Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to 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.
Bible in Basic English
For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.
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."
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
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Morish
Smith
Word Count of 37 Translations in Acts 8:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Philip Preaches In Samaria
22 Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord that he may perhaps forgive you for the intent of your heart. 23 For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin." 24 But Simon replied, "You pray to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said may happen to me."
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Cross References
Hebrews 12:15
See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through him many become defiled.
Deuteronomy 29:18-20
Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the Lord our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.
Deuteronomy 32:32-33
For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter.
Job 20:14
his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
Psalm 116:16
Yes, Lord! I am indeed your servant; I am your lowest slave. You saved me from death.
Proverbs 5:22
The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
Isaiah 28:22
So now, do not mock, or your chains will become heavier! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction, from the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, against the entire land.
Isaiah 58:6
No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.
Jeremiah 4:18
"The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart."
Jeremiah 9:15
So then, listen to what I, the Lord God of Israel who rules over all, say. 'I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
Lamentations 3:5
He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
Lamentations 3:19
(Zayin) Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.
John 8:34
Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.
Romans 6:17-22
But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to,
Titus 3:3
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
2 Peter 2:4
For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,
2 Peter 2:19
Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.