No One Is Righteous
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Rom 3:14
In sequence these quotations are taken from Psm. 5:9 (Rom. 3:13); Psm. 140:3 (Rom. 3:13); Psm. 10:7 (Rom. 3:14); Isa. 59:7-8 (Rom. 3:15-17); and Psm. 36:1 (Rom. 3:18). They pertain to three actions: talking (throats… tongues… lips… mouths; Rom. 3:13-14).
What generation in all of history has been guiltier of cursing than the present? Every movie, or at least the vast majority of them, contains terrible cursing. Bitterness and strife are on every hand. Bitterness against parents is perhaps #1 on the list.
This is quoted from Psalm 10:7. It refers to wanting the worst for someone and publicly expressing that desire in caustic, derisive language.
Bitterness could be described as the open, public expression of emotional hostility against one’s enemy.
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