Psalm 140:3

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

They have sharpened their tongue like a serpent; Adders' poison is under their lips. Selah

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I lie among them that are set on fire, Even the sons of men, 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 stoppeth her ear;

Psalm 59:7

Behold, they belch out with their mouth; Swords are in their lips: For who, say they, doth hear?

Proverbs 12:18

There is that speaketh rashly like the piercings of a sword: But the tongue of the wise is health.

Proverbs 23:32

At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.

Proverbs 6:14

Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; He soweth discord.

Isaiah 59:13

in transgressing and denying the LORD, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Jeremiah 9:3

And they bend their tongue as it were their bow for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:5

And they will deceive every one his neighbour, 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 those that rose up against me, and their imagination against me all the day.

Matthew 12:34

Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve in his craftiness, your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity that is toward Christ.