They offered Him wine, mixed with aromatic spices, but He refused to accept it. [Note: Matt. 27:34 calls this "gall," a bitter drug for the purpose of dulling the pain of crucifixion].

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 he went outside and burst into bitter tears.

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, circumcision, a man receiveth, on Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, with me, are ye bitter as gall, because, a whole man, I made, well, on 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.

This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees,

For I see that you are a bitter weed and a bundle of crookedness!"

Now Herod cherished a bitter grudge against the people of Tyre and Sidon. So in a united body they came to meet him, and after winning the favor of Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended for its food supply upon the king's country.

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].

Their mouths are full of bitter cursing.

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.

So to keep me from being too much elated a bitter physical affliction was sent to me, a very messenger of Satan, to harass me, to keep me from being too much elated.

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 do not be bitter against them.

by hindering us from speaking words of salvation to the Gentiles. So they would fill up the measure of their sins to the last drop! But the Wrath is on them to the bitter end!

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 coppersmith, manifested bitter hostility toward me. The Lord will requite him according to his works.

harden not your hearts, as in that bitter provocation, at the day of the temptation in the wilderness;

while it is said, To-day, if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the bitter provocation.

In the days of his flesh, with bitter cries and tears, he offered prayers and supplications to Him who was able to save him from death; and he was heard, because of his godly fear.

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.

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;

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.

Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

My brethren, whether is the fig-tree able to produce olives, or the vine figs? Neither is the bitter fountain able to produce sweet water.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

For where bitter zeal and strife is, there is unquietness and every evil work.

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;

to execute judgment against all men, and to convict all the ungodly of all their deeds of ungodliness which they have impiously committed, and of all the bitter words which impious offenders have spoken against him.

The name of the star is called "Wormwood." One third of the waters became wormwood. Many people died from the waters, because they were made bitter.

I went to the angel, telling him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, "Take it, and eat it up. It will make your stomach bitter, but in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey."

I took the little scroll out of the angel's hand, and ate it up. It was as sweet as honey in my mouth. When I had eaten it, my stomach was made bitter.