Acts 8:23 Cross References - Goodspeed

²³ For I see that you are a bitter poison and a bundle of iniquity!"

³⁴ Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

¹⁷ But, thank God! though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient from your hearts to the standard of teaching that you received, ¹⁸ and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness. ¹⁹ I use these familiar human terms because of the limitations of your nature. For just as you before gave up the parts of your bodies in slavery to vice and greater and greater license, you must now give them up in slavery to uprightness, which leads to consecration. ²⁰ For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned. ²¹ What good did you get from doing the things you are now ashamed of? Why, they result in death! ²² But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

³ For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another.

¹⁵ Be careful that no one fails to gain God's favor, or some poisonous root may come up to trouble and contaminate you all—

⁴ For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but plunged them into Tartarus, and committed them to dark dungeons to await their doom,

¹⁹ promising them freedom when they are themselves slaves of destruction; for a man is the slave of whatever overcomes him.