13 Their throat is an open sepulchre: with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Romans 3:13 Cross References - Worsley
Matthew 12:34-35
Matthew 23:27-28
27 Wo unto you scribes and pharisees, hypocrites; who are like whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful without, but within are full of the bones of the dead, and all manner of filthiness;
28 so do ye likewise outwardly appear to men to be righteous, but within are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Romans 3:4
4 God forbid: yea, let God be acknowledged true, though every man be a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest overcome, when thou judgest.
5 So the tongue is a small part of the body, yet boasteth great things. Behold how much fuel a little fire kindleth!
6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our several parts, defiling the whole body, inflaming the course of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
7 For every kind of wild beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and fishes, is tamed and hath been tamed by mankind:
8 but the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.