Acts 8:23

Easy To Read Version

I see that you are full of bitter jealousy and ruled by sin.”

Cross References

Job 20:14

But that evil will become poison\par in his stomach.\par It will be like bitter poison inside him,\par like a snake’s poison.\par

Psalm 116:16

I am your servant,\par a child of one of your servant women.\par Lord, you were my first teacher!\par

Proverbs 5:22

The sins of an evil person will trap him. His sins will be like ropes holding him.

Isaiah 28:22

Now, you must not fight against those things. If you do, the ropes around you will become tighter.

Isaiah 58:6

“I will tell you the kind of special day I want—a day to make people free. I want a day that you take the burdens off people. I want a day when you make the troubled people free. I want a day when you take the burdens from their shoulders.

Jeremiah 4:18

“The way you lived and the things you did\par brought this trouble to you.\par It is your evil that made your life so hard.\par Your evil life brought the pain\par that hurts deep in your heart.”\par

Jeremiah 9:15

So the Lord All-Powerful,\par the God of Israel, says,\par “I will soon make the people of Judah\par eat bitter food.\par I will make them drink poisoned water.\par

Lamentations 3:19

Lord, remember,\par I am very sad.\par And I have no home.\par Remember the bitter poison (punishment)\par that you gave me.\par

Lamentations 3:5

The Lord built up bitterness\par and trouble against me.\par He made bitterness and trouble\par come all around me.\par

John 8:34

Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth. Every person that sins is a slave. Sin is his master.

Titus 3:3

Grace (kindness) and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 12:15

Be careful that no person fails to get God’s grace (kindness). Be careful that no person becomes like a bitter weed growing among you. A person like that can ruin your whole group.

2 Peter 2:19

These false teachers promise that those people will have freedom. But the false teachers themselves are not free. They are slaves of things that will be destroyed. A person is a slave to the thing that controls him.

2 Peter 2:4

When angels sinned, God did not let them go free without punishment. No! God sent them to hell. God put those angels in caves of darkness. They are being held there until the judgment.