40 Bible Verses about jail

Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.

I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.'

And Joseph's master took him and put him into the prison, the place where the king's prisoners were confined, and he was there in prison.

for which I am suffering, bound with chains as a criminal. But the word of God is not bound!

Come to terms quickly with your accuser while you are going with him to court, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the guard, and you be put in prison.

But before all this they will lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, and you will be brought before kings and governors for my name's sake.

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

So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

He released the man who had been thrown into prison for insurrection and murder, for whom they asked, but he delivered Jesus over to their will.

When the jailer woke and saw that the prison doors were open, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.

As you go with your accuser before the magistrate, make an effort to settle with him on the way, lest he drag you to the judge, and the judge hand you over to the officer, and the officer put you in prison.

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

Bring me out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name! The righteous will surround me, for you will deal bountifully with me.

For he went from prison to the throne, though in his own kingdom he had been born poor.

Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples

and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone's bonds were unfastened.

And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.

Now when Herod was about to bring him out, on that very night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and sentries before the door were guarding the prison.

"We found the prison securely locked and the guards standing at the doors, but when we opened them we found no one inside."

But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out."

they arrested the apostles and put them in the public prison.

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and for ten days you will have tribulation. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city that imprisonment and afflictions await me.

I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands.

to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.

You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I shall see you if he comes soon.

And he put them all together in custody for three days.

And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

And the keeper of the prison put Joseph in charge of all the prisoners who were in the prison. Whatever was done there, he was the one who did it.

And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison

added this to them all, that he locked up John in prison.

But this is a people plundered and looted; they are all of them trapped in holes and hidden in prisons; they have become plunder with none to rescue, spoil with none to say, "Restore!"

But Saul was ravaging the church, and entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and committed them to prison.

For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,

Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house.

Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.

(for John had not yet been put in prison).

But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, so they returned and reported,