but no human being can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.
“Their throat is an open grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of asps is under their lips.”
They make their tongue sharp as a serpent's, and under their lips is the venom of asps. Selah
And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.
His speech was smooth as butter, yet war was in his heart; his words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.
My soul is in the midst of lions; I lie down amid fiery beasts— the children of man, whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
who whet their tongues like swords, who aim bitter words like arrows, shooting from ambush at the blameless, shooting at him suddenly and without fear.
There they are, bellowing with their mouths with swords in their lips— for “Who,” they think, “will hear us?”
They have venom like the venom of a serpent, like the deaf adder that stops its ear,
If the serpent bites before it is charmed, there is no advantage to the charmer.
their wine is the poison of serpents and the cruel venom of asps.
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
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