Acts 8:23

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For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin.”

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  • Isa 58:6 : 6 No, this is the kind of fast I want. I want you to remove the sinful chains, to tear away the ropes of the burdensome yoke, to set free the oppressed, and to break every burdensome yoke.
  • Prov 5:22 : 22 The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.
  • John 8:34 : 34 Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.
  • Heb 12:15 : 15 See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God, that no one be like a bitter root springing up and causing trouble, and through it many become defiled.
  • 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God did not spare the angels who sinned, but threw them into hell and locked them up in chains in utter darkness, to be kept until the judgment,
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.
  • Rom 6:17-22 : 17 But thanks be to God that though you were slaves to sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were entrusted to, 18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. 21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.
  • Isa 28:22 : 22 So now, do not mock, or your chains will become heavier! For I have heard a message about decreed destruction, from the Sovereign LORD of Heaven’s Armies, against the entire land.
  • Jer 4:18 : 18 “The way you have lived and the things you have done will bring this on you. This is the punishment you deserve, and it will be painful indeed. The pain will be so bad it will pierce your heart.”
  • Jer 9:15 : 15 So then, listen to what I, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, say.‘I will make these people eat the bitter food of suffering and drink the poison water of judgment.
  • Lam 3:5 : 5 He has besieged and surrounded me with bitter hardship.
  • Lam 3:19 : 19 ז(Zayin) Remember my impoverished and homeless condition, which is a bitter poison.
  • Deut 29:18-20 : 18 Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the LORD our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit. 19 When such a person hears the words of this oath he secretly blesses himself and says,“I will have peace though I continue to walk with a stubborn spirit.” This will destroy the watered ground with the parched. 20 The LORD will be unwilling to forgive him, and his intense anger will rage against that man; all the curses written in this scroll will fall upon him and the LORD will obliterate his name from memory.
  • Deut 32:32-33 : 32 For their vine is from the stock of Sodom, and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes contain venom, their clusters of grapes are bitter. 33 Their wine is snakes’ poison, the deadly venom of cobras.
  • Job 20:14 : 14 his food is turned sour in his stomach; it becomes the venom of serpents within him.
  • Ps 116:16 : 16 Yes, LORD! I am indeed your servant; I am your servant, the son of your female servant. You saved me from death.

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