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Bible Verses About Prison

16 verses · 4 aspects

Key Bible Verses

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

  2. Send one of you, and let him fetch your brother, and ye shall be bound, that your words may be proved, whether there be truth in you: or else by the life of Pharaoh surely ye are spies.

  3. And he put them all together into ward three days.

  4. And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

  5. if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses:

  6. And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of Jehovah.

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

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

  9. Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the guard, saying,

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

  11. one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.

  12. And they laid hands on them, and put them in ward unto the morrow: for it was now eventide.

  13. and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public ward.

  14. And when he had taken him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to guard him; intending after the Passover to bring him forth to the people.

  15. Peter therefore was kept in the prison: but prayer was made earnestly of the church unto God for him.

  16. who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.