Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues, they have been acting deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

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In The King James Version

Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

In Context

12All have gone astray; together they have become useless. There is no one who does good; there is not even one.

14Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness.

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Cross References

Job 20:14His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.

Psalms 12:3How long will my enemy be exalted over me?

Psalms 52:2They were corrupted, and they became abominable with iniquities. There is no one who does good.

Psalms 140:3O Lord, station a guard over my mouth and a door enclosing my lips.

Jeremiah 5:16Their quiver is like an open sepulcher. They are all strong.

Ezekiel 13:7Have you not seen a futile vision and spoken a lying divination? And yet you say, ‘The Lord says,’ though I have not spoken.

Matthew Henry on Romans 3:2-19

The Advantages of the Jews; Objections Answered; The Depravity of Jews and Gentiles. ( a. d. 58.) 1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God. 3 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? 4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art… Read the whole commentary →

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