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The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Romans 3:14

Their mouths are full of cursing and of bitterness.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Bigotry;   Boasting;   Crime;   Depravity of Man;   Quotations and Allusions;   Speaking;   Wicked (People);   Thompson Chain Reference - Bitterness;   Blasphemy-Profanity;   Cursing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fall of Man, the;   Life, Eternal;   Swearing, Profane;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Sin;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Mouth;   Persecution;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Calvinists;   Justification;   Man;   Zeal;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Fall of Man;   Sin;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Romans, the Epistle to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Accountability, Age of;   Anthropology;   God;   Innocence, Innocency;   Regeneration;   Romans, Book of;   Sin;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Law;   Quotations;   Romans, Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Adam;   Bitterness ;   Brotherhood (2);   Ephesians Epistle to the;   Law;   Quotations;   Romans Epistle to the;   Unity;   World;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Bitterness, Gall of;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Fall;   Righteousness;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Atonement;   Galatians, Epistle to the;   Justification;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for July 14;   Every Day Light - Devotion for February 16;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
King James Version (1611)
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse:
King James Version
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
English Standard Version
"Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
New American Standard Bible
"THEIR MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS";
New Century Version
"Their mouths are full of cursing and hate." Psalm 10:7
Amplified Bible
"THEIR MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"WHOSE MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS";
Legacy Standard Bible
"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness";
Contemporary English Version
and they say nothing but bitter curses.
Complete Jewish Bible
Their mouths are full of curses and bitterness.
Darby Translation
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
Easy-to-Read Version
"Their mouths are full of cursing and angry words."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse.
George Lamsa Translation
Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.
Good News Translation
their speech is filled with bitter curses.
Lexham English Bible
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Literal Translation
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
American Standard Version
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Bible in Basic English
Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:
Hebrew Names Version
"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
International Standard Version
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Etheridge Translation
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness,
Murdock Translation
Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Whose mouth is full of cursyng and bytternesse.
English Revised Version
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
World English Bible
"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."
Weymouth's New Testament
"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The mouth of whiche is ful of cursyng and bitternesse;
Update Bible Version
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Webster's Bible Translation
Whose mouth [is] full of cursing and bitterness.
New English Translation
" Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness ."
New King James Version
"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness." Psalms 10:7 ">[fn]
New Living Translation
"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
New Life Bible
Their mouths speak bad things against God. They say bad things about other people.
New Revised Standard
"Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Whose mouth, of cursing and bitterness, is full,
Douay-Rheims Bible
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Revised Standard Version
"Their mouth is full of curses and bitterness."
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Whose mouthes are full of coursynge and bitternes.
Young's Literal Translation
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Their mouth is full of cursynge and bytternesse.
Mace New Testament (1729)
whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Their mouths curse and complain.

Contextual Overview

1What, then, is the advantage of being a Jew? Or what is the value of circumcision? 2Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God. 3What if some did not have faith? Will their lack of faith nullify God's faithfulness? 4Certainly not! Let God be true and every man a liar. As it is written: "So that You may be proved right when You speak and victorious when You judge." 5But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms. 6Certainly not! In that case, how could God judge the world? 7However, if my falsehood accentuates God's truthfulness, to the increase of His glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner? 8Why not say, as some slanderously claim that we say, "Let us do evil that good may result?" Their condemnation is deserved! 9What then? Are we any better? Not at all. For we have already made the charge that Jews and Greeks alike are all under sin. 10As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Psalms 10:7, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 109:17, Psalms 109:18, James 3:10

Reciprocal: Psalms 50:19 - tongue Psalms 140:3 - adders' Matthew 15:11 - but Luke 6:45 - and an Luke 18:2 - which Acts 23:15 - that he Ephesians 4:29 - no Ephesians 4:31 - bitterness Colossians 3:19 - bitter James 3:6 - a world James 3:9 - therewith curse

Cross-References

Genesis 3:1
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat of any tree in the garden?'"
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel."
Genesis 3:20
And Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man his blood will be shed; for in His own image God has made mankind.
Leviticus 20:25
You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.
Psalms 72:9
May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
Isaiah 29:4
You will be brought low, you will speak from the ground, and out of the dust your words will be muffled. Your voice will be like a spirit from the ground; your speech will whisper out of the dust.
Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will do no harm nor destruction on all My holy mountain," says the LORD.
Micah 7:17
They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will crawl from their holes in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. These words are taken from Psalms 10:7, by cursing is meant, cursing of God, which is sometimes internal with the heart, and sometimes external with the mouth, as here; and of all good men, though without cause, and to no purpose with respect to the persons they curse, since God has blessed them, and they are blessed, and greatly to their own detriment, for, in the issue, their curses will be turned against themselves. There is also a cursing of superiors, as parents, masters, magistrates, kings, and governors; which is a sore evil, and attended with bad consequences; likewise of themselves, and their fellow creatures: and "the mouth [being] full [of it]", denotes the frequency of the sin; scarce anything else comes out of it but cursing; which discovers the sad corruption of the heart; "for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh", Matthew 12:34. By "bitterness" is meant, either sin in general, which is "an evil and bitter [thing]", Jeremiah 2:19, in its nature and effects; or sinful words, such as oaths, curses, imprecations, all wrathful and deceitful words.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whose mouth - Psalms 10:7. The apostle has not quoted this literally, but has given the sense. David in the psalm is describing his bitter enemies.

Cursing - Reproachful and opprobrious language, such as Shimei used in relation to David; 2 Samuel 16:5, 2 Samuel 16:7-8.

Bitterness - In the psalm, deceits. The word “bitterness” is used to denote severity, harshness, cruelty; reproachful and malicious words.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Romans 3:14. Whose mouth is full of cursing, &c.] They never speak but in profane oaths, blasphemies, and malice.


 
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