Romans 3:13

their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison [is] under their lips:

Darby Translation

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 out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:

14whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

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Cross References

Job 20:14His food is turned in his bowels; it is the gall of asps within him.

Psalms 12:3Jehovah will cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things,

Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischievous things, like a sharp razor, practising deceit.

Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Jeremiah 5:16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty men.

Ezekiel 13:7Have ye not seen a vain vision, and spoken a lying divination, when ye say, Jehovah saith; and 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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