14 Bible Verses about Being Bitter

Using oversight - lest any one be falling behind from the favour of God, - lest any root of bitterness, springing up above, be causing trouble, and, through it, the many, be defiled:

All bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and outcry, and profane speaking, let it be taken away from you, with all baseness;

For see that thou servest as a gall-root of bitterness, and a bond of unrighteousness.

But, if, bitter jealousy, ye have, and rivalry, in your hearts; be not boasting and showing yourselves false against the truth!

Whose mouth, of cursing and bitterness, is full,

I also, cannot restrain my mouth, - I must speak, in the anguish of my spirit, I must find utterance, in the bitterness of my soul.

All bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and outcry, and profane speaking, let it be taken away from you, with all baseness; And be ye gracious one to another, tenderly affectionate, in favour forgiving one another - even as, God also, in Christ, hath in favour forgiven you;

Be ye angry, and not committing sin, let not the sun be going down upon your angry mood,

Peace, be pursuing, with all, and the obtaining of holiness, - without which no one shall see the Lord:

A vexation to his father, is the son that is a dullard, and a bitterness, to her that bare him.

Lo! for well-being, I had bitterness - bitterness, - But, thou, cleaving unto my soul, hast raised me from the pit of corruption, For thou hast cast, behind thy back all my sins.

And David was in sore distress, for the people had spoken of stoning him, because the souls of all the people were embittered, every man for his own sons and for his own daughters, - but David emboldened himself in Yahweh his God.

My soul doth loathe my life, - I let loose my complaint, I speak, in the bitterness of my soul.

When Esau heard the words of his father, then cried he out with an outcry loud and bitter exceedingly, - and said to his father, Bless even me also, O my father!