Romans 3:13

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

World English Bible British

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 have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

14“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

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Cross References

Job 20:14yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

Psalms 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that boasts,

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

Psalms 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper’s poison is under their lips. Selah.

Jeremiah 5:16Their quiver is an open tomb. They are all mighty men.

Ezekiel 13:7Haven’t you seen a false vision, and haven’t you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, ‘The LORD says;’ but 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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