Romans 3:13
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
KJV
τάφος ἀνεῳγμένος ὁ λάρυγξ αὐτῶν, ταῖς γλώσσαις αὐτῶν ἐδολιοῦσαν, ἰὸς ἀσπίδων ὑπὸ τὰ χείλη αὐτῶν,
Greek NT
Sepulchrum patens est guttur eorum, linguis suis dolose agebant : venenum aspidum sub labiis eorum :
Vulgate
Their throat is an open sepulchre; With their tongues they have used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
ASV
Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have dealt deceitfully. The venom of asps is under their lips.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
γλῶσσα
glossa
noun · 50×
δολιόω
dolioo
verb · 1×
λάρυγξ
larugx
noun · 1×
τάφος
taphos
noun · 7×
χεῖλος
cheilos
noun · 7×
ἀνοίγω
anoigo
verb · 76×
ἀσπίς
aspis
noun · 1×
ἰός
ios
noun · 3×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×
Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Deut 32:33 — Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Deut 32:33 — Their wine is the poison of dragons, and the cruel venom of asps.
- Eph 4:29 — Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
- Ezek 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?
- Gen 3:15 — And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
- Isa 59:3 — For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
- Jas 3:5 — Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth!
- Jas 3:6 — 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.
- Jas 3:8 — But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
- Jer 5:16 — Their quiver is as an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.
- Jer 9:3 — 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.
- Jer 9:3 — 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.
- Job 20:14 — Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- Job 20:14 — Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
- Job 20:16 — He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
- Luke 6:45 — A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the
- Matt 12:34 — O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
- Matt 15:11 — Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.
- Matt 23:27 — 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.
- Mic 6:12 — For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.
- Prov 1:12 — Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
- Ps 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.
- Ps 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.
- Ps 12:3 — The LORD shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
- Ps 36:3 — The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good.
- Ps 52:2 — Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Ps 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.
- Ps 91:13 — Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
- Ps 140:3 — They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
- Ps 140:3 — They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders’ poison is under their lips. Selah.
- Rom 3:4 — 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.