Acts 8:23
for in the gall of bitterness, and bond of unrighteousness, I perceive you being.”
Literal Standard 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 29:18lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning from our God YHWH today, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root bearing the fruit of gall and wormwood;
Job 20:14his food is turned in his bowels, the bitterness of cobras [is] in his heart.
Proverbs 5:22His own iniquities capture the wicked, || And he is holden with the ropes of his sin.
Isaiah 58:6Is this not the fast that I chose—To loose the bands of wickedness, || To shake off the burdens of the yoke, || And to send out the oppressed free, || And draw off every yoke?
Jeremiah 9:15Therefore, thus said YHWH of Hosts, God of Israel: “Behold, I am causing them—this people—to eat wormwood, || And I have caused them to drink water of gall,
Lamentations 3:19Remember my affliction and my mourning, || Wormwood and 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 →