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 snake; like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,
• Rom 3:13–14“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips”;
• 2 Cor 11:3But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
• Prov 23:32In the end, it bites like a snake, and poisons like a viper.
• Jas 3:6–8And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
• Isa 59:3–5For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.
• Matt 12:34You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.
• Jer 9:3“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood; and they have grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.
• Jer 9:5Everyone will deceive their neighbors, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.
• Ps 57:4My soul is among lions. I lie among those who 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 sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
• Isa 59:13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
• Ps 52:2–3Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
• Gen 3:13Yahweh God said to the woman, “What have you done?” The woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
• Prov 12:18There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.
• Ps 59:7Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

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