Psalms 140:3
They haue sharpened their tongue lyke a serpent: Adders poyson is vnder their lippes. Selah.
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- Ps 58:4 : 4 They haue poyson within them lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares,
- Ps 57:4 : 4 My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.
- Gen 3:13 : 13 And the Lord God sayd vnto the woman: Why hast thou done this? And the woman sayde: the serpent begyled me, and I dyd eate.
- Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser. 3 Thou hast loued vngratiousnes more then goodnes: and to talke of falshood more then of righteousnes. Selah.
- Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?
- Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde. 4 That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect: they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not.
- Prov 12:18 : 18 A slaunderous person pricketh lyke a sworde: but a wise mans tongue is wholsome.
- Prov 23:32 : 32 It goeth downe sweetely, but at the last it byteth like a serpent, and stingeth lyke an adder.
- Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your handes are defiled with blood, and your fingers with vnrighteousnesse: your lippes speake leasinges, and your tongue setteth out wickednesse. 4 No man regardeth righteousnesse, and no man iudgeth truely: euery man hopeth in vayne things, and imagineth deceipt, conceaueth weerinesse, and bringeth foorth euill. 5 They breede cockatrice egges, and weaue the spiders webbe, who so eateth of their egges, dyeth: but if one treade vpon them, there commeth vp a serpent.
- Isa 59:13 : 13 namely transgresse and dissemble against the Lorde, and fall away from our God, vsing presumpteous and trayterous imaginations, and casting false matters in our heartes.
- Jer 9:3 : 3 They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.
- Jer 9:5 : 5 Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe.
- Matt 12:34 : 34 O generation of vipers, howe can ye speake good thynges, when ye your selues are euyll? For out of the aboundauce of the heart, the mouth speaketh.
- Rom 3:13-14 : 13 Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes. 14 Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.
- 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I feare lest by any meanes, that as the serpent begyled Eue through his subtiltie, euen so your myndes shoulde be corrupted fro the singlenesse that is towarde Christe.
- Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell. 7 All the natures of beastes, & of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thynges of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man: 8 But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euyll, full of deadly poyson.
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- Rom 3:13-153 verses87%
13 Their throte is an open sepulchre, with their tongues they haue deceaued, the poyso of aspes is vnder their lippes.
14 Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.
15 Their feete are swyft to shed blood.
- Ps 64:3-42 verses81%
3 Who haue whet their tongue lyke a sword: who haue drawne their arrow, euen a bitter worde.
4 That they may priuily shoote at hym which is perfect: they do sodenly shoote at hym and feare not.
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4 They haue poyson within them lyke to the poyson of a serpent: they be lyke the deafe adder that stoppeth her eares,
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2 Who in heart imagine mischiefes: and set forwarde to warre euery day.
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9 For no trueth is in their mouth, their inwarde partes are very wickednesse: their throte is an open sepulchre, they flatter with their tongue.
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9 Let the labour of his owne lippe couer him: who is head of them that compasse me about.
- Ps 52:2-43 verses77%
2 Thy tongue imagineth wickednes: and deceaueth like a sharpe raser.
3 Thou hast loued vngratiousnes more then goodnes: and to talke of falshood more then of righteousnes. Selah.
4 Thou hast loued to speake all wordes that may do hurt: O thou deceiptfull tongue.
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12 The wordes of their lippes be the sinne of their mouth: O let them be taken in their pryde, for they speake nothing but curses and lies.
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8 Their tongues are like sharpe arrowes to speake deceipt: with their mouth they speake peaceablie to their neighbour, but priuilie they lay wayte for hym.
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7 His mouth is full of cursing, and of deceate, and of fraude: vnder his tongue is labour and mischiefe.
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9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde.
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4 They deuise only howe to thrust him from his promotion: they delight in a lye, they blesse with their mouth, and curse with their heart. Selah.
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7 Behold they speake with their mouth, swordes are in their lippes: for say they who doth heare vs?
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33 Their vine is the poyson of dragons, and the cruell gall of aspes.
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16 He shall sucke the gall of serpentes, and the adders tongue shall slay him:
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2 For the mouth of the vngodly and the mouth of the deceiptfull is opened vpon me: they haue spoken against me with a false tongue.
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2 For their heart imagineth to do hurt, and their lippes talke mischiefe.
- Ps 140:4-52 verses74%
4 Kepe me O God from the handes of the vngodly: preserue me from the outragious man, who haue deuised to thrust my feete from me.
5 The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spread a net abroade with coardes in the high wayes: they haue set trappes for me. Selah.
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3 What doth a deceiptfull tongue vnto thee? what good bryngeth it thee?
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3 They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.
- Ps 64:7-82 verses73%
7 But the Lorde wyll sodenly shoote at them with a swyft arrowe: their plagues shalbe apparaunt.
8 Yea they shall cause their owne tongues to be a meanes for to destroy the selues: insomuch that who so seeth them, shal desire to flee away from them
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8 But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euyll, full of deadly poyson.
- Ps 12:2-32 verses72%
2 Euery one vseth vayne talke with his neyghbour: and speaketh with a double heart out of flatteryng lippes.
3 God wyll cut away all flatteryng lippes: and the tongue that speaketh great thinges.
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3 They haue deuised shrewde counsell against thy people: and they haue consulted against thyne, whom thou defendest.
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32 It goeth downe sweetely, but at the last it byteth like a serpent, and stingeth lyke an adder.
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62 The lippes of mine enemies, and their deuises that they take against me al the day long.
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11 For they intended mischiefe agaynst thee, and imagined a craftie deuice: but they coulde not bring it to passe.
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4 My soule is among Lions, and I lye among those that are set on fire: among the children of men whose teeth are speares and arrowes, and their tongue a sharpe sword.
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13 Kepe thy tongue from euill: and thy lippes that they speake no guyle.
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18 Let the lying lippes be put to scilence: which speake against ye righteous greeuous thinges with disdaine & contempt.
- Ps 17:10-112 verses71%
10 They haue nowe compassed me on euery syde where our way lyeth: they toote with their eyes to ouerthrow me downe on the grounde.
11 His doynges be lyke a lions that is greedy to take a pray: and as a lions whelpe lurkyng in secrete places.
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13 They gape vpon me with their mouthes: as it were a rampyng and a roryng lion.
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12 They also that sought after my lyfe layde snares for me: and they that went about to do me euyll, talked of wickednesse, and imagined deceipt all the day long.
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6 They haue prepared a net for my feete, that some man might presse downe my soule: they haue digged a pit before me, and are fallen into the midst of it them selues. Selah.
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10 They haue opened their mouthes wide vpon me, and smitten me vpon the cheeke dispitefully, they gather the selues together against me.
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22 Let their table be as a snare before them: and in steade of aboundaunce of peace, let it be a meanes of destruction.
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20 For they speake not peace: but they imagine deceiptfull wordes agaynst them that liue quietly in the lande.
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5 Yea, one dissembleth with another, and they deale with no trueth: They haue practised their tongues to lye, and taken great paynes to do mischiefe.
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21 The wordes of his mouth were softer then butter, yet warre was in his heart: his wordes were smother then oyle, and yet be they very swordes.
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11 A backbiter is no better then a serpent that stingeth without hissing.
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14 The vngodly haue drawen out the sworde, and haue bended their bowe: to cast downe the poore and needie, and to slay such as be of right conuersation.