'Bitter' in the Bible

"A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and bitter lamentation: It was Rachel bewailing her children, and she refused to be comforted because there were no more."

And they were bitter against him. But Jesus said to them, A prophet is nowhere without honour but in his country and among his family.

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

They gave him wine mixed with bitter drink: and after tasting it, he took no more.

And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying,

And straight away one of them went quickly, and took a sponge, and made it full of bitter wine, and put it on a rod and gave him drink.

Is not this the woodworker, the son of Mary, and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were bitter against him.

And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able;

And one of them went quickly and, getting a sponge full of bitter wine, put it on a rod, and gave it to him for drink, saying, Let be; let us see if Elijah will come to take him down.

and the people stood looking on. The Rulers, too, repeatedly uttered their bitter taunts. "This fellow," they said, "saved others: let him save himself, if he is God's Anointed, the Chosen One."

And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine

And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.

Now the Jews said bitter things about Jesus because of his words, I am the bread which came down from heaven.

If, to avoid breaking the Law of Moses, a man undergoes circumcision on the Sabbath, why are you angry with Me for making a man’s whole body well on the Sabbath?

Now there was a vessel ready, full of bitter wine, and they put a sponge full of it on a stick and put it to his mouth.

For I see you are in {a state of bitter envy} and {bound by unrighteousness}."

And he was in bitter hostility with the Tyrians and Sidonians; but they came to him with one accord, and, having gained Blastus the king's chamberlain, sought peace, because their country was nourished by the king's.

But those Jews who had not the faith, made the minds of the Gentiles bitter against the brothers.

And I often punished them [making them suffer] in all the synagogues and tried to force them to blaspheme; and in my extreme rage at them, I kept hunting them even to foreign cities [harassing and persecuting them].

Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:

that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may not find you to be what I desire, and that you may find me to be what you do not desire; that perhaps there may be contention, jealousy, bitter feeling, party spirit, ill-natured talk, backbiting, undue eulogy, unrest;

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

but the former preach Christ [insincerely] out of selfish ambition [just self-promotion], thinking that they are causing me distress in my imprisonment.

In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

Bitter talk of men who, being evil in mind and dead to what is true, take the faith to be a way of making profit.

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,

Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,

Alexander the metal-worker showed bitter hostility towards me: the Lord will requite him according to his doings.

Just consider and meditate on Him who endured from sinners such bitter hostility against Himself [consider it all in comparison with your trials], so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up and causes you trouble, or many of you will become defiled.

For you know that later on, when he wanted [to regain title to] his inheritance of the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no opportunity for repentance [there was no way to repair what he had done, no chance to recall the choice he had made], even though he sought for it with [bitter] tears.

Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.

Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.

And I went unto the angel, and said unto him, Give me the little book. And he said unto me, Take it, and eat it up; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey.

And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.