Bible Verses About Bitterness
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for bitterness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 302,092 votes, led by Ephesians 4:31. Each passage links into the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Bitterness
Ephesians 4:3110,785 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Hebrews 12:1510,249 votes
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;
Ephesians 4:31-327,752 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Acts 8:237,436 votes
For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.
Matthew 6:14-156,876 votes
For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you:
Ephesians 4:266,794 votes
Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
Hebrews 12:14-156,444 votes
Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Romans 3:146,094 votes
Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
Colossians 3:85,828 votes
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Proverbs 10:125,618 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Proverbs 15:15,458 votes
A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Mark 11:255,272 votes
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.
Job 10:15,249 votes
My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my complaint upon myself; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Proverbs 14:105,209 votes
The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.
Proverbs 17:254,969 votes
A foolish son is a grief to his father, and bitterness to her that bare him.
James 1:19-204,909 votes
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
Colossians 3:134,405 votes
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Romans 12:24,386 votes
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.
Job 7:114,355 votes
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.
Job 21:254,335 votes
And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
Proverbs 20:224,019 votes
Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the Lord, and he shall save thee.
Ephesians 4:323,958 votes
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.
Isaiah 38:173,832 votes
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.
Ezekiel 3:143,661 votes
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.
1 John 1:93,559 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.