Bitterness
10 passages
- Acts 8:23
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
Read it in context - Ephesians 4:26
“Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
Read it in context - Romans 3:14
“Their mouths are full of cursing and bitterness.”
Read it in context - Hebrews 12:14–15
14Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord. 15See to it that no one falls short of the grace of God, and that no root of bitterness springs up to cause trouble and defile many.
Read it in context - Job 10:1
“I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Read it in context - Matthew 6:14–15
14For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. 15But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive yours.
Read it in context - Proverbs 14:10
The heart knows its own bitterness, and no stranger shares in its joy.
Read it in context - Proverbs 17:25
A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
Read it in context - Job 7:11
Therefore I will not restrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Read it in context - Job 21:25
Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
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