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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; the poison of asps is under their lips: (Rom. 3:13)

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sharpened.

Psa. 52:2‑3• ²Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
³Thou lovest evil more than good; and lying rather than to speak righteousness. Selah. (Psa. 52:2‑3)

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Psa. 57:4• 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. (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 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. (Psa. 64:3‑4)

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Prov. 12:18• ¹⁸There is that speaketh 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 defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
⁴None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
⁵They 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.
¹³In 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. (Isa. 59:3‑5,13)

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Jer. 9:3,5• 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.
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. (Jer. 9:3,5)

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James 3:6‑8• ⁶And 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.
⁷For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
⁸But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. (James 3:6‑8)

like a serpent.

Gen. 3:13• ¹³And 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. (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• ³⁴O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. (Matt. 12:34)

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2 Cor. 11:3• ³But 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. (2 Cor. 11:3)

adders.

Psa. 58:4• ⁴Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that 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; the poison of asps 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.