Acts 8:23
For I perceive you to be in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
In Context
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:18so that there would not be among you man or woman, family or tribe, whose heart has been turned away this day from the Lord our God, so as to go and serve the gods of those nations. For then there would be among you a root springing forth gall and bitterness.
Job 20:14His bread in his belly will be turned into the venom of snakes within him.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities take hold of the impious, and he is bound by the cords of his own sins.
Isaiah 58:6Is not this, instead, the kind of fast that I have chosen? Release the constraints of impiety; relieve the burdens that oppress; freely forgive those who are broken; and break apart every burden.
Jeremiah 9:15For this reason, thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Behold, I will feed this people with absinthe, and I will give them the water of gall to drink.
Lamentations 3:19ZAIN. Remember my poverty and my transgression, the wormwood and the gall.
Matthew Henry on Acts 8:15-26
The Account of Simon Magus. 14 Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John: 15 Who, when they were come down, prayed for them, that they might receive the Holy Ghost: 16 (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) 17 Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost. 18 And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles' hands the Holy Ghost was… Read the whole commentary →