Romans 3:13-17

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,

3:17 and the way of peace they have not known.” ⁵ 

[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.

[3:17]  ⁵ sn Rom 3:15-17 is a quotation from Isa 59:7-8.