Romans 3:13
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13 “Their throats are opened graves;
they use their tongues to deceive.”
“The venom of vipers is under their lips.”(A)
Psalm 5:9
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9 For there is no truth in their mouths;
their hearts are destruction;
their throats are open graves;
they flatter with their tongues.(A)
Psalm 140:3
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3 They make their tongue sharp as a snake’s,
and under their lips is the venom of vipers. Selah(A)
Matthew 23:27-28
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27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of uncleanness. 28 So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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Jeremiah 9:3-5
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3 They bend their tongues like bows;
they have grown strong in the land for falsehood and not for truth,
for they proceed from evil to evil,
and they do not know me, says the Lord.(A)
4 Beware of your neighbors,
and put no trust in any of your kin,
for all your kin are supplanters,
and every neighbor goes around like a slanderer.(B)
5 They all deceive their neighbors,
and no one speaks the truth;
they have taught their tongues to speak lies;
they commit iniquity and are too weary to repent.[a](C)
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- 9.5 Cn Compare Gk: Heb they weary themselves with iniquity.
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James 3:5-8
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5 So also the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great exploits.
How great a forest is set ablaze by a such a small fire!(A) 6 And the tongue is a fire. The tongue is placed among our members as a world of iniquity; it stains the whole body, sets on fire the cycle of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.[a](B) 7 For every species of beast and bird, of reptile and sea creature, can be tamed and has been tamed by the human species, 8 but no one can tame the tongue—a restless[b] evil, full of deadly poison.(C)
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Matthew 12:34-35
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34 You brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.(A) 35 The good person brings good things out of a good treasure, and the evil person brings evil things out of an evil treasure.
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Ezekiel 13:7
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7 Have you not seen a false vision or uttered a lying divination when you have said, “Says the Lord,” even though I did not speak?
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Isaiah 59:3
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3 For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies;
your tongue mutters wickedness.(A)
Psalm 57:4
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4 I lie down among lions
that greedily devour[a] human prey;
their teeth are spears and arrows,
their tongues sharp swords.(A)
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- 57.4 Cn: Heb are aflame for
Romans 3:4
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4 By no means! Although every human is a liar, let God be proved true, as it is written,
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- 3.4 Other ancient authorities read you may prevail
Jeremiah 5:16
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16 Their quiver is like an open tomb;
all of them are mighty warriors.(A)
Psalm 52:2
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2 you are plotting destruction.
Your tongue is like a sharp razor,
you worker of treachery.(A)
Psalm 36:3
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3 The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit;
they have ceased to act wisely and do good.(A)
Psalm 12:3-4
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3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
the tongue that makes great boasts,(A)
4 those who say, “With our tongues we will prevail;
our lips are our own—who is our master?”
Deuteronomy 32:33
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33 their wine is the poison of serpents,
the cruel venom of asps.(A)
Job 20:14-16
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14 yet their food is turned in their stomachs;
it is the venom of asps within them.
15 They swallow down riches and vomit them up again;
God casts them out of their bellies.
16 They will suck the poison of asps;
the tongue of a viper will kill them.(A)
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