Acts 8:23
For I perceive that you are full of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Hebrews 12:15
See that no one misses the grace of God; that no bitter root spring up to cause trouble and defile many.
Deuteronomy 29:18-20
Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from Jehovah our God to serve the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.
Deuteronomy 32:32-33
Their vine is like the vine of Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of anger. Their clusters are bitter.
Job 20:14
yet his food will turn sour in his stomach; it will become the venom of serpents within him.
Psalm 116:16
O Jehovah, I am indeed your servant. I am your servant, the son of your handmaid. You have freed me from my chains.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities will catch the wicked. He will be held with the cords of his sins.
Isaiah 28:22
Do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from the Sovereign Lord Jehovah of Hosts that destruction is determined (decreed) upon the whole earth.
Isaiah 58:6
Is this not the fast I choose to loosen the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free and break every yoke?
Jeremiah 4:18
You brought this on yourself. This is your punishment. It is bitter. It breaks your heart.
Jeremiah 9:15
Therefore Jehovah of Hosts, the God of Israel says: 'Behold! I will feed this people with wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.'
Lamentations 3:5
He built a wall against me, shutting me in with hardship and bitter sorrow.
Lamentations 3:19
Remember my trouble and my wandering, the bitterroot and the poison.
John 8:34
Jesus answered: Truly I tell you every one who commits sin is a slave of sin.
Romans 6:17-22
But thanks to God, that you were the servants of sin yet you became obedient from the heart to the teachings delivered to you.
Titus 3:3
For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
2 Peter 2:4
God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to captivity in pits of darkness reserved for judgment!
2 Peter 2:19
They promise them freedom, while they are bondservants of corruption. A man is brought into bondage by one and enslaved by another.