Romans 3:13

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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

    15 Their feet [are] swift to shed blood:

    16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:

  • Ps 5:9-10
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    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.

    10 Destroy 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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    3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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

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

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

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

  • 12 [For] 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.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • 8 Their 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Ps 12:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2 They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lips [and] with a double heart do they speak.

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

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

  • Isa 59:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 9 ¶ The 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.

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

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

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

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

  • 4 Against 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,

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

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