3:13 “Their throats are open graves, 1
they deceive with their tongues,
the poison of asps is under their lips.” 2
8:12 So then, 3 brothers and sisters, 4 we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh
1 tn Grk “their throat is an opened grave.”
2 sn A quotation from Pss 5:9; 140:3.
3 tn There is a double connective here that cannot be easily preserved in English: “consequently therefore,” emphasizing the conclusion of what he has been arguing.
4 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:13.