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Want to know what the Bible says about Prison? Here are 55 Bible verses about Prison from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Luke 22:33 NIV
But he replied, “Lord, I am ready to go with you to prison and to death.”
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Ecclesiastes 10:4 NIV
If a ruler’s anger rises against you,
    do not leave your post;
    calmness can lay great offenses to rest.
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Colossians 4:10 NIV
My fellow prisoner Aristarchus sends you his greetings, as does Mark, the cousin of Barnabas. (You have received instructions about him; if he comes to you, welcome him.)
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1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 NIV
16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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Acts 8:3 NIV
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
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Isaiah 42:5-8 NIV
5 This is what God the Lord says—
the Creator of the heavens, who stretches them out,
    who spreads out the earth with all that springs from it,
    who gives breath to its people,
    and life to those who walk on it:
6 “I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness;
    I will take hold of your hand.
I will keep you and will make you
    to be a covenant for the people
    and a light for the Gentiles,
7 to open eyes that are blind,
    to free captives from prison
    and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness.
8 “I am the Lord; that is my name!
    I will not yield my glory to another
    or my praise to idols.
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James 2:5 NIV
Listen, my dear brothers and sisters: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?
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1 Peter 3:19 NIV
After being made alive, he went and made proclamation to the imprisoned spirits
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Hebrews 1:14 NIV
Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation?
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Matthew 14:10 NIV
and had John beheaded in the prison.
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