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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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Ezra 7:26 NIV
Whoever does not obey the law of your God and the law of the king must surely be punished by death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.
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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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Jeremiah 32:2 NIV
The army of the king of Babylon was then besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was confined in the courtyard of the guard in the royal palace of Judah.
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Jeremiah 37:15 NIV
They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison.
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Genesis 40:3 NIV
and put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the same prison where Joseph was confined.
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Acts 28:16 NIV
When we got to Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with a soldier to guard him.
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Acts 28:30 NIV
For two whole years Paul stayed there in his own rented house and welcomed all who came to see him.
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2 Timothy 1:16-18 NIV
16 May the Lord show mercy to the household of Onesiphorus, because he often refreshed me and was not ashamed of my chains. 17 On the contrary, when he was in Rome, he searched hard for me until he found me. 18 May the Lord grant that he will find mercy from the Lord on that day! You know very well in how many ways he helped me in Ephesus.
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Matthew 5:25 NIV
“Settle matters quickly with your adversary who is taking you to court. Do it while you are still together on the way, or your adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.
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Jeremiah 39:6 NIV
There at Riblah the king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes and also killed all the nobles of Judah.
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