Acts 8:23

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by wickedness.’

Cross References

Isaiah 58:6

Isn’t this the fast I choose: To break the chains of wickedness, to untie the ropes of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and to tear off every yoke?

Proverbs 5:22

A wicked man’s iniquities will trap him; he will become tangled in the ropes of his own sin.

Hebrews 12:15

Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and defiling many.

John 8:34

Jesus responded, ‘Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God didn’t spare  the angels who sinned but cast them into hell  , and delivered them in chains  of utter darkness to be kept for judgement;

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember  my affliction and my homelessness, the wormwood and the poison.

Lamentations 3:5

He has laid siege against me, encircling me with bitterness and hardship.

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to feed this people wormwood  and give them poisonous water to drink.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your way and your actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. It is very bitter, because it has reached your heart!

Isaiah 28:22

So now, do not scoff, or your shackles will become stronger. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord God of Armies a decree of destruction for the whole land.

Job 20:14

yet the food in his stomach turns into cobras’ venom inside him.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander be removed from you, along with all malice.