TSK · Acts 8:23

lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;

yet his food in his bowels is turned. It is cobra venom within him.

The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

But thanks be to God, that, whereas you were bondservants of sin, you became obedient from the heart to that form of teaching whereunto you were delivered.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.