Romans 3:13
Good News Translation
Their words are full of deadly deceit; wicked lies roll off their tongues, and dangerous threats, like snake's poison, from their lips;

New Revised Standard Version
“Their throats are opened graves; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The venom of vipers is under their lips.”

Contemporary English Version
Their words are like an open pit, and their tongues are good only for telling lies. Each word is as deadly as the fangs of a snake,

New American Bible
Their throats are open graves; they deceive with their tongues; the venom of asps is on their lips;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.

throat.

Psalm 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Jeremiah 5:16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all valiant.

Matthew 23:27,28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. . . .

with their.

Romans 3:4 But God is true and every man a liar, as it is written: That thou mayest be justified in thy words and mayest overcome when thou art judged.

Psalm 5:9 For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Psalm 12:3,4 May the Lord destroy all deceitful lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things. . . .

Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and guile: he would not understand that he might do well.

Psalm 52:2 All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.

Psalm 57:4 And he hath delivered my soul from the midst of the young lions. I slept troubled. The sons of men, whose teeth are weapons and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.

Isaiah 59:3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity: your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue uttereth iniquity.

Jeremiah 9:3-5 And they have bent their tongue, as a bow, for lies, and not for truth: they have strengthened themselves upon the earth, for they have proceeded from evil to evil, and me they have not known, saith the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 13:7 Have you not seen a vain vision and spoken a lying divination: and you say: The Lord saith: whereas I have not spoken.

Matthew 12:34,35 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. . . .

James 3:5-8 Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood. . . .

the poison.

Deuteronomy 32:33 Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.

Job 20:14-16 His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him, . . .

Psalm 140:3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

Context
There is No One Righteous
12All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one. 13Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips. 14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:…
Cross References
Psalm 5:9
For there is no truth in their mouth: their heart is vain.

Psalm 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent: the venom of asps is under their lips.

Romans 3:12
All have turned out of the way: they are become unprofitable together: there is none that doth good, there is not so much as one.

James 3:8
But the tongue no man can tame, an unquiet evil, full of deadly poison.

Romans 3:12
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