For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity."
Cross References
Isaiah 58:6Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and tear off every yoke?
Ephesians 4:31Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, outcry and slander, along with every form of malice.
Treasury of Scripture
For I perceive that you are in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
the gall.
Deuteronomy 29:18-20
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; …
Deuteronomy 32:32,33
For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter: …
Job 20:14
Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him.
the bond.
Psalm 116:16
O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.
Proverbs 5:22
His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
Isaiah 28:22
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
