Romans 3:13

“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”

Berean Standard Bible

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 away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”

14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”

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Cross References

Job 20:14yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Psalms 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah

Jeremiah 5:16Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.

Ezekiel 13:7Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ even 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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