Acts 8:23

Philip Preaches In Samaria

²² Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that the intent of your heart may be forgiven you. ²³ For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.” ²⁴ “Please pray to the Lord for me,” Simon replied, “so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”

Sin

Hebrews 12:15

Make sure that no one falls short of the grace of God and that no root of bitterness springs up, causing trouble and by it, defiling many.

Deuteronomy 29:18-20

Be sure there is no man, 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. Be sure there is no root among you bearing poisonous and bitter fruit.

Deuteronomy 32:32-33

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

Job 20:14

yet the food in his stomach turns
into cobras’ venom inside him.

Psalm 116:16

Lord, I am indeed Your servant;
I am Your servant, the son of Your female servant.
You have loosened my bonds.

Proverbs 5:22

A wicked man’s iniquities entrap him;
he is entangled in the ropes of his own sin.

Isaiah 28:22

So now, do not mock,
or your shackles will become stronger.
Indeed, I have heard from the Lord God of Hosts
a decree of destruction for the whole land.

Isaiah 58:6

Isn’t the fast I choose:
To break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free,
and to tear off every yoke?

Jeremiah 4:18

Your way of life and your actions
have brought this on you.
This is your punishment. It is very bitter,
because it has reached your heart!

Jeremiah 9:15

Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “I am about to feed this people wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink.

Lamentations 3:5

He has laid siege against me,
encircling me with bitterness and hardship.

Lamentations 3:19

ז ZayinRemember my affliction and my homelessness,
the wormwood and the poison.

John 8:34

Jesus responded, “I assure you: Everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

Romans 6:17-22

But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred to,

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

2 Peter 2:4

For if God didn’t spare the angels who sinned but threw them down into Tartarus and delivered them to be kept in chains of darkness until judgment;

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.