Romans 3:14

New American Standard Bible

"THEIR MOUTH IS FULL OF CURSING AND BITTERNESS";

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 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.

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

¹ Then what advantage does the Jew have? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? ² Great in every respect. First, that they were entrusted with the actual words of God. ³ What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? ⁴ Far from it! Rather, God must prove to be true, though every person be found a liar, as it is written: "SO THAT YOU ARE JUSTIFIED IN YOUR WORDS, AND PREVAIL WHEN YOU ARE JUDGED." ⁵ But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking from a human viewpoint.) ⁶ Far from it! For otherwise, how will God judge the world? ⁷ But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner? ⁸ And why not say (just as we are slanderously reported and as some claim that we say), "Let's do evil that good may come of it"? Their condemnation is deserved. ⁹ What then? Are we better than they? Not at all; for we have already charged that both Jews and Greeks are all under sin; ¹⁰ as it is written: "THERE IS NO RIGHTEOUS PERSON, 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 cunning than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Has God really said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden'?"

Genesis 3:15
And I will make enemies Of you and the woman, And of your offspring and her Descendant; He shall bruise you on the head, And you shall bruise Him on the heel."

Genesis 3:20
Now the man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 9:6
"Whoever sheds human blood, By man his blood shall be shed, For in the image of God He made mankind.

Leviticus 20:25
'You are therefore to make a distinction between the clean animal and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by animal or by bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground, which I have distinguished for you as unclean.

Psalms 72:9
May the nomads of the desert bow before him, And his enemies lick the dust.

Isaiah 29:4
Then you will be brought low; From the earth you will speak, And from the dust where you are prostrate Your words will come. Your voice will also be like that of a spirit from the ground, And your speech will whisper from the dust.

Isaiah 65:25
"The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent's food. They will do no evil or harm on all My holy mountain," says the LORD.

Micah 7:17
They will lick up dust like a snake, Like reptiles of the earth. They will come trembling out of their fortresses; To the LORD our God they will come in trepidation, And they will be afraid 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.