58 Bible Verses about Prisons
Want to know what the Bible says about Prisons? Here are 58 Bible verses about Prisons 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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Genesis 39:20 NIV
Joseph’s master took him and put him in prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were confined.
But while Joseph was there in the prison,
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Jeremiah 37:21 NIV
King Zedekiah then gave orders for Jeremiah to be placed in the courtyard of the guard and given a loaf of bread from the street of the bakers each day until all the bread in the city was gone. So Jeremiah remained in the courtyard of the guard.
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Jeremiah 38:6 NIV
So they took Jeremiah and put him into the cistern of Malkijah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah by ropes into the cistern; it had no water in it, only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.
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Zechariah 9:11 NIV
As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you,
I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
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Genesis 39:21 NIV
the Lord was with him; he showed him kindness and granted him favor in the eyes of the prison warden.
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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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Acts 4:3 NIV
They seized Peter and John and, because it was evening, they put them in jail until the next day.
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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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Genesis 42:19 NIV
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.
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Leviticus 24:12 NIV
They put him in custody until the will of the Lord should be made clear to them.
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Acts 12:4-5 NIV
4 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.
5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
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Judges 16:21 NIV
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
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2 Kings 17:4 NIV
But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So king of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison.
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Jeremiah 52:11 NIV
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.
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Matthew 5:26 NIV
Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
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Matthew 18:30 NIV
“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.
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1 Kings 22:27 NIV
and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.’”
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2 Chronicles 16:10 NIV
Asa was angry with the seer because of this; he was so enraged that he put him in prison. At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people.
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Mark 6:17 NIV
For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married.
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