Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.
New American Standard Bible
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in
King James Version
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Holman Bible
For I see you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.”
International Standard Version
For I see that you're being poisoned by bitterness and you're a prisoner of wickedness!"
A Conservative Version
For I perceive that thou are in the gall of bitterness and the bond of unrighteousness.
American Standard Version
For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.
Amplified
For I see that you are
An Understandable Version
For I can see that your life is as bitter gall [i.e., very evil] and you are enslaved by [your] sins."
Anderson New Testament
For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Common New Testament
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity."
Daniel Mace New Testament
for I perceive you are upon the brink of misery, led captive by your sin.
Darby Translation
for I see thee to be in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness.
Godbey New Testament
for I see thou art in the gall of bitterness and the bond of iniquity.
Goodspeed New Testament
For I see that you are a bitter poison and a bundle of iniquity!"
John Wesley New Testament
For I see, thou art in the gall of bitterness, and the bond of iniquity.
Julia Smith Translation
For I see thee being in the bile of bitterness, and bond of iniquity.
King James 2000
For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For I see you are in {a state of bitter envy} and {bound by unrighteousness}."
Modern King James verseion
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For I perceive that thou art full of bitter gall, and wrapped in iniquity."
Moffatt New Testament
For I see you are a bitter poison and a pack of evil."
Montgomery New Testament
"For I perceive that you still stand in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of unrighteousness."
NET Bible
For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin."
New Heart English Bible
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."
Noyes New Testament
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Sawyer New Testament
for I see you are in the gall of bitterness and bond of wickedness.
The Emphasized Bible
For see that thou servest as a gall-root of bitterness, and a bond of unrighteousness.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For I see that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and the bond of iniquity.
Twentieth Century New Testament
For I see that you have fallen into the 'bitterness of envy' and the 'fetters of sin.'"
Webster
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Weymouth New Testament
For I perceive that you have fallen into the bitterest bondage of unrighteousness."
Williams New Testament
For I see that you are a bitter weed and a bundle of crookedness!"
World English Bible
For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."
Worrell New Testament
for I see that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity."
Worsley New Testament
for I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity.
Youngs Literal Translation
for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive thee being.'
Themes
Bondage, spiritual » General references to the bondage of sin
Bondage, spiritual » Is to sin
Christian ministers » Incorruptible » Peter
Christian ministers » Faithful » Peter
Covetousness » Instances of » Simon magus, in trying to buy the gift of the holy spirit
Gall » Figurative » Gall of bitterness
Hypocrites » Exemplified » Simon
Integrity » Instances of » Peter, when offered money by simon magus
Peter » Rebukes simon, the sorcerer, who desires to purchase this power
Reproof » Faithfulness in » Peter, of simon, the sorcerer
Samaria » City of, built by omri » Visited by philip, peter, and john
Simon » A sorcerer (also called simon magus) » Rebuked by peter
Topics
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Morish
Smith
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 8:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Philip Preaches In Samaria
22 Let your heart be changed, and make prayer to God that you may have forgiveness for your evil thoughts. 23 For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin. 24 And Simon, answering, said, Make prayer for me to the Lord, so that these things which you have said may not come on me.
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Cross References
Hebrews 12:15
Looking with care to see that no man among you in his behaviour comes short of the grace of God; for fear that some bitter root may come up to be a trouble to you, and that some of you may be made unclean by it;
Deuteronomy 29:18-20
So that there may not be among you any man or woman or family or tribe whose heart is turned away from the Lord our God today, to go after other gods and give them worship; or any root among you whose fruit is poison and bitter sorrow;
Deuteronomy 32:32-33
For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:
Job 20:14
His food becomes bitter in his stomach; the poison of snakes is inside him.
Psalm 116:16
O Lord, truly I am your servant; I am your servant, the son of her who is your servant; by you have my cords been broken.
Proverbs 5:22
The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
Isaiah 28:22
And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.
Isaiah 58:6
Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?
Jeremiah 4:18
Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.
Jeremiah 9:15
So the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said, I will give them, even this people, bitter plants for food and bitter water for drink.
Lamentations 3:5
He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.
Lamentations 3:19
Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.
John 8:34
And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin.
Romans 6:17-22
But praise be to God that though you were the servants of sin, you have now given yourselves freely to that form of teaching under which you were placed;
Titus 3:3
For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not have pity for the angels who did evil, but sent them down into hell, to be kept in chains of eternal night till they were judged;
2 Peter 2:19
Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.