Romans 3:14

New Life Version

Their mouths speak bad things against God. They say bad things about other people.

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.

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 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 have anything that those who are not Jews do not have? What good does it do to go through the religious act of becoming a Jew? ² Yes, the Jews have much more in every way. First of all, God gave the Jews His Law. ³ If some of them were not faithful, does it mean that God will not be faithful? ⁴ No, not at all! God is always true even if every man lies. The Holy Writings say, "Speak the truth and you will not be proven guilty." ⁵ If our sins show how right God is, what can we say? Is it wrong for God to punish us for it? (I am speaking as men do.) ⁶ No, not at all! If it were wrong for God to punish us, how could He judge the world? ⁷ If my lies honor God by showing how true He is, why am I still being judged as a sinner? ⁸ Why not say, "Let us sin that good will come from it." (Some people have said I talk like this!) They will be punished as they should be. ⁹ What about it then? Are we Jews better than the people who are not Jews? Not at all! I have already said that Jews and the people who are not Jews are all sinners. ¹⁰ The Holy Writings say, "There is not one person who is right with God. No, 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 snake was more able to fool others than any animal of the field which the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God say that you should not eat from any tree in the garden?"

Genesis 3:15
And I will make you and the woman hate each other, and your seed and her seed will hate each other. He will crush your head, and you will crush his heel."

Genesis 3:20
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.

Genesis 9:6
Whoever takes the life of a man will have his life taken. For God made man to be like Him.

Leviticus 20:25
You are to know the difference between the clean animal and the animal that is unclean, and between the clean bird and the bird that is unclean. Do not make yourselves a sinful people with animal or bird or anything that moves on the ground, which I have set apart from you as being unclean.

Psalms 72:9
Those who live in the desert will put their faces to the ground before Him. And those who hate Him will kiss the dust.

Isaiah 29:4
Then you will be brought low. From the earth you will speak. Your words will come from the dust. Your voice will be like that of a spirit from the ground. Your quiet speaking will come from the dust.

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb will eat together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. And dust will be the snake's food. They will not hurt or destroy in all My holy mountain," says the Lord.

Micah 7:17
They will eat the dust like a snake, like animals that move along the ground. They will come out of their strong-places shaking with fear. They will come in much fear to the Lord our God, 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.