Acts 8:23
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23 for I can see that you are full of bitter jealousy and are held captive by sin.”
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Isaiah 58:6
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6 “No, this is the kind of fasting I want:
Free those who are wrongly imprisoned;
lighten the burden of those who work for you.
Let the oppressed go free,
and remove the chains that bind people.
Proverbs 5:22
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22 An evil man is held captive by his own sins;
they are ropes that catch and hold him.
Hebrews 12:15
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15 Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many.
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John 8:34
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34 Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin.
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2 Peter 2:19
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19 They promise freedom, but they themselves are slaves of sin and corruption. For you are a slave to whatever controls you.
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2 Peter 2:4
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4 For God did not spare even the angels who sinned. He threw them into hell,[a] in gloomy pits of darkness,[b] where they are being held until the day of judgment.
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Titus 3:3
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3 Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled and became slaves to many lusts and pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy, and we hated each other.
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Romans 6:17-22
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17 Thank God! Once you were slaves of sin, but now you wholeheartedly obey this teaching we have given you. 18 Now you are free from your slavery to sin, and you have become slaves to righteous living.
19 Because of the weakness of your human nature, I am using the illustration of slavery to help you understand all this. Previously, you let yourselves be slaves to impurity and lawlessness, which led ever deeper into sin. Now you must give yourselves to be slaves to righteous living so that you will become holy.
20 When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right. 21 And what was the result? You are now ashamed of the things you used to do, things that end in eternal doom. 22 But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.
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Lamentations 3:19
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19 The thought of my suffering and homelessness
is bitter beyond words.[a]
Footnotes
- 3:19 Or is wormwood and gall.
Lamentations 3:5
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5 He has besieged and surrounded me
with anguish and distress.
Jeremiah 9:15
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15 So now, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: Look! I will feed them with bitterness and give them poison to drink.
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Jeremiah 4:18
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18 “Your own actions have brought this upon you.
This punishment is bitter, piercing you to the heart!”
Isaiah 28:22
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22 For the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
has plainly said that he is determined to crush the whole land.
So scoff no more,
or your punishment will be even greater.
Psalm 116:16
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16 O Lord, I am your servant;
yes, I am your servant, born into your household;
you have freed me from my chains.
Job 20:14
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14 But suddenly the food in their bellies turns sour,
a poisonous venom in their stomach.
Deuteronomy 32:32-33
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32 Their vine grows from the vine of Sodom,
from the vineyards of Gomorrah.
Their grapes are poison,
and their clusters are bitter.
33 Their wine is the venom of serpents,
the deadly poison of cobras.
Deuteronomy 29:18-20
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18 I am making this covenant with you so that no one among you—no man, woman, clan, or tribe—will turn away from the Lord our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you bears bitter and poisonous fruit.
19 “Those who hear the warnings of this curse should not congratulate themselves, thinking, ‘I am safe, even though I am following the desires of my own stubborn heart.’ This would lead to utter ruin! 20 The Lord will never pardon such people. Instead his anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the Lord will erase their names from under heaven.
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