Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)

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 turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

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Cross References

Job 20:14His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,

Psalms 12:3How long shall my enemy be exalted over Me?

Psalms 52:2They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good.

Psalms 140:3Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth: and a door round about my lips.

Jeremiah 5:16Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.

Ezekiel 13:7Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying divination: and you say: The Lord saith: whereas 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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