Psalms 140:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison [is] under their lips. Selah.

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  • Ps 58:4 : 4 Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My 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.
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 And 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.
  • Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words: 4 That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 ¶ There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise [is] health.
  • Prov 23:32 : 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. 4 None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 In 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.
  • Jer 9:3 : 3 And 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 9:5 : 5 And 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.
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 ‹O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.›
  • Rom 3:13-14 : 13 Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips: 14 Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But 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.
  • Jas 3:6-8 : 6 And 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. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Rom 3:13-15
    3 verses
    87%

    13Their throat [is] an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps [is] under their lips:

    14Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness:

    15Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3Who whet their tongue like a sword, [and] bend [their bows to shoot] their arrows, [even] bitter words:

    4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

  • Ps 58:4
    81%

    4Their poison [is] like the poison of a serpent: [they are] like the deaf adder [that] stoppeth her ear;

  • Ps 140:2
    78%

    2Which imagine mischiefs in [their] heart; continually are they gathered together [for] war.

  • Ps 5:9
    77%

    9For [there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part [is] very wickedness; their throat [is] an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 140:9
    77%

    9[As for] the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • Ps 52:2-4
    3 verses
    77%

    2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3Thou lovest evil more than good; [and] lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah.

    4Thou lovest all devouring words, O [thou] deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 59:12
    76%

    12[For] the sin of their mouth [and] the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying [which] they speak.

  • Jer 9:8
    75%

    8Their tongue [is as] an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: [one] speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

  • Ps 10:7
    75%

    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue [is] mischief and vanity.

  • Ps 73:9
    75%

    9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Ps 62:4
    75%

    4They only consult to cast [him] down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 59:7
    75%

    7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords [are] in their lips: for who, [say they], doth hear?

  • Deut 32:33
    74%

    33Their wine [is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

  • Job 20:16
    74%

    16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

  • Ps 109:2
    74%

    2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

  • Prov 24:2
    74%

    2For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Ps 140:4-5
    2 verses
    74%

    4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from the violent man; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.

    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set gins for me. Selah.

  • Ps 120:3
    74%

    3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

  • Jer 9:3
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 64:7-8
    2 verses
    73%

    7¶ But God shall shoot at them [with] an arrow; suddenly shall they be wounded.

    8So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves: all that see them shall flee away.

  • Jas 3:8
    72%

    8But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

  • Ps 12:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.

    3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, [and] the tongue that speaketh proud things:

  • Ps 83:3
    72%

    3They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.

  • Prov 23:32
    72%

    32At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

  • Lam 3:62
    72%

    62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

  • Ps 21:11
    72%

    11For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, [which] they are not able [to perform].

  • Ps 57:4
    71%

    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 34:13
    71%

    13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

  • Ps 31:18
    71%

    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • Ps 17:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

  • Ps 22:13
    71%

    13They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • Ps 38:12
    71%

    12¶ They also that seek after my life lay snares [for me]: and they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things, and imagine deceits all the day long.

  • Ps 57:6
    71%

    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen [themselves]. Selah.

  • Job 16:10
    71%

    10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; they have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully; they have gathered themselves together against me.

  • Ps 69:22
    71%

    22¶ Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap.

  • Ps 35:20
    71%

    20For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters against [them that are] quiet in the land.

  • Jer 9:5
    71%

    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 55:21
    71%

    21[The words] of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war [was] in his heart: his words were softer than oil, yet [were] they drawn swords.

  • Eccl 10:11
    71%

    11Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

  • Ps 37:14
    70%

    14The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, [and] to slay such as be of upright conversation.