Romans 3:13

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • Ps 5:9 : 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.
  • Ps 140:3 : 3 They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.
  • Isa 59:3 : 3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
  • Jer 5:16 : 16 Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
  • Jer 9:3-5 : 3 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. 4 Take ye heed every one of his neighbour, and trust ye not in any brother: for every brother will utterly supplant, and every neighbour will walk with slanders. 5 And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.
  • Ezek 13:7 : 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?
  • Matt 12:34-35 : 34 O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. 35 A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
  • Matt 23:27-28 : 27 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. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
  • Rom 3:4 : 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 judged.
  • Jas 3:5-8 : 5 Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. 7 For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
  • Ps 12:3-4 : 3 The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things: 4 Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us?
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
  • Ps 52:2 : 2 Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
  • Ps 57:4 : 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.
  • Deut 32:33 : 33 Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
  • Job 20:14-16 : 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

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

  • Rom 3:14-16
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    14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

    15Their feet are swift to shed blood:

    16Destruction and misery are in their ways:

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    9For there is no faithfulness in their mouth; their inward part is very wickedness; their throat is an open sepulchre; they flatter with their tongue.

    10Destroy thou them, O God; let them fall by their own counsels; cast them out in the multitude of their transgressions; for they have rebelled against thee.

  • Ps 58:3-4
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    3The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

    4Their poison is like the poison of a serpent: they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear;

  • 7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.

  • 12They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

  • 9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • 12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.

  • 33Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.

  • 16He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him.

  • 5And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

  • 2For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue.

  • 8Their tongue is as an arrow shot out; it speaketh deceit: one speaketh peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth, but in heart he layeth his wait.

  • 3And 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.

  • 7Behold, they belch out with their mouth: swords are in their lips: for who, say they, doth hear?

  • 8But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

  • 3Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:

  • 2For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • Ps 12:2-3
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    2They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.

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

  • 13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

  • Isa 59:3-4
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    3For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

    4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  • 19Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

  • 3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.

  • 2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

  • 13They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • 9As for the head of those that compass me about, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • 12Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue;

  • 3What shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?

  • 17They have ears, but they hear not; neither is there any breath in their mouths.

  • 6And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

  • 12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • 8Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falsehood.

  • 34O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

  • 24He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

  • 3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • 14Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.

  • 9The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • 18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.

  • 36Nevertheless they did flatter him with their mouth, and they lied unto him with their tongues.

  • 46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

  • 5For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

  • 4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • 7They have hands, but they handle not: feet have they, but they walk not: neither speak they through their throat.

  • 29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,