Acts 8:23
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
In Context
24Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me, so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
Job 20:14yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
Proverbs 5:22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
Isaiah 58:6Isn’t this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and wandering, 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 →