Romans 3:13 · KJV
“Their throat {is} an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps {is} under their lips:”
— Romans 3:13
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Whose mouth {is} full of cursing and bitterness:
Romans 3 — Context
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
13Their throat {is} an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps {is} under their lips:
14Whose mouth {is} full of cursing and bitterness:
15Their feet {are} swift to shed blood:
Cross References
Psalms 5:9
For {there is} no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part {is} very wickedness; their throat {is} an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue. {faithfulness: or, stedfastness} {their mouth: Heb. his mouth, that is, the mouth of any of them} {very...: Heb. wickednesses}
Psalms 140:3
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison {is} under their lips. Selah.
Matthew 23:27-28
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead {men's} bones, and of all uncleanness.
Psalms 57:4
My soul {is} among lions: {and} I lie {even among} them that are set on fire, {even} the sons of men, whose teeth {are} spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Jeremiah 9:3-5
And they bend their tongues {like} their bow {for} lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
Ezekiel 13:7
Have ye not seen a vain vision, and have ye not spoken a lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith {it}; albeit I have not spoken?
Isaiah 59:3
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Matthew 12:34-35
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.