Psalm 140:3

New American Standard Bible 2020

They sharpen their tongues like a snake; The venom of a viper is under their lips. Selah

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

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

Psalm 57:4

¶My soul is among lions; I must lie among those who devour, Among sons of mankind whose teeth are spears and arrows, And their tongue is 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 gush forth with their mouths; 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

In the end it bites like a snake And stings like a viper.

Proverbs 6:14

Who, with perversion in his heart, continually devises evil, Who spreads strife.

Isaiah 59:13

Offending and denying the Lord, And turning away from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.

Jeremiah 9:3

“They bend their tongues like their bows; Lies and not truth prevail in the land; For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” declares 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 committing wrongdoing.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of my assailants and their talk Are against me all day long.

Matthew 12:34

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, express any good things? For the mouth speaks from that which fills the heart.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his trickery, your minds will be led astray from sincere and pure devotion to Christ.