Psa 52:2-4, 57:4, Jam 3:6 | ESV | STEP | Your tongue plots destruction , like a sharp razor , you worker of deceit .

Psalms 52:2-4

2 Your ^atongue plots destruction,
like ^ba sharp razor, you ^cworker of deceit.
3 You love evil more than good,
and ^dlying more than speaking what is right. Selah
4 You love all words that devour,
O deceitful tongue.

Psalms 57:4

4 My soul is in the midst of ^elions;
I lie down amid fiery beasts—
the children of man, whose ^fteeth are spears and arrows,
whose ^gtongues are sharp swords.

James 3:6

6 And ^hthe tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, ⁱstaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, ^{▼▼Or wheel of birth} and set on fire by hell. ^{▼▼Greek Gehenna}