Psalm 140:3

Modern English Version

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s; under their lips is the venom of vipers.    Selah

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

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

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among the sons of men who are set on fire, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:4

Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stops its ear,

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they bellow with their mouth; swords are in their lips; for they say, “Who hears us?”

Proverbs 12:18

The words of the rash are like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

Proverbs 23:32

In the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.

Proverbs 6:14

perverseness is in his heart, he devises evil continually, he sows discord.

Isaiah 59:13

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.

Jeremiah 9:3

They bend their tongues like their bow; lies and not truth prevail upon the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know Me, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

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

Lamentations 3:62

the lips of my enemies and their devices against me all the day.

Matthew 12:34

O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve through his trickery, so your minds might be led astray from the simplicity that is in Christ.