they shall take up serpents, and if they drink any deadly [poison] it shall not hurt them; and they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall be well.

Then he put water into the wash-basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.

their throat is an opened tomb, with their tongues they practise deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips.

Put to death, therefore, your members which are on the earth, fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness which is idolatry,

but the tongue can no man tame; it is a disorderly evil, full of a deadly poison.