Psalm 58:4
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4 They spit venom like deadly snakes;
they are like cobras that refuse to listen,
Psalm 140:3
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3 Their tongues sting like a snake;
the venom of a viper drips from their lips. Interlude
James 3:8
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8 but no one can tame the tongue. It is restless and evil, full of deadly poison.
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Ecclesiastes 10:11
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11 If a snake bites before you charm it,
what’s the use of being a snake charmer?
Romans 3:13
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13 “Their talk is foul, like the stench from an open grave.
Their tongues are filled with lies.”
“Snake venom drips from their lips.”[a]
Matthew 23:33
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33 Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
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Matthew 3:7
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7 But when he saw many Pharisees and Sadducees coming to watch him baptize,[a] he denounced them. “You brood of snakes!” he exclaimed. “Who warned you to flee the coming wrath?
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- 3:7 Or coming to be baptized.
Jeremiah 8:17
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17 I will send these enemy troops among you
like poisonous snakes you cannot charm.
They will bite you, and you will die.
I, the Lord, have spoken!”
Isaiah 11:8
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8 The baby will play safely near the hole of a cobra.
Yes, a little child will put its hand in a nest of deadly snakes without harm.
Job 20:16
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16 They will suck the poison of cobras.
The viper will kill them.
Job 20:14
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14 But suddenly the food in their bellies turns sour,
a poisonous venom in their stomach.
Deuteronomy 32:33
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33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
the deadly poison of cobras.
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