Psalms 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Cross References (16)

  • Psalms 58:4 (7)

    Their venom is like the venom of a snake, like a cobra that shuts its ears,

  • Romans 3:13–14 (6)

    “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

  • 2 Corinthians 11:3 (6)

    I am afraid, however, that just as Eve was deceived by the serpent’s cunning, your minds may be led astray from your sim

  • Proverbs 23:32 (5)

    In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.

  • Psalms 57:4 (4)

    My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts—with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues ar

  • Jeremiah 9:3 (4)

    “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do

  • James 3:6–8 (4)

    The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the cou

  • Isaiah 59:3–5 (4)

    For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutte

  • Jeremiah 9:5 (4)

    Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out com

  • Matthew 12:34 (4)

    You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

  • Isaiah 59:13 (3)

    rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies

  • Genesis 3:13 (3)

    Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”

  • Psalms 52:2–3 (3)

    Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

  • Psalms 64:3–4 (3)

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

  • Proverbs 12:18 (3)

    Speaking rashly is like a piercing sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.

  • Psalms 59:7 (1)

    See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”