31 Bible Verses about jail
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Remember the prisoners, as if you were their fellow-prisoners, and the oppressed, not forgetting that you also are still in the body.
When I was naked, you clothed me; when I fell ill, you visited me; and when I was in prison, you came to me.'
in the service of which I am suffering hardships, even to being put in fetters as a criminal. But the Message of God is not fettered;
Be ready to make friends with your opponent, even when you meet him on your way to the court; for fear that he should hand you over to the judge, and the judge to his officer, and you should be thrown into prison.
Before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you, and they will betray you to Synagogues and put you in prison, when you will be brought before kings and governors for the sake of my Name.
So Peter was kept in prison, but meanwhile the prayers of the Church were being earnestly offered to God on his behalf.
About midnight, while Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and while the prisoners were listening to them,
He released the man who had been put in prison for riot and murder, as they demanded, and gave Jesus up to be dealt with as they pleased.
Roused from his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, the Governor drew his sword intending to kill himself, in the belief that the prisoners had escaped.
When, for instance, you are going with your opponent before a magistrate, on your way to the court do your best to be quit of him; for fear that he should drag you before the judge, when the judge will hand you over to the bailiff of the court, and the bailiff throw you into prison.
But the other would not, but went and put him in prison till he should pay his debt.
Now John had heard in prison what the Christ was doing, and he sent a message by his disciples,
Suddenly there was an earthquake of such violence that the Jail was shaken to its foundations; all the doors flew open, and all the prisoners' chains were loosened.
Just when Herod was intending to bring him before the people, on that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, chained to them both, while there were sentries in front of the door, guarding the prison.
While they had found the goal barred securely and the guards posted at the doors, yet, on opening them, they had not found any one inside.
But Paul's answer to them was: "They have flogged us in public without trial, though we are Roman citizens, and they have put us in prison, and now they are for sending us out secretly! No, indeed! Let them come and take us out themselves."
Do not be afraid of what you are about to suffer. The Devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tempted, and may undergo persecution for ten days. Be faithful even to death, and I will give you the Crown of Life.
Except that in town after town the Holy Spirit plainly declares to me that imprisonment and troubles await me.
When I was a stranger, you did not take me to your homes; when I was naked, you did not clothe me; and, when I was ill and in prison, you did not visit me.'
Suddenly an angel of the Lord stood by him, and a light shone in the cell. The angel struck Peter on the side, and roused him with the words: "Get up quickly."
You will be glad to hear that our Brother, Timothy, has been set free. If he comes here soon, we will visit you together.
After seizing Peter, Herod put him in prison, and entrusted him to the keeping of four Guards of four soldiers each, intending, after the Passover, to bring him up before the people.
But Saul began to devastate the Church; he entered house after house, dragged out men and women alike, and threw them into prison.
For, when I was hungry, you gave me no food; when I was thirsty, you gave me no drink;
When Jesus heard that John had been committed to prison, he retired to Galilee.
But, when the officers got there, they did not find them in the prison; so they returned and reported that,
