Romans 3:13

Appointing The Twelve Apostles

¹² All have turned away;
all alike have become useless.
There is no one who does what is good,
not even one.
¹³ Their throat is an open grave;
they deceive with their tongues.
Vipers’ venom is under their lips.
¹⁴ Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

Deal Treacherously

Throat is an Open Tomb

Deal Treacherously

Psalm 5:9

For there is nothing reliable in what they say;
destruction is within them;
their throat is an open grave;
they flatter with their tongues.

Psalm 140:3

They make their tongues
as sharp as a snake’s bite;
viper’s venom is under their lips.Selah

Deuteronomy 32:33

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

Psalm 12:3-4

May the Lord cut off all flattering lips
and the tongue that speaks boastfully.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are malicious and deceptive;
he has stopped acting wisely and doing good.

Psalm 52:2

Like a sharpened razor,
your tongue devises destruction,
working treachery.

Psalm 57:4

I am surrounded by lions;
I lie down with those who devour men.
Their teeth are spears and arrows;
their tongues are sharp swords.

Isaiah 59:3

For your hands are defiled with blood
and your fingers, with iniquity;
your lips have spoken lies,
and your tongues mutter injustice.

Jeremiah 5:16

Their quiver is like an open grave;
they are all mighty warriors.

Jeremiah 9:3-5

They bent their tongues like their bows;
lies and not faithfulness prevail in the land,
for they proceed from one evil to another,
and they do not take Me into account.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

Ezekiel 13:7

Didn’t you see a false vision and speak a lying divination when you proclaimed, ‘This is the Lord’s declaration,’ even though I had not spoken?

Matthew 12:34-35

Brood of vipers! How can you speak good things when you are evil? For the mouth speaks from the overflow of the heart.

Matthew 23:27-28

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

Romans 3:4

Absolutely not! God must be true, even if everyone is a liar, as it is written:

That You may be justified in Your words
and triumph when You judge.

James 3:5-8

So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites.

Job 20:14-16

yet the food in his stomach turns
into cobras’ venom inside him.