Acts 8:23

Good News Translation (US Version)

For I see that you are full of bitter envy and are a prisoner of sin.”

Cross References

Isaiah 58:6

“The kind of fasting I want is this: Remove the chains of oppression and the yoke of injustice, and let the oppressed go free.

Proverbs 5:22

The sins of the wicked are a trap. They get caught in the net of their own sin.

Hebrews 12:15

Guard against turning back from the grace of God. Let no one become like a bitter plant that grows up and causes many troubles with its poison.

John 8:34

Jesus said to them, “I am telling you the truth: everyone who sins is a slave of sin.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom while they themselves are slaves of destructive habits—for we are slaves of anything that has conquered us.

2 Peter 2:4

God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell, where they are kept chained in darkness, waiting for the Day of Judgment.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, and wrong. We were slaves to passions and pleasures of all kinds. We spent our lives in malice and envy; others hated us and we hated them.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my pain, my homelessness, is bitter poison.

Lamentations 3:5

He has shut me in a prison of misery and anguish.

Jeremiah 9:15

So then, listen to what I, the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, will do: I will give my people bitter plants to eat and poison to drink.

Jeremiah 4:18

Judah, you have brought this on yourself by the way you have lived and by the things you have done. Your sin has caused this suffering; it has stabbed you through the heart.

Isaiah 28:22

Don't laugh at the warning I am giving you! If you do, it will be even harder for you to escape. I have heard the Lord Almighty's decision to destroy the whole country.

Psalm 116:16

I am your servant, Lord; I serve you just as my mother did. You have saved me from death.

Job 20:14

But in their stomachs the food turns bitter, as bitter as any poison could be.

Ephesians 4:31

Get rid of all bitterness, passion, and anger. No more shouting or insults, no more hateful feelings of any sort.