31 Bible Verses about jail

Remember those who are in prison, as if you were fellow prisoners; remember too, those who are being ill-treated, since you too, 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 see me.'

For preaching it I am suffering, and am even put in chains as a malefactor.

"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.

"But before all these things happen, they will apprehend you and persecute you and deliver you to the synagogues and to prisons, and bring you before kings and governors for the sake of my name.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors during the night, and let them out.

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

But at midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,

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

The jailer, roused from sleep, and seeing the doors wide open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, because he thought that the prisoners had escaped.

"For as you go before the magistrate with your opponent do your utmost to get quit of him, lest he drag you before the judge, and the judge delivers you over to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.

"But he would not; on the contrary he went and threw him into prison until he should pay the debt.

But when John heard, in the prison, what the Christ was doing, he sent by some of his disciples to ask him,

suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the very foundations of the prison-house were shaken; and instantly all the doors were opened, and every one's chains fell off.

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

"The prison we found locked fast, with the guards stationed at the doors, but when they were opened we found no one inside."

But Paul said: "They have flogged us publicly, uncondemned, men that are Roman citizens; and have thrown us into prison. Are they now going to get rid of us secretly? No, indeed! Let them come here, themselves and take us out."

and they apprehended the apostles, and threw them into the public prison.

Fear not what you are about to suffer! Behold, the devil is indeed going to put some of you in prison, that you may be tested, and you will have persecution for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

except that in city after city the Holy Spirit is warning me that bonds and afflictions are awaiting me.

"I was a stranger, and you took me not in; naked, and you clothed me not; sick, or in prison, and you visited me not.'

suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. Striking Peter on the side, he woke him saying, "Rise up quickly." At once the chains dropped from his hands.

You know that our brother Timothy has been set free. If he comes soon, I will see him with you.

He had him arrested and thrown in prison, and put under guard of sixteen soldiers. He intended, after the Passover, to bring him forth to the people.

And when the thousand years have been completed, Satan will be loosed out of his prison,

added yet this above them all that he shut up John in prison.

But Saul was laying waste the church. He was wont to enter into every house, and to drag off men and women, and to commit them to prison.

"for I was hungry, and you gave me no food; I was thirsty, and you gave me no drink;

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

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

But the officers who went did not find them in the prison; so they came back and reported,