Psalm 140:3
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3 They make (A)their tongue sharp as (B)a serpent's,
and (C)under their lips is the (D)venom of asps. Selah
Psalm 58:4
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4 (A)They have venom like the venom of a serpent,
like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
2 Corinthians 11:3
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3 But I am afraid that (A)as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts (B)will be led astray from a (C)sincere and (D)pure devotion to Christ.
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Romans 3:13-14
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13 (A)“Their throat is (B)an open grave;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
(C)“The venom of asps is under their lips.”
14 (D)“Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.”
Proverbs 23:32
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32 In the end it (A)bites like a serpent
and stings like an adder.
James 3:6-8
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6 And (A)the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, (B)staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life,[a] and set on fire by hell.[b] 7 For every kind of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by mankind, 8 but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, (C)full of deadly poison.
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Matthew 12:34
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34 (A)You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, (B)when you are evil? (C)For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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Jeremiah 9:5
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5 Everyone deceives his neighbor,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongue to speak lies;
they weary themselves committing iniquity.
Jeremiah 9:3
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3 (A)They bend their tongue like a bow;
falsehood and not truth has grown strong[a] in the land;
for they proceed from evil to evil,
(B)and they do not know me, declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:3 Septuagint; Hebrew and not for truth they have grown strong
Isaiah 59:3-5
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3 (A)For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.
4 (B)No one enters suit justly;
no one goes to law honestly;
they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies,
(C)they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
5 They hatch adders' eggs;
they weave the spider's web;
he who eats their eggs dies,
and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
Isaiah 59:13
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13 transgressing, and denying the Lord,
and turning back from following our God,
(A)speaking oppression and revolt,
conceiving and uttering from the heart lying words.
Proverbs 12:18
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18 (A)There is one whose rash words are like sword thrusts,
but the tongue of the wise brings (B)healing.
Psalm 64:3-4
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3 who (A)whet their tongues like swords,
who (B)aim bitter words like arrows,
4 shooting from (C)ambush at the blameless,
shooting at him suddenly and (D)without fear.
Psalm 57:4
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4 My soul is in the midst of (A)lions;
I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose (B)teeth are spears and arrows,
whose (C)tongues are sharp swords.
Psalm 52:2-3
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2 Your (A)tongue plots destruction,
like (B)a sharp razor, you (C)worker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
and (D)lying more than speaking what is right. Selah
Genesis 3:13
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13 Then the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this that you have done?” The woman said, (A)“The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
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Psalm 59:7
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7 There they are, (A)bellowing with their mouths
with (B)swords in their lips—
for (C)“Who,” they think,[a] “will hear us?”
Footnotes
- Psalm 59:7 Hebrew lacks they think
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