The word ????, 'gall,' occurs in Mt 27:34. and the word for ' bitterness,' ??????, in Ro 3:14; Eph 4:31; Heb 12:15. The translation in Ac 8:23 is literal, except that it should be 'a gall of bitterness.' Peter saw that Simon was still in the state of nature which is only bitterness.
they offered him a drink of wine mixed with gall. But when he tasted it, he refused to drink it.
For I see that you're being poisoned by bitterness and you're a prisoner of wickedness!"
Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.
Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, quarreling, and slander be put away from you, along with all hatred.
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.
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