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Psa. 140:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poisonc is under their lips. Selah.

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Rom. 3:13• ¹³their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips: (Rom. 3:13)

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sharpened.

Psa. 52:2‑3• ²Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.
³Thou hast loved evil rather than good, lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. (Psa. 52:2‑3)

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Psa. 57:4• ⁴My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down among them that breathe out flames, the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword. (Psa. 57:4)

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Psa. 59:7• ⁷Behold, they belch out with their mouth; swords are in their lips: for who say they doth hear? (Psa. 59:7)

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Psa. 64:3‑4• ³Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, and have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
⁴That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not. (Psa. 64:3‑4)

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Prov. 12:18• ¹⁸There is that babbleth like the piercings of a sword; but the tongue of the wise is health. (Prov. 12:18)

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Isa. 59:3‑5,13• ³For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips speak lies, your tongue muttereth unrighteousness:
⁴none calleth for justice, none pleadeth in truthfulness. They trust in vanity, and speak falsehood; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
⁵They hatch serpents' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.
¹³in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. (Isa. 59:3‑5,13)

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Jer. 9:3,5• ³And they bend their tongue, their bow of falsehood, and not for fidelity are they valiant in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.
⁵And they act deceitfully every one with his neighbour, and speak not the truth: they teach their tongue to speak falsehood, they weary themselves with perverse dealing. (Jer. 9:3,5)

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James 3:6‑8• ⁶and the tongue is fire, the world of unrighteousness; the tongue is set in our members, the defiler of the whole body, and which sets fire to the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell.
⁷For every species both of beasts and of birds, both of creeping things and of sea animals, is tamed and has been tamed by the human species;
⁸but the tongue can no one among men tame; it is an unsettled evil, full of death-bringing poison. (James 3:6‑8)

like a serpent.

Gen. 3:13• ¹³And Jehovah Elohim said to the woman, What is this thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate. (Gen. 3:13)

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Prov. 23:32• ³²at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. (Prov. 23:32)

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Matt. 12:34• ³⁴Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. (Matt. 12:34)

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2 Cor. 11:3• ³But I fear lest by any means, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craft, so your thoughts should be corrupted from simplicity as to the Christ. (2 Cor. 11:3)

adders.

Psa. 58:4• ⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder which stoppeth her ear; (Psa. 58:4)

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Rom. 3:13‑14• ¹³their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips:
¹⁴whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; (Rom. 3:13‑14)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.