Psalms 140:3

His enemies sharpen their tongues like a serpent, with viper's poison under their lips. It pictures the deadly destructiveness of slanderous speech.

Cross-references · 16

• Ps 58:4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
• Rom 3:13–14Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
• 2 Cor 11:3But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• Prov 23:32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
• Jas 3:6–8And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
• Isa 59:3–5For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
• Matt 12:34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
• Jer 9:3And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
• Jer 9:5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
• Ps 64:3–4Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
• Isa 59:13In 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.
• Ps 52:2–3Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Gen 3:13And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
• Prov 12:18There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

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