttered perverseness.

Isaiah 59:13

in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and going away from our God, talking cruelty and revolt, conceiving and speaking from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies. But they are not mighty for the truth on the earth; for they go from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says Jehovah.

Jeremiah 9:5

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

Matthew 12:34

Offspring of vipers! How can you, 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 have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips;

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, so your thoughts should be corrupted from the simplicity due to Christ.

James 3:6-8

And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity. So the tongue is set among our members, spotting all the body and inflaming the course of nature, and being inflamed by hell.