KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Romans 3:14–18
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Romans 3:14
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
14Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitternesse:
Romans 3:15
15Their feet are swift to shed blood:
15Their feet are swift to shed blood.
Romans 3:16
16Destruction and misery are in their ways:
16Destruction & misery are in their wayes:
Romans 3:17
17And the way of peace have they not known:
17And the way of peace haue they not knowen.
Romans 3:18
18There is no fear of God before their eyes.
18There is no feare of God before their eyes.
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DEFINED WORDS
Romans 3:14
The opening used for eating and speaking; also an opening, edge, command, or testimony by extension.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The uttering of a curse, denunciation, or evil speech.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
bitterness
A bitter quality or taste; figuratively, severe grief, distress, resentment, or hostility.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
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Romans 3:15
The current of a stream. In domestic affairs, a reel or turning.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · KJV usage (PCE)
To pour out, spill, cast off, or cause to flow, especially blood.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The fluid that circulates through the body and is associated with life; in KJV usage, also life, bloodshed and its guilt, kindred, human nature, blood shed in sacrifice, or the juice of grapes.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (alignment witness) · Webster 1828
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Romans 3:16
MEANING IN THIS VERSE
Destruction
Ruin, overthrow, death, wasting, or the calamity and loss produced by destroying.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Great distress, affliction, suffering, or wretchedness.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Romans 3:17
Freedom from war, strife, disturbance, or inward trouble; quietness, reconciliation, safety, or well-being, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Recognized, understood, perceived, acknowledged, or made evident.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Romans 3:18
Alarm or dread; reverent awe; as a verb, to be afraid, revere, or cause fear.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
The organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, judgment, or presence, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE)
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From verse 14
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Open the full verse study7His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and fraud: under his tongue is mischief and vanity.
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Open the full verse study17As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.
18As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
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Open the full verse study12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
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Open the full verse study10Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
From verse 15
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Open the full verse study7Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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Open the full verse study16For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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Open the full verse study18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
From verse 17
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Open the full verse study8The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.
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Open the full verse study1THEREFORE being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
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Open the full verse study79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.
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Open the full verse study14Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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Open the full verse study21There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.
From verse 18
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Open the full verse study1THE transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
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Open the full verse study17Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
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Open the full verse study6By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil.
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Open the full verse study13The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
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Open the full verse study11And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife’s sake.
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Open the full verse study40But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?
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Open the full verse study5And a voice came out of the throne, saying, Praise our God, all ye his servants, and ye that fear him, both small and great.
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