Psalm 140:3

New King James Version

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; The poison of asps is under their lips. Selah

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

And the Lord God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” 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 cobra that stops its ear,

Psalm 59:7

Indeed, they belch with their mouth; Swords are in their lips; For they say, “Who hears?”

Proverbs 12:18

There is one who speaks like the piercings of a sword, But the tongue of the wise promotes health.

Proverbs 23:32

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

Proverbs 6:14

Perversity is in his heart, He devises evil continually, He sows discord.

Isaiah 59:13

In transgressing and lying against the Lord, And departing from our God, Speaking oppression and revolt, Conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

“And like their bow they have bent their tongues for lies. They are not valiant for the truth on the earth. For they proceed from evil to evil, And they do not know Me,” says the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

Everyone will deceive his neighbor, And will not speak the truth; They have taught their tongue to speak lies; They weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of my enemies And their whispering against me all the day.

Matthew 12:34

Brood 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, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, so your minds may be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.