Acts 8:23

Bible in Basic English 1965

For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.

Cross References

Job 20:14

His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.

Psalm 116:16

O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.

Proverbs 5:22

The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.

Isaiah 28:22

And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.

Jeremiah 9:15

So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.

Lamentations 3:19

Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

Lamentations 3:5

He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

John 8:34

And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

Titus 3:3

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

Hebrews 12:15

Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;

2 Peter 2:19

Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;