40 Bible Verses about jail

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were their fellow prisoner, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body [and subject to physical suffering].

I was naked, and you clothed Me; I was sick, and you visited Me [with help and ministering care]; I was in prison, and you came to Me [ignoring personal danger].’

So Joseph’s master took him and put him in the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were confined; so he was there in the prison.

for that [gospel] I am suffering even to [the point of] wearing chains like a criminal; but the word of God is not chained or imprisoned!

Come to terms quickly [at the earliest opportunity] with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way [to court], so that your opponent does not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you are thrown into prison.

“But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, turning you over to the synagogues and prisons, and bringing you before kings and governors for My name’s sake.

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors, and leading them out, he said,

So Peter was kept in prison, but fervent and persistent prayer for him was being made to God by the church.

But about midnight when Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them;

And he released the man they were asking for who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, but he handed over Jesus to their will.

When the jailer, shaken out of sleep, saw the prison doors open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped.

For while you are going with your opponent [at law] to appear before a magistrate, on the way make an effort to settle, so that he does not drag you before the judge, and the judge does not [rule against you and] turn you over to the officer, and the officer does not throw you into prison.

But he was unwilling and he went and had him thrown in prison until he paid back the debt.

“Bring my soul out of prison (adversity),
So that I may give thanks and praise Your name;
The righteous will surround me [in triumph],
For You will look after me.”

for the poor youth has [used his wisdom and] come out of prison to become king, even though he was born poor in his kingdom.

Now when John [the Baptist] in prison heard about the activities of Christ, he sent word by his disciples

suddenly there was a great earthquake, so [powerful] that the very foundations of the prison were shaken and at once all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were unfastened.

The princes were enraged with Jeremiah and beat him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe—for they had made that the prison.

The very night before Herod was to bring him forward, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries were in front of the door guarding the prison.

“We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened [the doors], we found no one inside.”

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us in public without a trial, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison; and now they are sending us out secretly? No! Let them come here themselves and bring us out!”

They arrested the apostles and put them in a public jail.

Fear nothing that you are about to suffer. Be aware that the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested [in your faith], and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful to the point of death [if you must die for your faith], and I will give you the crown [consisting] of life.

except that the Holy Spirit solemnly [and emphatically] affirms to me in city after city that imprisonment and suffering await me.

I was a stranger, and you did not invite Me in; naked, and you did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and you did not visit Me [with help and ministering care].’

Suddenly, an angel of the Lord appeared [beside him] and a light shone in the cell. The angel struck Peter’s side and awakened him, saying, “Get up quickly!” And the chains fell off his hands.

To open the eyes of the blind,
To bring out prisoners from the dungeon
And those who sit in darkness from the prison.

Notice that our brother Timothy has been released [from prison]. If he comes soon, I will see you [along with him].

Then Joseph put them all in prison for three days.

When he had seized Peter, he put him in prison, turning him over to four squads of soldiers of four each to guard him [in rotation throughout the night], planning after the Passover to bring him out before the people [for execution].

The warden committed to Joseph’s care (management) all the prisoners who were in the prison; so that whatever was done there, he was in charge of it.

And when the thousand years are completed, Satan will be released from his prison (the abyss),

he also added this to them all: he locked up John in prison.

But this is a people despoiled and plundered;
All of them are trapped in holes,
Or are hidden away in prisons.
They have become a prey with no one to rescue them,
And a spoil, with no one to say, “Give them back!”

But Saul began ravaging the church [and assaulting believers]; entering house after house and dragging off men and women, putting them in prison.

for I was hungry, and you gave Me nothing to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave Me nothing to drink;

Only think of me when it goes well with you, and please show me kindness by mentioning me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house.

Now when Jesus heard that John [the Baptist] had been arrested and put in prison, He left for Galilee.

for John had not yet been thrown into prison.

But when the officers arrived, they did not find them in the prison; and they came back and reported,