Romans 3:13

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Romans 3:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

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;

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 5:9

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quivers are like open graves; they are all mighty men.

Matthew 23:27

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Matthew 23:28

In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Romans 3:4

Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: “So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge.”

Psalms 12:3

May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue.

Psalms 12:4

They say, “With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips—who can be our master?”

Psalms 36:3

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

Psalms 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.

Psalms 57:4

My soul is among the lions; I lie down with ravenous beasts— with men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are stained with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, and your tongue mutters injustice.

Jeremiah 9:3

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 9:4

“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

Jeremiah 9:5

Each one betrays his friend; no one tells the truth. They have taught their tongues to lie; they wear themselves out committing iniquity.

Ezekiel 13:7

Haven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ even though I have not spoken?

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Matthew 12:35

The good man brings good things out of his good store of treasure, and the evil man brings evil things out of his evil store of treasure.

James 3:5

In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.

James 3:6

The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

James 3:7

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles, and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man,

James 3:8

but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison.

Deuteronomy 32:33

Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.

Job 20:14

yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.

Job 20:15

He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.

Job 20:16

He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.

Psalms 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah