Romans 3:13-16

3:13 “Their throats are open graves, ¹ 

they deceive with their tongues,

the poison of asps is under their lips.” ² 

3:14 “Their mouths are ³  full of cursing and bitterness.” ⁴ 

3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,

3:16 ruin and misery are in their paths,

[3:13]  ¹ tn Grk “their throat is an opened grave.”

[3:13]  ² sn A quotation from Pss 5:9; 140:3.

[3:14]  ³ tn Grk “whose mouth is.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

[3:14]  ⁴ sn A quotation from Ps 10:7.