Psalm 140:3

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

They sharpened their tongues as serpents; the venom of snakes is under the lips of them.

Cross References

Genesis 3:13

And the Lord said to the woman, Why didest thou this thing? The which answered, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.

Psalm 57:4

and delivered my soul from the midst of whelps of lions; I slept troubled or disturbed. The sons of men, the teeth of them be armours [or arms] and arrows; and their tongue is a sharp sword.

Psalm 58:4

Strong vengeance is to them, by the likeness of a serpent; as of a deaf snake, and stopping his ears.

Psalm 59:7

Lo! they shall speak in their mouth, and a sword in their lips; for who heard?

Proverbs 12:18

A man is that promiseth, and he is pricked as with the sword of conscience; but the tongue of wise men is health.

Proverbs 23:32

but at the last it shall bite as an adder, and as a cockatrice it shall shed abroad venoms.

Proverbs 6:14

by shrewd heart he imagineth evil, and in all time he soweth dissensions.

Isaiah 59:13

to do sin, and to lie against the Lord. And we be turned away, that we went not after the back of our God, that we speak false challenge, and trespassing. We conceived, and spake of heart, words of leasing;

Jeremiah 9:3

and they held forth their tongue as a bow of leasing, and not of truth. They be comforted in earth, for they went out from evil to evil, and they knew not me, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 9:5

And a man shall scorn his brother, and shall not speak truth; for they taught their tongue to speak leasing; they travailed to do wickedly.

Lamentations 3:62

The lips of men rising against me, and the thoughts of them against me all day.

Matthew 12:34

Ye generation of adders, how may ye speak good things, when ye be evil? For the mouth speaketh of the plenty [or of the great abundance] of the heart.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I dread, lest as the serpent deceived Eve with his subtle fraud, so your wits be corrupted, and fallen down from the simpleness that is in Christ.