Jail

Remember those who are in bonds, as bound with them; and those who are ill-treated, since you are also in the body.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house, and dragged both men and women off to prison.

For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.

to open the blind eyes, to bring the prisoners out of the dungeon, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison.

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 custody. — read the full passage →

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’

in which he also went and preached to the spirits in prison,

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, — read the full passage →

Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,

Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him. — read the full passage →

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God. — read the full passage →

and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody. — read the full passage →

one who was thrown into prison for a certain revolt in the city, and for murder.

Now I desire to have you know, brothers, that the things which happened to me have turned out rather to the progress of the Good News; — read the full passage →

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.” — read the full passage →

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. — read the full passage →

added this also to them all, that he shut up John in prison.

I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.’ — read the full passage →

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but is patient with us, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron, — read the full passage →

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I am more so; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths often.

who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. Yahweh frees the prisoners.

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely, — read the full passage →

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers, deluding your own selves.

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy, — read the full passage →

Repent therefore of this, your wickedness, and ask God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

and laid hands on the apostles, and put them in public custody. — read the full passage →

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly, without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you.

When did we see you sick, or in prison, and come to you?’ — read the full passage →

The same night when Herod was about to bring him out, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains. Guards in front of the door kept the prison. — read the full passage →

Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out, and said,

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Now why do you wait? Arise, be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.’

I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.

But watch yourselves, for they will deliver you up to councils. You will be beaten in synagogues. You will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them. — read the full passage →

They shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.

He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”

But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them. — read the full passage →

Now when Jesus heard that John was delivered up, he withdrew into Galilee.

Now about that time, King Herod stretched out his hands to oppress some of the assembly. — read the full passage →

Say, ‘Thus says the king, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.”’”

yet for love’s sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison. — read the full passage →

“Behold, my servant, whom I uphold; my chosen, in whom my soul delights— I have put my Spirit on him. He will bring justice to the nations. — read the full passage →

“Keep far from a false charge, and don’t kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.

and being in readiness to avenge all disobedience, when your obedience will be made full.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, — read the full passage →

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

He came to Derbe and Lystra: and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timothy, the son of a Jewess who believed; but his father was a Greek. — read the full passage →

Again I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four chariots came out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. — read the full passage →

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 until the day of his death.

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchijah the king’s son, that was in the court of the guard: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. In the dungeon there was no water, but mire; and Jeremiah sank in the mire.

The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison. — read the full passage →

Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

Behold, Yahweh’s hand is not shortened, that it can’t save; neither his ear heavy, that it can’t hear: — read the full passage →

If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

I understand more than the aged, because I have kept your precepts. — read the full passage →

Then Solomon said, “Yahweh has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.

“‘But the soul who does anything with a high hand, whether he is native-born or a foreigner, the same blasphemes Yahweh. That soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there. — read the full passage →

“Behold, I come like a thief. Blessed is he who watches, and keeps his clothes, so that he doesn’t walk naked, and they see his shame.”

After the uproar had ceased, Paul sent for the disciples, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia. — read the full passage →

May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain,

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ; — read the full passage →

Behold, I tell you a mystery. We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed,

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom one hundred twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom; — read the full passage →

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace for gold; but man is refined by his praise. — read the full passage →

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

For Herod himself had sent out and arrested John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, for he had married her. — read the full passage →

And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison, — read the full passage →

“I know your works, oppression, and your poverty (but you are rich), and the blasphemy of those who say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan. — read the full passage →

and the Living one. I was dead, and behold, I am alive forever more. Amen. I have the keys of Death and of Hades.

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time; — read the full passage →

Therefore, since Christ suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves also with the same mind; for he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin; — read the full passage →

Now who is he who will harm you, if you become imitators of that which is good? — read the full passage →

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him? — read the full passage →

For you both had compassion on me in my chains, and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food. — read the full passage →

But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira, his wife, sold a possession, — read the full passage →

“Brothers, it was necessary that this Scripture should be fulfilled, which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth of David concerning Judas, who was guide to those who took Jesus.