Romans 3:13

Their throat is an open tomb; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:

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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 are all gone out of the way, they are together become useless; there is none that does good, no, not one.

14Whose 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 the gall of asps within him.

Psalms 12:3The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaks proud things:

Psalms 52:2The tongue devises evil; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalms 140:3They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

Jeremiah 5:16Their quiver is as an open tomb, they are all mighty men.

Ezekiel 13:7Have all of you not seen a vain vision, and have all of you not spoken a lying divination, whereas all of you say, The LORD says it; although it be 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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