Psalm 140:3

Legacy Standard Bible

They sharpen their tongues as a serpent; Poison of an asp is under their lips. Selah.

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

Then Yahweh God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

Psalm 57:4

¶My soul is among lions; I am lying down among those who breathe forth fire, Sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows And their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:4

They have venom like the venom of a serpent; Like a deaf cobra that stops up its ear,

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they pour forth speech with their mouth; Swords are in their lips, For, they say, “Who hears?”

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks rashly like the thrusts of a sword, But the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 23:32

At the end—like a serpent it bites, And like a viper it stings.

Proverbs 6:14

Who with perversity in his heart continually devises evil, Who spreads contentions.

Isaiah 59:13

Transgressing and denying Yahweh, And turning back from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving in and uttering from the heart lying words.

Jeremiah 9:3

“They bend their tongue like their bow; Lies and unfaithfulness prevail in the land, For they go onward from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” declares Yahweh.

Jeremiah 9:5

“Everyone deceives his neighbor And does not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves committing iniquity.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of those who rise against me and their whispering Are against me all day long.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be corrupted from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ.