Bitterness

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: — read the full passage →

For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: — read the full passage →

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: — read the full passage →

Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.

A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.

Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the Lord was strong upon me.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. — read the full passage →

And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.

Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.

If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: — read the full passage →

Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

And she was in bitterness of soul, and prayed unto the Lord, and wept sore.

Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them.

A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.

An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.

The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him.

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; — read the full passage →

But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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;

Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:

For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; — read the full passage →

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called, — read the full passage →

And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me.

Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

Even to day is my complaint bitter: my stroke is heavier than my groaning.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him. — read the full passage →

The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.

But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? till seven times? — read the full passage →

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him. — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,

And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman’s head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit than he that taketh a city.

And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — read the full passage →

Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven:

That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, — read the full passage →

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.

To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the Lord.

And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. — read the full passage →

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint; — read the full passage →

And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: — read the full passage →

Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: — read the full passage →

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! — read the full passage →

Now there was a certain man of Ramathaim–zophim, of mount Ephraim, and his name was Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: — read the full passage →

Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. — read the full passage →