16 Bible Verses about Imprisonments
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Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.
In floggings, in imprisonments, in riots, in toils, in sleepless nights, in fastings;
Be ready to make friends with your opponent, even when you meet him on your way to the court; for fear that he should hand you over to the judge, and the judge to his officer, and you should be thrown into prison. I tell you, you will not come out until you have paid the last penny.
When, for instance, you are going with your opponent before a magistrate, on your way to the court do your best to be quit of him; for fear that he should drag you before the judge, when the judge will hand you over to the bailiff of the court, and the bailiff throw you into prison.
Except that in town after town the Holy Spirit plainly declares to me that imprisonment and troubles await me.
Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The Devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tempted, and may undergo persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to death, and I will give you the Crown of Life.
But the other would not, but went and put him in prison till he should pay his debt.
A man called Barabbas was in prison, with the rioters who had committed murder during a riot.
(Barabbas was a man who had been put in prison for a riot that had broken out in the city and for murder.)
Before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you, and they will betray you to Synagogues and put you in prison, when you will be brought before kings and governors for the sake of my Name.
After seizing Peter, Herod put him in prison, and entrusted him to the keeping of four Guards of four soldiers each, intending, after the Passover, to bring him up before the people.
On receiving so strict an order, the Governor put them into the inner cell, and secured their feet in the stocks.
Be ready to make friends with your opponent, even when you meet him on your way to the court; for fear that he should hand you over to the judge, and the judge to his officer, and you should be thrown into prison.
