Acts 8:23

For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”

Cross References (17)

  • Proverbs 5:22 (5)

    The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.

  • Isaiah 58:6 (5)

    Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the op

  • Hebrews 12:15 (4)

    See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and de

  • John 8:34 (4)

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

  • Titus 3:3 (3)

    For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in m

  • 2 Peter 2:19 (2)

    They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered

  • Lamentations 3:5 (2)

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

  • Deuteronomy 32:32–33 (2)

    But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are

  • Romans 6:17–22 (2)

    But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which y

  • Isaiah 28:22 (2)

    So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of d

  • Deuteronomy 29:18–20 (2)

    Make 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

  • 2 Peter 2:4 (2)

    For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness t

  • Psalms 116:16 (2)

    Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.

  • Jeremiah 9:15 (2)

    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give th

  • Jeremiah 4:18 (2)

    “Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the he

  • Lamentations 3:19 (2)

    Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.

  • Job 20:14 (1)

    yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.