Discovery BoxRomans 3:13-18 
Context3:13 “Their throats are open graves, 1
they deceive with their tongues,
the poison of asps is under their lips.” 2
3:14 “Their mouths are 3 full of cursing and bitterness.” 4
3:15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood,
3:16 ruin and misery are in their paths,
1 tn Grk “their throat is an opened grave.”
2 sn A quotation from Pss 5:9; 140:3.
3 tn Grk “whose mouth is.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
4 sn A quotation from Ps 10:7.
5 sn Rom 3:15-17 is a quotation from Isa 59:7-8.
