31 Bible Verses about jail

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2 Timothy 2:9

for which I am suffering even to the point of wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.

Matthew 5:25

Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are on the way with him to court, lest your adversary deliver you to the judge, the judge hand you over to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

Luke 21:12

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.

Luke 23:25

And as they led him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene, who was coming in from the country, and laid on him the cross, to carry it behind Jesus.

Acts 16:27

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.

Luke 12:58

As you go with your adversary to 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 throw you into prison.

Matthew 18:30

But he refused, and went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.

Matthew 11:2

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

Acts 16:26

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

Acts 12:6

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

Acts 5:23

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

Acts 16:37

But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, without trial, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now cast us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out."

Matthew 25:43

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

Acts 12:7

And behold, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared, and a light shone in the cell; and he struck Peter's side and woke him up, saying, "Get up quickly." And the chains fell off his hands.

Hebrews 13:23

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

Acts 12:4

When he had seized him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

Luke 3:20

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

Acts 8:3

But Saul began ravaging the church, and, entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and put them in prison.

Matthew 25:42

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

Matthew 4:12

Now when Jesus heard that John had been put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee.

John 3:24

For John had not yet been put in prison.

Acts 5:22

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

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