Acts 8:23

New International Version

For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”

Cross References

Job 20:14

yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.

Psalm 116:16

Truly I am your servant, Lord; I serve you just as my mother did; you have freed me from my chains.

Proverbs 5:22

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare them; the cords of their sins hold them fast.

Isaiah 28:22

Now stop your mocking, or your chains will become heavier; the Lord, the Lord Almighty, has told me of the destruction decreed against the whole land.

Isaiah 58:6

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

Jeremiah 4:18

“Your own conduct and actions have brought this on you. This is your punishment. How bitter it is! How it pierces to the heart!”

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore this is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: “See, I will make this people eat bitter food and drink poisoned water.

Lamentations 3:19

I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

John 8:34

Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

Ephesians 4:31

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.

Titus 3:3

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for “people are slaves to whatever has mastered them.”

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;