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Want to know what the Bible says about Prisoners? Here are 195 Bible verses about Prisoners 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 23:19 NIV
(Barabbas had been thrown into prison for an insurrection in the city, and for murder.)
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John 3:16-17 NIV
16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
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2 Timothy 2:9 NIV
for which I am suffering even to the point of being chained like a criminal. But God’s word is not chained.
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2 Timothy 4:16 NIV
At my first defense, no one came to my support, but everyone deserted me. May it not be held against them.
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Jeremiah 33:1 NIV
While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the Lord came to him a second time:
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Isaiah 40:28-31 NIV
28 Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
    the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
    and his understanding no one can fathom.
29 He gives strength to the weary
    and increases the power of the weak.
30 Even youths grow tired and weary,
    and young men stumble and fall;
31 but those who hope in the Lord
    will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
    they will run and not grow weary,
    they will walk and not be faint.
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Genesis 40:23 NIV
The chief cupbearer, however, did not remember Joseph; he forgot him.
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Exodus 23:7 NIV
Have nothing to do with a false charge and do not put an innocent or honest person to death, for I will not acquit the guilty.
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Acts 12:11 NIV
Then Peter came to himself and said, “Now I know without a doubt that the Lord has sent his angel and rescued me from Herod’s clutches and from everything the Jewish people were hoping would happen.”
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Matthew 14:4 NIV
for John had been saying to him: “It is not lawful for you to have her.”
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