Acts 8:23
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.””
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“For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.””
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Acts 8:23 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
- Deuteronomy 32:32But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter.
- Job 20:14yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
- Psalms 116:16Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.
- Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
- Isaiah 28:22So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
- Isaiah 58:6Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
- Jeremiah 4:18“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
- Jeremiah 9:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
- Lamentations 3:5He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
- Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
- John 8:34Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
- Romans 6:17But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.
- Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- Hebrews 12:15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
- 2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
- 2 Peter 2:19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
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