Romans 3:13

Appointing The Twelve Apostles

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“All have turned aside, together they have become useless;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”
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“Their throat is an open grave;
They [habitually] deceive with their tongues.”
“The venom of asps is beneath their lips.”
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“Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

Deal Treacherously

Throat is an Open Tomb

Deal Treacherously

Psalm 5:9

For there is nothing trustworthy or reliable or truthful in what they say;
Their heart is destruction [just a treacherous chasm, a yawning gulf of lies].
Their throat is an open grave;
They [glibly] flatter with their [silken] tongue.

Psalm 140:3

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s;
Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.

Deuteronomy 32:33

“Their wine is the venom of serpents,
And the deadly poison of vipers.

Psalm 12:3-4

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
The tongue that speaks great things [in boasting];

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful;
He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

Psalm 52:2

Your tongue devises destruction,
Like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Psalm 57:4

My life is among lions;
I must lie among those who breathe out fire—
The sons of men whose teeth are spears and arrows,
And their tongue a sharp sword.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood
And your fingers with wickedness [with sin, with injustice, with wrongdoing];
Your lips have spoken lies,
Your tongue mutters wickedness.

Jeremiah 5:16

“Their quiver is [filled with the dead] like an open grave;
They are all mighty men [heroes of their nation].

Jeremiah 9:3-5

“They bend their tongue like their bow;
[Their] lies and not truth prevail and grow strong in the land;
For they proceed from evil to evil,
And they do not know and understand and acknowledge Me,” says the Lord.

Ezekiel 13:7

Did you not see (make up) a false vision and speak a lying divination when you said, ‘The Lord declares,’ but it is not I who have spoken?”’”

Matthew 12:34-35

You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.

Matthew 23:27-28

“Woe to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean.

Romans 3:4

Certainly not! Let God be found true [as He will be], though every person be found a liar, just as it is written [in Scripture],

“That You may be justified in Your words,
And prevail when You are judged [by sinful men].”

James 3:5-8

In the same sense, the tongue is a small part of the body, and yet it boasts of great things.

See [by comparison] how great a forest is set on fire by a small spark!

Job 20:14-16

Yet his food turns [to poison] in his stomach;
It is the venom of vipers within him.