14 Bible Verses about Being Bitter

looking diligently that no one deviate from the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up impede you, and thereby many be defiled,

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice,

For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the prison of iniquity.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and do not be liars against the truth.

whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;

Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be taken away from you, with all malice, and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another even as God has forgiven you in Christ.

Be ye angry and sin not; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

Follow peace with everyone and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

The foolish son is a grief to his father and bitterness to her that bore him.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness; but it has pleased thee to deliver my life from the pit of corruption, for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

And David was greatly distressed, for the people spoke of stoning him because the soul of all the people was bitter, each one for his sons and for his daughters; but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.

My soul is cut off in my life; therefore, I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

And when Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father.