Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open grave. 1 Their tongues have deceived. 1 The poison of snakes is under their lips.” 1

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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

12They have all turned away. They together have become useless. 1 There is no one who does good, no, not even one.” 1

14“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.” 1

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Cross References

Job 20:14the food in his intestines turns bitter; 1 it becomes the poison of asps inside him. 1

Psalms 12:3Yahweh, cut off all flattering lips, 1 every tongue declaring great things. 1

Psalms 52:2Your tongue plans destruction 1 like a sharp razor, working deceitfully. 1

Psalms 140:3Their tongues wound like serpents; 1 vipers' poison is on their lips. Selah 1

Jeremiah 5:16Its quiver is like an open tomb. They are all soldiers. 1

Ezekiel 13:7Have you not had false visions and made false predictions, you who say, “Such and such is Yahweh's declaration” when I myself 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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