James 3:8

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

For there is no faithfulness in their mouth. Their heart is destruction. Their throat is an open tomb. They flatter with their tongue.

They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips.

A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.

He said to them, “I saw Satan having fallen like lightning from heaven.

Now is the judgment of this world. Now the prince of this world will be cast out.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you.

Don’t draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

Break their teeth, God, in their mouth. Break out the great teeth of the young lions, Yahweh.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

You are of your father, the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and doesn’t stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks on his own; for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the world comes, and he has nothing in me.

in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.

And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.

He seized the dragon, the old serpent, which is the devil and Satan, who deceives the whole inhabited earth, and bound him for a thousand years,

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

You will tread on the lion and cobra. You will trample the young lion and the serpent underfoot.

A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.

For lack of wood a fire goes out. Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.

If the snake bites before it is charmed, then is there no profit for the charmer’s tongue.

There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

for they are spirits of demons, performing signs; which go out to the kings of the whole inhabited earth, to gather them together for the war of that great day of God, the Almighty.

and cast him into the abyss, and shut it, and sealed it over him, that he should deceive the nations no more, until the thousand years were finished. After this, he must be freed for a short time.

and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, “Has God really said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden’?”

You say, ‘What does God know? Can he judge through the thick darkness?

He says in his heart, “God has forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.”

Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

Their poison is like the poison of a snake, like a deaf cobra that stops its ear,

Behold, they spew with their mouth. Swords are in their lips, “For”, they say, “who hears us?”

They fully intend to throw him down from his lofty place. They delight in lies. They bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly.

who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,

For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

There is one who speaks rashly like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise heals.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, and their jaws like knives, to devour the poor from the earth, and the needy from among men.

The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.

“For, behold, I will send serpents, adders among you, which will not be charmed; and they will bite you,” says Yahweh.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

We know that we are of God, and the whole world lies in the power of the evil one.

Another sign was seen in heaven. Behold, a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven crowns.

He deceives my own people who dwell on the earth because of the signs he was granted to do in front of the beast, saying to those who dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast who had the sword wound and lived.

Their wine is the poison of serpents, the cruel venom of asps.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth,

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies. Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Their tongue is a deadly arrow. It speaks deceit. One speaks peaceably to his neighbor with his mouth, but in his heart, he waits to ambush him.

Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘Yahweh says;’ but I have not spoken?”

Then Jesus said to him, “Get behind me, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the Lord your God, and you shall serve him only.’ ”

Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

Ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham whom Satan had bound eighteen long years, be freed from this bondage on the Sabbath day?”

about judgment, because the prince of this world has been judged.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

And the God of peace will quickly crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.

The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he 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.