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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 tongue like a serpent; Adders’ poison is under their lips.[ Selah
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Psalms 12:3-4
Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaketh great 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 serpents, And the cruel venom of asps.
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Romans 3:4
God forbid: yea, let God be found true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, And mightest prevail when thou comest into judgment.
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Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongue, as it were their bow, for falsehood; and they are grown strong in the land, but not for truth: for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith Jehovah.Take ye heed every one of his neighbor, and trust ye not in any brother; for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbor will go about with slanders.And they will deceive every one his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies; they 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 outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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Psalms 52:2
Thy tongue deviseth very wickedness, Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
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Psalms 36:3
The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased 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 muttereth wickedness.
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Matthew 12:34-35
Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.The good man out of his good treasure bringeth forth good things: and the evil man out of his evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
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Psalms 57:4
My soul is among lions; I lie 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
So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire!And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind:but the tongue can no man tame; it is a restless evil, it is full of deadly poison.
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Jeremiah 5:16
Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
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Ezekiel 13:7
Have ye not seen a false vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, in that ye say, Jehovah saith; albeit I have not spoken?
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Job 20:14-16
Yet his food 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 will cast them out of his belly.He shall suck the poison of asps: The viper’s tongue shall slay him.