Psalm 140:3

Prayer For Rescue

² Who imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they assembled for war. ³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adder's poison is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

Selah

Psalm 58:4

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

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them 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

And the LORD God said to 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 deviseth mischiefs; 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 is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth 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 hath uttered perverseness.

Isaiah 59:13

In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering 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 know not me, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will deceive every one his neighbor, 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 speaketh.

Romans 3:13-14

Their throat is an open sepulcher; 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 through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

James 3:6-8

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