Bible Verses About Prison

And Joseph's master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king's prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison.

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Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be kept in prison, that your words may be proved, whether there be any truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies. And he put them all together into ward three days. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God: If ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in the house of your prison: go ye, carry corn for the famine of your houses:

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And they put him in ward, that the mind of the LORD might be shewed them.

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And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

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And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.

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Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

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(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)

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And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

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And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people.

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Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him.

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And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

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Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

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Moreover the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,

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Then Zedekiah the king commanded that they should commit Jeremiah into the court of the prison, and that they should give him daily a piece of bread out of the bakers' street, until all the bread in the city were spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the prison.

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Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

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As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

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And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

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And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

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And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

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Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

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For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.

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For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah's house.

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Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

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And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

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And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

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And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison.

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The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house of the LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.

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And changed his prison garments: and he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life.

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Now when John had heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples,

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Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

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And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

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And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

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And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

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When Jeremiah was entered into the dungeon, and into the cabins, and Jeremiah had remained there many days;

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But the LORD was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

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And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph's hand all the prisoners that were in the prison; and whatsoever they did there, he was the doer of it.

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