Acts 8:23

Philip Preaches In Samaria

²² So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that, if possible, this thought of your heart may be forgiven you. ²³ For I see that you are provoked by bitterness and bound by sin.” ²⁴ But Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me both of you, so that nothing of what you have said will come upon me.”

Sin

Hebrews 12:15

See to it that no one falls short of God’s grace; that no root of resentment springs up and causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;

Deuteronomy 29:18-20

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the [false] gods of these nations; so that there will not be among you a root [of idolatry] bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood (bitterness).

Deuteronomy 32:32-33

“For their vine is from the vine of Sodom,
And from the fields of Gomorrah;
Their grapes are grapes of poison,
Their clusters, bitter.

Job 20:14

Yet his food turns [to poison] in his stomach;
It is the venom of vipers within him.

Psalm 116:16

O Lord, truly I am Your servant;
I am Your servant, the son of Your handmaid;
You have unfastened my chains.

Proverbs 5:22

The iniquities done by a wicked man will trap him,
And he will be held with the cords of his sin.

Isaiah 28:22

Now do not carry on as scoffers,
Or the bands which bind you will be made stronger;
For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts [a decree]
Of decisive destruction on all the earth.

Isaiah 58:6

“[Rather] is this not the fast which I choose,
To undo the bonds of wickedness,
To tear to pieces the ropes of the yoke,
To let the oppressed go free
And break apart every [enslaving] yoke?

Jeremiah 4:18

“Your ways and your deeds
Have brought these things on you.
This is your tragedy and doom; how bitter,
How it has touched your heart!”

Jeremiah 9:15

therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them bitter and poisonous water to drink.

Lamentations 3:5

He has besieged and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

Lamentations 3:19

Remember [O Lord] my affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall (bitterness).

John 8:34

Jesus answered, “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, everyone who practices sin habitually is a slave of sin.

Romans 6:17-22

But thank God that though you were slaves of sin, you became obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed.

Titus 3:3

For we too once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various sinful desires and pleasures, spending and wasting our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God did not [even] spare angels that sinned, but threw them into hell and sent them to pits of gloom to be kept [there] for judgment;

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them liberty, when they themselves are the slaves of depravity—for by whatever anyone is defeated and overcome, to that [person, thing, philosophy, or concept] he is continually enslaved.