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Psalm 140:3
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Psalm 140:3
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3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
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Psalm 140:3
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Psalm 140:3
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- Psalm 140:3 The Hebrew has Selah (a word of uncertain meaning) here and at the end of verses 5 and 8.
Psalm 58:4
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Psalm 58:4
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4 Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
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Psalm 58:4
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Psalm 58:4
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4 Their venom is like the venom of a snake,(A)
like that of a cobra that has stopped its ears,
2 Corinthians 11:3
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2 Corinthians 11:3
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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.
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2 Corinthians 11:3
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2 Corinthians 11:3
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3 But I am afraid that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning,(A) your minds may somehow be led astray from your sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
Romans 3:13-14
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Romans 3:13-14
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13 Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
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Romans 3:13-14
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Romans 3:13-14
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- Romans 3:13 Psalm 5:9
- Romans 3:13 Psalm 140:3
- Romans 3:14 Psalm 10:7 (see Septuagint)
Proverbs 23:32
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Proverbs 23:32
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32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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Proverbs 23:32
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Proverbs 23:32
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32 In the end it bites like a snake
and poisons like a viper.
James 3:6-8
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James 3:6-8
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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.
7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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James 3:6-8
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James 3:6-8
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6 The tongue also is a fire,(A) a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole body,(B) sets the whole course of one’s life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.(C)
7 All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and sea creatures are being tamed and have been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.(D)
Matthew 12:34
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Matthew 12:34
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34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
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Matthew 12:34
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Matthew 12:34
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34 You brood of vipers,(A) how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks(B) what the heart is full of.
Jeremiah 9:5
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Jeremiah 9:5
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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.
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Jeremiah 9:5
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Jeremiah 9:5
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Jeremiah 9:3
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Jeremiah 9:3
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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.
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Jeremiah 9:3
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Jeremiah 9:3
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Isaiah 59:3-5
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Isaiah 59:3-5
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3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
4 None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
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Isaiah 59:3-5
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Isaiah 59:3-5
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3 For your hands are stained with blood,(A)
your fingers with guilt.(B)
Your lips have spoken falsely,(C)
and your tongue mutters wicked things.
4 No one calls for justice;(D)
no one pleads a case with integrity.
They rely(E) on empty arguments, they utter lies;(F)
they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.(G)
5 They hatch the eggs of vipers(H)
and spin a spider’s web.(I)
Whoever eats their eggs will die,
and when one is broken, an adder is hatched.
Isaiah 59:13
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Isaiah 59:13
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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.
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Isaiah 59:13
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Isaiah 59:13
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Proverbs 12:18
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Proverbs 12:18
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18 There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
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Proverbs 12:18
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Proverbs 12:18
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Psalm 64:3-4
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Psalm 64:3-4
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3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
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Psalm 64:3-4
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Psalm 64:3-4
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