30 Bible Verses about jail
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Remember those bound as bound with them, and those injured as being yourselves also in the body.
naked and you clothed me; I was sick and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.
in which I suffer even to chains as an evil doer; but the word of God is not bound.
Agree with your accuser quickly, while you are with him in the way, lest the accuser deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
But before all these things they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, committing you to synagogues and prisons, to be brought before kings and governors on my account;
But an angel of the Lord opening the prison doors by night led them out and said,
Peter therefore was kept by the guard; but prayer was made incessantly by the church to God for him.
But at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sung praises to God, and the prisoners heard them.
And he released him that was cast into prison for sedition and murder, whom they desired, and delivered up Jesus to their will.
And the jailer awaking from sleep and seeing the doors of the prison opened, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing that the prisoners had escaped.
For when you go with your adversary to a ruler, on the way labor to be released from him, lest he take you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison;
But he would not; but went and cast him into prison till he should pay the debt.
AND John hearing in the prison of the works of Christ, sending by his disciples,
And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and all the doors were immediately opened, and the bands of all were removed.
And when Herod was about to bring him forward, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards kept watch before the door.
saying, The prison found we shut with all safety, and the guards standing before the doors, but opening we found no one within.
But Paul said to him, They have beaten us publicly uncondemned, being Romans, and cast us into prison; and now do they privately cast us out? No, indeed: but let them come themselves and conduct us out.
Fear not what you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that you may be tried, and you shall have affliction ten days. Be faithful till death, and I will give you the crown of life.
except that the Holy Spirit testifies to me in every city, saying, That bonds and afflictions await me.
a stranger, and you took me not in; sick and in prison and you visited me not.
And behold, an angel of the Lord came, and a light shone in the building; and striking Peter on the side he awoke him saying, Arise quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.
Know that brother Timothy has been released, with whom, if he comes soon, I will see you.
And when the thousand years are finished, Satan shall be released from his prison,
But Saul persecuted the church, and going from house to house, seizing men and women, committed them to prison.
For I was hungry and you gave me no food; I was thirsty and you gave me no drink;
But the officers going did not find them in the prison; and returning they reported,