Romans 3:13
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)““Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.””
Read Romans 3:13 in the flow of Romans3 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Romans3 to see the surrounding context.
““Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“A sepulchre opened <FI>is<Fi> their throat; with their tongues they used deceit; poison of asps <FI>is<Fi> under their lips.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Romans 3:13 — 16 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:33Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- Job 20:14yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
- Psalms 5:9For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.
- Psalms 12:3May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.
- Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
- Psalms 52:2Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- Psalms 57:4My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.
- Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
- Isaiah 59:3For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.
- Jeremiah 5:16Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.
- Jeremiah 9:3“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- Ezekiel 13:7Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ even though I have not spoken?
- Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
- Matthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- Romans 3:4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”
- James 3:5In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.
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