31 Bible Verses about jail

Remember the prisoners, as bound with them; those ill-treated, as being yourselves also in the body.

naked, and ye clothed Me; I was sick, and ye looked after Me; I was in prison, and ye came to Me.'

wherein I am suffering hardship, even to bonds, as a malefactor; but the Word of God has not become bound.

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

And, before all these things, they will lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up into the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for My name's sake.

But an angel of the Lord, by night, opened the prison doors; and, having led them out, said,

Peter, therefore, was kept in the prison; but prayer was being earnestly made by the assembly to God in his behalf.

And about midnight Paul and Silas, while engaged in prayer, were singing praise to God; and the prisoners were listening to them.

and he released him who, because of insurrection and murder, had been cast into prison, for whom they were asking; but he delivered up Jesus to their will.

And the jailer, being aroused from sleep, and seeing the doors of the prison open, drawing a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled.

For, as you are going with your adversary before the ruler, on the way give diligence to be released from him; lest he draw you to the judge, and the judge shall deliver you to the exactor, and the exactor shall cast you into prison.

And he would not; but, going away, he cast him into prison, till he should pay what was due.

And John, having heard, in the prison, of the works of the Christ, sending 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 the bonds of all were loosed.

And, when Herod was about to bring him forth, in that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains; and guards before the door were keeping the prison.

saying, "The prison-house we found shut in all safety, and the prison-keepers standing at the doors; but, having opened, we found no one within."

But Paul said to them "Having beaten us in public, uncondemned, being Romans, they cast us into prison; and now are they casting us out secretly? Nay, verily; but, coming themselves, let them lead us out."

and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in a public prison.

Fear not the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the Devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

except that the Holy Spirit testifieth to me in every city, saying that bonds and tribulations await me.

I was a stranger, and ye took Me not in; naked, and ye did not clothe Me; sick, and in prison, and ye did not look after Me.'

And, behold, an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shined in the cell; and, smiting the side of Peter, he raised him up, saying, "Rise up quickly!" And his chains fell off from his hands.

Know ye that our brother Timothy has been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

And, having seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending, after the passover, to bring him up to the people.

And, when the thousand years are finished, Satan will be loosed out of his prison,

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

But Saul was laying waste the assembly, entering house after house; and, dragging men and women, was committing them to prison.

for I hungered, and ye did not give Me to eat; I thirsted, and ye gave Me no drink;

And, hearing that John was delivered up, He withdrew into Galilee.

For John had not yet been cast into prison.

But the officers, having come, did not find them in the prison, and, returning, they told,