Bible verse
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
Romans 3:13 · BSB
The verses around it, from Romans 3.
9 What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin.
10 As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one.
11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
12 All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one.”
13 “Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
14 “Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood;
16 ruin and misery lie in their wake,
17 and the way of peace they have not known.”
KJV
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 used deceit: The poison of asps is under their lips:
ERV
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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