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Romans 3:13

Romans 3:13
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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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. These words are taken from Psa 10:7, by cursing is meant, cursing of God, which is sometimes internal with the heart, and sometimes external with the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Their throat ... - This expression is taken from Psa 5:9, literally from the Septuagint. The design of the psalm is to reprove those who were false, traitorous, slanderous, etc. Psa 5:6. The psalmist…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

Their throat is an open sepulchre - This and all the following verses to the end of the 18th are found in the Septuagint, but not in the Hebrew text; and it is most evident that it was from this…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Romans 3:1-18

I. Here the apostle answers several objections, which might be made, to clear his way. No truth so plain and evident but wicked wits and corrupt carnal hearts will have something to say against it;…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

an open sepulchre Perhaps as "uttering abomination." "Emitting the noisome exhalations of a putrid heart (Bp Home on Psa 5:9).