But before all this, men will arrest you and persecute you, and hand you over to synagogues and prisons and have you brought before kings and governors on my account.

Remember those who are in prison as though you were in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated as being yourselves liable to the same trials.

And they obeyed, and about daybreak went into the Temple and began to teach. The high priest and his party came over and called together the council and indeed the whole senate of the Israelites, and sent to the prison to have the apostles brought in.

"We found the prison securely locked up, with the sentries on duty at the doors, but on opening the doors we found no one inside."

But Saul harassed the church. He went into one house after another, and dragging out men and women, put them in prison.

He motioned to them to be quiet, and then related to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. "Tell all this to James and the brothers," he said. Then he left them and went somewhere else.

I persecuted this Way even to the death, and bound both men and women and put them in prison,

But when two whole years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and as he wanted to gratify the Jews, Felix left Paul in prison.

and as they stayed there several days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "who was left in prison by Felix,

That was what I did at Jerusalem when on the authority of the high priests I put many of God's people in prison. When they were put to death, I cast my vote against them,

Be quick and come to terms with your opponent while you are on the way to court with him, or he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.

Remember me to Andronicus and Junias, my fellow-countrymen, who went to prison with me. They are noted men among the missionaries, and they became Christians before I did.

Now when John heard in prison of what the Christ was doing, he sent by his disciples

For Herod had seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife,

And he sent and had John beheaded in the prison.

But he refused and went and had him put in prison until he should pay the debt.

for the sake of which I am an envoy, and in prison. Pray that, when I tell it, I may have the courage to speak as I ought.

And I have a right to feel in this way about you all, because both when I am in prison and when I am defending and vindicating our right to preach the good news, I have you in my heart as all sharing that privilege with me.

Thus it is generally known throughout the Imperial Guard and elsewhere that it is for the sake of Christ that I am in prison,

Pray for me too, that God may give me an opening for the message, and let me tell the secret of Christ on account of which I am kept in prison

This farewell is in my own hand, from Paul. Remember that I am in prison. God bless you.

when I had no clothes, you gave me clothes, when I was sick, you looked after me, when I was in prison, you came to see me.'

When did we see you sick or in prison, and go to see you?'

when I was a stranger, you did not invite me home, when I had no clothes, you did not supply me, when I was sick and in prison, you did not look after me.'

Then they in their turn will answer, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or in need of clothes, or sick, or in prison, and did not wait upon you?'

So you must not be ashamed to testify to our Lord, nor be ashamed of me who am in prison for his sake, but join with me in suffering for the good news, through the power of God.

May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, for he often cheered me and was not ashamed of my being in prison.

I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whose father I have become here in prison.

I would have liked to keep him with me, to wait on me in your place while I am in prison for the good news,

For you showed sympathy with those who were in prison, and you put up with it cheerfully when your property was taken from you, for you knew that you had in yourselves a greater possession that was lasting.

Still others had to endure taunts and blows, and even fetters and prison.

You must know that our brother Timothy has been released from prison. If he comes here soon, we will see you together.

In it Enoch went and preached even to those spirits that were in prison,

For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him and put him in prison, on account of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife, because Herod had married her.

And he went off and beheaded him in the prison and brought back his head on a platter and gave it to the girl, and the girl gave it to her mother.

Do not be afraid of what you are going to suffer. See! The devil is going to put some of you into prison to be tested there, and for ten days to endure persecution. Prove faithful even unto death and I will give you the crown of life.

When the thousand years are over, Satan will be released from his prison,

There was in prison a man called Barabbas, among some revolutionaries who in their outbreak had committed murder.

crowned them all by putting John in prison.

For when you are going before the magistrate with your opponent, do your best on the way to get rid of him, or he may hurry you off to the judge and the judge hand you over to the constable and the constable throw you into prison.

Peter said to him, "Master, I am ready to go to prison and to death with you!"

(He was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had taken place in the city and for murder.)

He released the man they asked for, who had been put in prison for riot and murder, and handed Jesus over to their will.

For John had not yet been put in prison.