14 Bible Verses about Being Bitter

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

For I see that you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bondage of iniquity."

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

"Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness."

"Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

"Be angry, and do not sin." Do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

A foolish son brings grief to his father, and bitterness to her who bore him.

Behold, for peace I had great anguish, but you have in love for my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption; for you have cast all my sins behind your back.

David was greatly distressed; for the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David strengthened himself in the LORD his God.

"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."