Psalms 140:3
"They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah."
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- Psalms 58:4
"Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;"
Read in chapter → - Romans 3:13
"Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 23:32
"At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder."
Read in chapter → - Psalms 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."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - James 3:6
"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 of hell."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 9:5
"And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity."
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 59:3
"For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness."
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