Psalms 140:3

KJV1611 – Modern English

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 stops her ear;
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions, and 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.
  • Gen 3:13 : 13 And the LORD God said to the woman, What is this you have done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
  • Ps 52:2-3 : 2 Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 3 You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.
  • Ps 59:7 : 7 Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Who sharpen 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 blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not.
  • Prov 12:18 : 18 There are those who speak like the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
  • Prov 23:32 : 32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.
  • Isa 59:3-5 : 3 For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness. 4 No one calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth: they trust in vanity and speak lies; they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity. 5 They hatch viper’s eggs and weave the spider's web: he who eats of their eggs dies, and what is crushed breaks out into a viper.
  • Isa 59:13 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing 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 a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.
  • Jer 9:5 : 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbor, 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 you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
  • Rom 3:13-14 : 13 'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.' 14 'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'
  • 2 Cor 11:3 : 3 But I fear, lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve through his craftiness, so your minds might 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 the tongue is among our members, that it defiles the whole body and sets on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire by hell. 7 For every kind of beast, and of bird, and of serpent, and of things in the sea, is tamed and has been tamed by mankind. 8 But no man can tame the tongue; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

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  • Rom 3:13-15
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    87%

    13'Their throat is an open grave; with their tongues they have practiced deceit; the poison of vipers is under their lips.'

    14'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.'

    15'Their feet are swift to shed blood:'

  • Ps 64:3-4
    2 verses
    81%

    3Who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words.

    4That they may shoot in secret at the blameless; 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 stops her ear;

  • Ps 140:2
    78%

    2Who devise mischiefs in their hearts; continually they gather together for war.

  • Ps 5:9
    77%

    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is pure wickedness; their throat is an open grave; they flatter with their tongue.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • Ps 52:2-4
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    2Your tongue devises mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

    3You love evil more than good; and lying rather than speaking righteousness. Selah.

    4You love all devouring words, O deceitful tongue.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Jer 9:8
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    8Their tongue is like an arrow shot out; it speaks deceit: one speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart he lies in wait.

  • Ps 10:7
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    7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud; under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • Ps 73:9
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    9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Ps 62:4
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    4They only plan to cast him down from his high position; they delight in lies; they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah.

  • Ps 59:7
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    7Behold, they belch out with their mouths; swords are in their lips, for who, they say, hears?

  • 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
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    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
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    2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Ps 140:4-5
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    4Keep me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; preserve me from violent men, who have purposed to overthrow my steps.

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

  • Ps 120:3
    74%

    3What shall be given to you? Or what shall be done to you, you false tongue?

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    3And they bend their tongues like a bow for lies; but they are not valiant for the truth on the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, says the LORD.

  • Ps 64:7-8
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    73%

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

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

  • Jas 3:8
    72%

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

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    72%

    2They speak vanity everyone with his neighbor: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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

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

  • Prov 23:32
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    32At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like a viper.

  • Lam 3:62
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    62The lips of those who rose up against me, and their plot against me all day long.

  • Ps 21:11
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    11For they intended evil against you: they devised a mischievous scheme, which they are not able to perform.

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    4My soul is among lions, and 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 34:13
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    13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking deceit.

  • Ps 31:18
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    18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    71%

    10They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.

  • Ps 22:13
    71%

    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

  • Ps 38:12
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    12Those who seek my life lay snares for me, and those who seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all day long.

  • Ps 57:6
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    6They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down; they have dug a pit before me; into the midst of it they have fallen themselves. Selah.

  • Job 16:10
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    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 69:22
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    22Let their table become a snare before them, and what should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

  • Ps 35:20
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    20For they speak not peace; but they devise deceitful matters against those who are quiet in the land.

  • Jer 9:5
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    5And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • Ps 55:21
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    21The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were 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 the sword and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay those who are of upright conduct.