Acts 8:23
Turn away from your evil ways, because I perceive that you (sg) are extremely envious of us, and you are a slave of your continual desire to do evil! God will certainly punish you severely!”
Translation for Translators
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 God that he will not do to me what you just said!”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:18So be sure that no man or woman or family or tribe that is here today turns away from Yahweh our God, to worship/serve the gods of those nations. Doing that would be like a root of a plant that would grow among you and bear poisonous and bitter fruit [MET].
Job 20:14but some day the evil things that they enjoyed doing will become like food that they swallow and which becomes as bitter as snake venom.
Proverbs 5:22Evil men’s sinful desires hold them fast; their sins are like ropes that bind them.
Isaiah 58:6No, that is not the kind of fasting that I desire. What I really want [RHQ] is for you to free those who have been unjustly put in prison [DOU], and to encourage those who are ◄treated cruelly/oppressed►; I want you to free those who have been oppressed in any way.
Jeremiah 9:15So now listen to what I, the Commander of the armies of angels, the God of the Israelis, say: What I will do will be like [MET] giving these people bitter things to eat and poison to drink:
Lamentations 3:19When I think about my suffering and my wandering away from home, it is like drinking a very bitter [DOU] liquid.
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 →