Cross references
Acts 8:23
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”
Acts 8:23 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Proverbs 5:22 (5 votes) and Isaiah 58:6 (5 votes). 21 other verses point back to it. It links with 17 other books, from Deuteronomy 29 to 2 Peter 2.
Which verses does Acts 8:23 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Proverbs 5:225 votes
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
- Isaiah 58:65 votes
Isn’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?
- John 8:344 votes
Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
- Hebrews 12:154 votes
See 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.
- Isaiah 28:223 votes
So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
- Titus 3:33 votes
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
- Deuteronomy 29:18–202 votes
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit, because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry. …
- Deuteronomy 32:32–332 votes
But their vine is from the vine of Sodom and from the fields of Gomorrah. Their grapes are poisonous; their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
- Psalm 116:162 votes
Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.
- Jeremiah 4:182 votes
“Your ways and deeds have brought this upon you. This is your punishment; how bitter it is, because it pierces to the heart!”
- Jeremiah 9:152 votes
- Lamentations 3:52 votes
- Lamentations 3:192 votes
- Romans 6:17–222 votes
- 2 Peter 2:42 votes
- 2 Peter 2:192 votes
- Job 20:141 vote
Which verses point to Acts 8:23?
The 10 strongest of 21.