Bible Cross References
sharpened
Psalm 52:2
You make plans to ruin others; your tongue is like a sharp razor. You are always inventing lies.
Psalm 52:3
You love evil more than good and falsehood more than truth.
Psalm 57:4
I am surrounded by enemies, who are like lions hungry for human flesh. Their teeth are like spears and arrows; their tongues are like sharp swords.
Psalm 59:7
Listen to their insults and threats. Their tongues are like swords in their mouths, yet they think that no one hears them.
Psalm 64:3
They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim cruel words like arrows.
Psalm 64:4
They are quick to spread their shameless lies; they destroy good people with cowardly slander.
Proverbs 12:18
Thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword, but wisely spoken words can heal.
Isaiah 59:3-5
3
You are guilty of lying, violence, and murder.
4
You go to court, but you do not have justice on your side. You depend on lies to win your case. You carry out your plans to hurt others.
5
The evil plots you make are as deadly as the eggs of a poisonous snake. Crush an egg, out comes a snake! But your plots will do you no good---they are as useless as clothing made of cobwebs!
Isaiah 59:13-5
Jeremiah 9:3
They are always ready to tell lies; dishonesty instead of truth rules the land. The LORD says, "My people do one evil thing after another and do not acknowledge me as their God."
Jeremiah 9:5
They all mislead their friends, and no one tells the truth; they have taught their tongues to lie and will not give up their sinning. They do one violent thing after another, and one deceitful act follows another. The LORD says that his people reject him.
James 3:6-8
6
And the tongue is like a fire. It is a world of wrong, occupying its place in our bodies and spreading evil through our whole being. It sets on fire the entire course of our existence with the fire that comes to it from hell itself.
7
We humans are able to tame and have tamed all other creatures---wild animals and birds, reptiles and fish.
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But no one has ever been able to tame the tongue. It is evil and uncontrollable, full of deadly poison.
like a serpent
Genesis 3:13
The LORD God asked the woman, "Why did you do this?" She replied, "The snake tricked me into eating it."
Proverbs 23:32
The next morning you will feel as if you had been bitten by a poisonous snake.
Matthew 12:34
You snakes---how can you say good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.
2 Corinthians 11:3
I am afraid that your minds will be corrupted and that you will abandon your full and pure devotion to Christ---in the same way that Eve was deceived by the snake's clever lies.
adders
Psalm 58:4
They are full of poison like snakes; they stop up their ears like a deaf cobra,
Romans 3:13
Their words are full of deadly deceit; wicked lies roll off their tongues, and dangerous threats, like snake's poison, from their lips;
Romans 3:14
their speech is filled with bitter curses.