Exodus 20:16 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 16 “You must not testify falsely as a witness against your fellowman.*+ Psalm 52:2 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 2 Adversities your tongue schemes up, sharpened like a razor,+Working deceitfully.*+ Psalm 57:4 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 4 My soul is in the middle of lions;+I cannot but lie down among devourers, [even] the sons of men,*Whose teeth are spears and arrows,+And whose tongue is a sharp sword.+ Psalm 120:3 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 3 What will one give to you, and what will one add to you,O you tricky tongue?+ Psalm 140:3 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 3 They have sharpened their tongue like that of a serpent;+The venom of the horned viper is under their lips.+ Seʹlah. Jeremiah 9:3 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 3 and they bend their tongue as their bow in falsehood;+ but not for faithfulness have they proved mighty in the land.* “For from badness to badness they went forth, and they ignored even me,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah. James 3:6 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References 6 Well, the tongue is a fire.+ The tongue is constituted a world of unrighteousness among our members, for it spots up all the body+ and sets the wheel of natural life aflame and it is set aflame by Ge·henʹna.*
4 My soul is in the middle of lions;+I cannot but lie down among devourers, [even] the sons of men,*Whose teeth are spears and arrows,+And whose tongue is a sharp sword.+
3 They have sharpened their tongue like that of a serpent;+The venom of the horned viper is under their lips.+ Seʹlah.
3 and they bend their tongue as their bow in falsehood;+ but not for faithfulness have they proved mighty in the land.* “For from badness to badness they went forth, and they ignored even me,”+ is the utterance of Jehovah.
6 Well, the tongue is a fire.+ The tongue is constituted a world of unrighteousness among our members, for it spots up all the body+ and sets the wheel of natural life aflame and it is set aflame by Ge·henʹna.*