'Imprisonment' in the Bible
Whoever will not observe the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed upon him strictly, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods or for imprisonment.”
and I found him to be accused over questions about their Law, but under no accusation deserving death or imprisonment.
and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, “This man is not doing anything worthy of death or imprisonment.”
For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me.
so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard and to everyone else,
and that most of the brethren, trusting in the Lord because of my imprisonment, have far more courage to speak the word of God without fear.
the former proclaim Christ out of selfish ambition rather than from pure motives, thinking to cause me distress in my imprisonment.
I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my imprisonment. Grace be with you.
for which I suffer hardship even to imprisonment as a criminal; but the word of God is not imprisoned.
I appeal to you for my child Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my imprisonment,
whom I wished to keep with me, so that on your behalf he might minister to me in my imprisonment for the gospel;
and others experienced mockings and scourgings, yes, also chains and imprisonment.