Romans 3:13

A sepulchre opened [is] their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps [is] under their lips.

Young's Literal 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 did go out of the way, together they became unprofitable, there is none doing good, there is not even one.

14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

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Cross References

Job 20:14His food in his bowels is turned, The bitterness of asps [is] in his heart.

Psalms 12:3Jehovah doth cut off all lips of flattery, A tongue speaking great things,

Psalms 52:2Mischiefs doth thy tongue devise, Like a sharp razor, working deceit.

Psalms 140:3They sharpened their tongue as a serpent, Poison of an adder [is] under their lips. Selah.

Jeremiah 5:16Its quiver [is] as an open sepulchre, All of them — mighty ones.

Ezekiel 13:7A vain vision have ye not seen, And a lying divination spoken, When ye say: An affirmation of Jehovah, 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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