yet their food is turned in their stomachs; it is the venom of asps within them.
Acts 8:23 - New Revised Standard Version For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and the chains of wickedness.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in a bond forged by iniquity [to fetter souls]. [Isa. 58:6.] American Standard Version (1901) For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity. Common English Bible for I see that your bitterness has poisoned you and evil has you in chains.” Catholic Public Domain Version For I perceive you to be in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I see thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bonds of iniquity. |
yet their food is turned in their stomachs; it is the venom of asps within them.
O Lord, I am your servant; I am your servant, the child of your serving girl. You have loosed my bonds.
The iniquities of the wicked ensnare them, and they are caught in the toils of their sin.
Now therefore do not scoff, or your bonds will be made stronger; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.
Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of injustice, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?
Your ways and your doings have brought this upon you. This is your doom; how bitter it is! It has reached your very heart.”
Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: I am feeding this people with wormwood, and giving them poisonous water to drink.
The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall!
Jesus answered them, “Very truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.
Put away from you all bitterness and wrath and anger and wrangling and slander, together with all malice,
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.
See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springs up and causes trouble, and through it many become defiled.
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption; for people are slaves to whatever masters them.
For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of deepest darkness to be kept until the judgment;