Romans 3:13

11 There is none who understands;
There is none who seeks after God.

12 They have all turned aside;
They have together become unprofitable;
There is none who does good, no, not one.”

13 “Their^a throat is an open tomb;
With their tongues they have practiced deceit”;
^b“The poison of asps is under their lips”;

14 “Whose^a mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.”

15 “Their^a feet are swift to shed blood;

16 Destruction and misery are in their ways;

17 And the way of peace they have not known.”

18 “There^a is no fear of God before their eyes.”

19 Now we know that whatever ^athe law says, it says to those who are under the law, that ^bevery mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become¹ guilty before God.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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Romans 3:13

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 version that the apostle quoted, as the verses cannot be found in any other place with so near an approximation to the apostle' s meaning and words. The verses in question, however, are not found in the Alexandrian MS. But they exist in the Vulgate, the Ethiopic, and the Arabic. As the most ancient copies of the Septuagint do not contain these verses, some contend that the apostle has quoted them from different parts of Scripture; and later transcribers of the Septuagint, finding that the 10th, 11th, and 12th, verses were quoted from the xivth Psalm, imagined that the rest were found originally there too, and so incorporated them in their copies, from the apostle' s text.

Their throat is an open sepulchre - By their malicious and wicked words they bury, as it were, the reputation of all men. The whole of this verse appears to belong to their habit of lying, defamation, slandering, etc., by which they wounded, blasted, and poisoned the reputation of others.

Other Adam Clarke entries containing Romans 3:13:

Psalms 14:3
Psalms 14:7
Psalms 14:7
Psalms 14:7
Romans 1:18
Romans 10:21
Galatians 3:22

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