Acts 8:23

The English Standar Version

For I see that you are in the gall[3] of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity."

Cross References

Job 20:14

yet his food is turned in his stomach; it is the venom of cobras within him.

Psalm 116:16

O LORD, I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities of the wicked ensnare him, and he is held fast in the cords of his sin.

Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord GOD of hosts against the whole land.

Isaiah 58:6

"Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed[2] go free, and to break every yoke?

Jeremiah 4:18

Your ways and your deeds have brought this upon you. This is your doom, and it is bitter; it has reached your very heart."

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will feed this people with bitter food, and give them poisonous water to drink.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!

Lamentations 3:5

he has besieged and enveloped me with bitterness and tribulation;

John 8:34

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave[2] to sin.

Ephesians 4:31

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no "root of bitterness" springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves[6] of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell[1] and committed them to chains[2] of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment;