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Good News Translation

Romans 3:14

their speech is filled with bitter curses.

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";
Berean Standard Bible
Their mouths are full of cursing and of 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.
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

1 Do the Jews then have any advantage over the Gentiles? Or is there any value in being circumcised? 2 Much, indeed, in every way! In the first place, God trusted his message to the Jews. 3 But what if some of them were not faithful? Does this mean that God will not be faithful? 4 Certainly not! God must be true, even though all human beings are liars. As the scripture says, "You must be shown to be right when you speak; you must win your case when you are being tried." 5 But what if our doing wrong serves to show up more clearly God's doing right? Can we say that God does wrong when he punishes us? (This would be the natural question to ask.) 6 By no means! If God is not just, how can he judge the world? 7 But what if my untruth serves God's glory by making his truth stand out more clearly? Why should I still be condemned as a sinner? 8 Why not say, then, "Let us do evil so that good may come"? Some people, indeed, have insulted me by accusing me of saying this very thing! They will be condemned, as they should be. 9 Well then, are we Jews in any better condition than the Gentiles? Not at all! I have already shown that Jews and Gentiles alike are all under the power of sin. 10 As the Scriptures say: "There is no one who is righteous,

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 snake was the most cunning animal that the Lord God had made. The snake asked the woman, "Did God really tell you not to eat fruit from any tree in the garden?"
Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman hate each other; her offspring and yours will always be enemies. Her offspring will crush your head, and you will bite her offspring's heel."
Genesis 3:20
Adam named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all human beings.
Genesis 9:6
Human beings were made like God, so whoever murders one of them will be killed by someone else.
Leviticus 20:25
So then, you must make a clear distinction between animals and birds that are ritually clean and those that are not. Do not eat unclean animals or birds. I have declared them unclean, and eating them would make you unclean.
Psalms 72:9
The peoples of the desert will bow down before him; his enemies will throw themselves to the ground.
Isaiah 29:4
Jerusalem will be like a ghost struggling to speak from under the ground, a muffled voice coming from the dust.
Isaiah 65:25
Wolves and lambs will eat together; lions will eat straw, as cattle do, and snakes will no longer be dangerous. On Zion, my sacred hill, there will be nothing harmful or evil."
Micah 7:17
They will crawl in the dust like snakes; they will come from their fortresses, trembling and afraid. They will turn in fear to the Lord our God.

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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