Romans 3:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

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  • Ps 5:9 : 9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.
  • Jer 5:16 : 16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord. 4 Let everyone keep watch on his neighbour, and put no faith in any brother: for every brother will certainly be tricking his brother, and every neighbour will go about saying evil. 5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.
  • Ezek 13:7 : 7 Have you not seen a vision without substance and have you not falsely made use of secret arts, when you say, The Lord has said; though I have said nothing?
  • Matt 12:34-35 : 34 You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth. 35 The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.
  • Matt 23:27-28 : 27 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things. 28 Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.
  • Rom 3:4 : 4 In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 Even so the tongue is a small part of the body, but it takes credit for great things. How much wood may be lighted by a very little fire! 6 And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell. 7 For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority; 8 But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.
  • Ps 12:3-4 : 3 The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord. 4 They have said, With our tongues will we overcome; our lips are ours: who is lord over us?
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.
  • Deut 32:33 : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.
  • Job 20:14-16 : 14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him. 15 He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God. 16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

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  • Ps 140:3
    87%

    3 Their tongues are sharp like the tongue of a snake; the poison of snakes is under their lips. (Selah.)

  • Rom 3:14-16
    3 verses
    85%

    14 Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

    15 Their feet are quick in running after blood;

    16 Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

  • Ps 5:9-10
    2 verses
    85%

    9 For no faith may be put in their words; their inner part is nothing but evil; their throat is like an open place for the dead; smooth are the words of their tongues.

    10 Send them to destruction, O Lord; let their evil designs be the cause of their fall; let them be forced out by all their sins; because they have gone against your authority.

  • Ps 58:3-4
    2 verses
    80%

    3 The evil-doers are strange from the first; from the hour of their birth they go out of the true way, saying false words.

    4 Their poison is like the poison of a snake; they are like the adder, whose ears are shut;

  • Ps 10:7
    77%

    7 His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and false words: under his tongue are evil purposes and dark thoughts.

  • Rom 3:12
    77%

    12 They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:

  • Ps 73:9
    76%

    9 Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.

  • Ps 59:12
    75%

    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Deut 32:33
    75%

    33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, the cruel poison of snakes.

  • Job 20:16
    75%

    16 He takes the poison of snakes into his mouth, the tongue of the snake is the cause of his death.

  • Jer 9:5
    75%

    5 Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.

  • Ps 109:2
    74%

    2 For the mouth of the sinner is open against me in deceit: his tongue has said false things against me.

  • Jer 9:8
    74%

    8 His tongue is an arrow causing death; the words of his mouth are deceit: he says words of peace to his neighbour, but in his heart he is waiting secretly for him.

  • Jer 9:3
    74%

    3 Their tongues are bent like a bow to send out false words: they have become strong in the land, but not for good faith: they go on from evil to evil, and they have no knowledge of me, says the Lord.

  • Ps 59:7
    74%

    7 See, hate is dropping from their lips; curses are on their tongues: they say, Who gives attention to it?

  • Jas 3:8
    74%

    8 But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.

  • Ps 64:3
    74%

    3 Who make their tongues sharp like a sword, and whose arrows are pointed, even bitter words;

  • Prov 24:2
    74%

    2 For the purposes of their hearts are destruction, and their lips are talking of trouble.

  • Ps 12:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 Everyone says false words to his neighbour: their tongues are smooth in their talk, and their hearts are full of deceit.

    3 The smooth lips and the tongue of pride will be cut off by the Lord.

  • Ps 34:13
    73%

    13 Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from words of deceit.

  • Isa 59:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 For your hands are unclean with blood, and your fingers with sin; your lips have said false things, and your tongue gives out deceit.

    4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.

  • Ps 50:19
    73%

    19 You have given your mouth to evil, your tongue to words of deceit.

  • Ps 36:3
    73%

    3 In the words of his mouth are evil and deceit; he has given up being wise and doing good.

  • Ps 52:2
    72%

    2 Purposing destruction, using deceit; your tongue is like a sharp blade.

  • Ps 22:13
    72%

    13 I saw their mouths wide open, like lions crying after food.

  • Ps 140:9
    72%

    9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

  • Job 20:12
    72%

    12 Though evil-doing is sweet in his mouth, and he keeps it secretly under his tongue;

  • Ps 120:3
    72%

    3 What punishment will he give you? what more will he do to you, you false tongue?

  • Ps 135:17
    72%

    17 They have ears, but no hearing; and there is no breath in their mouths.

  • Jas 3:6
    72%

    6 And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.

  • Mic 6:12
    71%

    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Ps 144:8
    71%

    8 In whose mouths are false words, and whose right hand is a right hand of deceit.

  • Matt 12:34
    71%

    34 You offspring of snakes, how are you, being evil, able to say good things? because out of the heart's store come the words of the mouth.

  • Prov 26:24
    71%

    24 With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;

  • Hos 7:3
    71%

    3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

  • Job 20:14
    71%

    14 His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

  • Isa 3:9
    71%

    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Ps 31:18
    71%

    18 Let the false lips be shut, which say evil against the upright, looking down on him in their pride.

  • Ps 78:36
    70%

    36 But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

  • Lam 3:46
    70%

    46 The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

  • Job 15:5
    70%

    5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself.

  • Isa 57:4
    70%

    4 Of whom do you make sport? against whom is your mouth open wide and your tongue put out? are you not uncontrolled children, a false seed,

  • Ps 115:7
    70%

    7 They have hands without feeling, and feet without power of walking; and no sound comes from their throat.

  • Rom 1:29
    70%

    29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;