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Psalms 58:4
They have venom like the venom of a snake, like the deaf cobra that stops up its ears,
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Psalms 57:4
I am surrounded by lions; I lie down among devouring lions— people whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
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Proverbs 23:32
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
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Romans 3:13-14
Their throat is an open grave; they deceive with their tongues. Vipers’ venom is under their lips.Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
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Matthew 12:34
Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.
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Psalms 52:2-3
Like a sharpened razor, your tongue devises destruction, working treachery.You love evil instead of good, lying instead of speaking truthfully. Selah
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Isaiah 59:3-5
For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers, with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongues mutter injustice.No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.They hatch viper’s eggs and weave spider’s webs. Whoever eats their eggs will die; crack one open, and a viper is hatched.
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Psalms 59:7
Look, they spew from their mouths— sharp words from their lips.“ For who,” they say,“ will hear?”
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Jeremiah 9:3
They bent their tongues like their bows; lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land, for they proceed from one evil to another, and they do not take me into account. This is the LORD’s declaration.
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Jeremiah 9:5
Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to speak lies; they wear themselves out doing wrong.
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2 Corinthians 11 3
But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
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Isaiah 59:13
transgression and deception against the LORD, turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lying words from the heart.
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Genesis 3:13
So the LORD God asked the woman,“ What have you done?” And the woman said,“ The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
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James 3:6-8
And the tongue is a fire. The tongue, a world of unrighteousness, is placed among our members. It stains the whole body, sets the course of life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.Every kind of animal, bird, reptile, and fish is tamed and has been tamed by humankind,but no one can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
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Psalms 64:3-4
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim bitter words like arrows,shooting from concealed places at the blameless. They shoot at him suddenly and are not afraid.
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Proverbs 12:18
There is one who speaks rashly, like a piercing sword; but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
