Romans 3:13 Cross References - NSB

¹³ »Their throat is an open grave. They have practiced deceit with their tongues. The poison of snakes is under their lips.« (Psalm 5:9)

³³ »Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras).

¹⁴ yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him. ¹⁵ »He will spit out the riches he swallowed. God will make his stomach vomit them up. ¹⁶ »He will suck the poison of serpents. The fangs of an adder (cobra) will kill him.

³ Jehovah will destroy every flattering lip and every bragging tongue

⁹ There is nothing truthful in what they say! Their inward part is destruction. Their throat is an open grave. They flatter with their tongue.

⁴ They say: »We will overcome with our tongues. With lips such as ours, who can be our master?«

³ The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit and he ceased to be wise and do good.

⁴ I am among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows. Their tongue is a sharp sword.

² Your tongue makes up wickedness. It is like a sharp razor, you master of deceit.

³ They make their tongues as sharp as a snake's fang. Their lips hide the venom of poisonous snakes.

³ Your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers are desecrated with sin. You speak lies, and you mutter wicked things.

¹⁶ »Their quiver is like an open grave. All of them are mighty men.

³ They bend their tongue like their bow. Lies and not truth prevail in the land. They move from evil to evil. »They do not know me,« says Jehovah. ⁴ »Let everyone be on guard against his neighbor. Do not trust any brother because every brother deals craftily (cunningly), and every neighbor goes about as a slanderer. ⁵ »Everyone deceives his neighbor and does not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They wear themselves out committing sin.

⁷ ‘»Did you not see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said ‘Jehovah declares,’ but it is not I who has spoken?«’

³⁴ »You offspring of vipers. How can you who are evil speak good things? Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ »The good man performs good things out of his good treasure. The evil man performs evil things out of his evil treasure.

²⁷ »Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that appear beautiful on the outside. They are full of dead men’s bones and uncleanness on the inside. ²⁸ »You appear righteous to men. However, inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

⁴ Certainly not! But let God be true, and every man false. It is written: So that you should be proved righteous in your words and should overcome when you are judged. ⁵ The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles! ⁶ The tongue is like fire, the place of iniquity among our members. It defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of our life. It is set ablaze like the ever-burning fires in the Valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna: symbolic of total destruction). ⁷ Every kind of beast and bird, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and has been tamed by mankind. ⁸ But no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil. It is full of deadly poison.