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Psalms 5:9
For[ there is] no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part[ is] very wickedness; their throat[ is] an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.
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Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison[ is] under their lips. Selah.
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Psalms 12:3-4
The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips,[ and] the tongue that speaketh proud things:Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips[ are] our own: who[ is] lord over us?
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Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine[ is] the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
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Romans 3:4
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
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Jeremiah 9:3-5
And 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.Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders.And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,[ and] weary themselves to commit iniquity.
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Matthew 23:27-28
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead[ men’s] bones, and of all uncleanness.Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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Psalms 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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Psalms 36:3
The words of his mouth[ are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise,[ and] to do good.
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Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
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Matthew 12:34-35
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
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Psalms 57:4
My 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.
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James 3:5-8
Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!And 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.For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:But the tongue can no man tame;[ it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
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Jeremiah 5:16
Their quiver[ is] as an open sepulchre, they[ are] all mighty men.
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Ezekiel 13:7
Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith[ it]; albeit I have not spoken?
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Job 20:14-16
[ Yet] his meat in his bowels is turned,[ it is] the gall of asps within him.He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.