31 Bible Verses about jail
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Remember the prisoners, as though in prison with them, and those who are ill-treated, since you yourselves are also 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.'
for which I am suffering even to the point of wearing chains like a criminal. But the word of God is not chained.
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.
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 doors of the prison, and brought them out, and said,
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them,
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.
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 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.
But he refused, and went and threw him into prison till he should pay the debt.
Now when John heard in prison about the works of Christ, he sent word by his disciples
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.
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.
"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, 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."
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 even until death, and I will give you the crown of life.
except that the Holy Spirit solemnly testifies to me in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions await me.
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.'
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.
You should know that our brother Timothy has been released, with whom I will see you if he comes soon.
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.
But Saul began ravaging the church, and, entering house after house, he dragged off men and women and put them in 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 put in prison, he withdrew to Galilee.
But when the officers came, they did not find them in the prison, and they returned and reported back,