"They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah."
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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.
The tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?
Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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.
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.
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.
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
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.
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.
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.
Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;
Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
\140:2\Who imagine mischiefs in their heart; continually are they assembled for war.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder `is' under their lips. Selah.