Acts 8:23

New American Bible - revised edition

For I see that you are filled with bitter gall and are in the bonds of iniquity.”

Cross References

Isaiah 58:6

Is this not, rather, the fast that I choose: releasing those bound unjustly, untying the thongs of the yoke; Setting free the oppressed, breaking off every yoke?

Proverbs 5:22

By their own iniquities the wicked will be caught, in the meshes of their own sin they will be held fast;

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one be deprived of the grace of God, that no bitter root spring up and cause trouble, through which many may become defiled,

John 8:34

Jesus answered them, “Amen, amen, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, though they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave of whatever overcomes him.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but condemned them to the chains of Tartarus and handed them over to be kept for judgment;

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, deluded, slaves to various desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

Lamentations 3:19

The thought of my wretched homelessness is wormwood and poison;

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged me all around with poverty and hardship;

Jeremiah 9:15

I will scatter them among nations whom neither they nor their ancestors have known; I will send the sword to pursue them until I have completely destroyed them.

Jeremiah 4:18

Your conduct, your deeds, have done this to you; how bitter is this evil of yours, how it reaches to your very heart!

Isaiah 28:22

Now, cease scoffing, lest your bonds be tightened, For I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, the God of hosts, for the whole land.

Psalm 116:16

Lord, I am your servant, your servant, the child of your maidservant; you have loosed my bonds.

Job 20:14

Yet in his stomach the food shall turn; it shall be venom of asps inside him.

Ephesians 4:31

All bitterness, fury, anger, shouting, and reviling must be removed from you, along with all malice.