Psalm 140:3

Prayer For Rescue

² who craft evil plans in their minds, inciting wars every day. ³ They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Interlude ⁴ Protect me, LORD, from the control of evil people, from violent men who have planned to trip me.

Selah

Psalm 58:4

Their venom is like a poisonous snake; even like a deaf serpent that shuts its ears,

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions. I lie down with those who burn with fire that is, with people whose teeth are like spears and arrows whose tongues are like sharp swords.

Genesis 3:13

Then the LORD God asked the woman, "What did you do?" "The Shining One misled me," the woman answered, "so I ate."

Psalm 52:2-3

Your tongue, like a sharp razor, devises wicked things and crafts treachery.

Psalm 59:7

Look what pours out of their mouths! They use their lips like swords, saying "Who will hear us?"

Psalm 64:3-4

who sharpen their tongues like swords, and aim their bitter words like arrows,

Proverbs 12:18

Some speak rashly like the cutting of a sword, but what the wise say promotes healing.

Proverbs 23:32

Eventually it will bite like a snake and sting like a serpent.

Isaiah 59:3-5

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your tongue mutters wickedness.

Isaiah 59:13

they've rebelled in treachery against the LORD, and are turning away from following our God; and they've spoken oppression and revolt, and are conceiving lying words from the heart.

Jeremiah 9:3

They use their tongues like a bow. Lies rather than truth fly throughout the land. They progress from one evil to another, and they don't know me," declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:5

People deceive their friends, and they don't tell the truth. They have taught their tongues to tell lies. They exhaust themselves practicing evil.

Matthew 12:34

You children of serpents! How can you say anything good when you are evil? The mouth speaks about what overflows from the heart.

Romans 3:13-14

Their throats are open graves. With their tongues they deceive. The venom of poisonous snakes is under their lips.

2 Corinthians 11:3

However, I am afraid that just as the serpent deceived Eve by its tricks, so your minds may somehow be lured away from sincere and pure devotion to the Messiah.

James 3:6-8

The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. Placed among the parts of our bodies, the tongue contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.