Prison

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

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

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

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.

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

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

Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.” — 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?

He said to him, “Lord, I am ready to go with you both to prison and to death!”

Now when John heard in the prison the works of Christ, he sent two of his disciples

Aristarchus, my fellow prisoner, greets you, and Mark, the cousin of Barnabas (concerning whom you received commandments, “if he comes to you, receive him”),

confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

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

He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

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

And after the thousand years, Satan will be released from his prison,

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.

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

This I also did in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

He would not, but went and cast him into prison, until he should pay back that which was due.

and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, — read the full passage →

Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries. — 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, — read the full passage →

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

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

These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Aren’t they all serving spirits, sent out to do service for the sake of those who will inherit salvation?

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

But if we hope for that which we don’t see, we wait for it with patience. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. — read the full passage →

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 →

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.” — read the full passage →

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. — read the full passage →

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.

the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment; — read the full passage →

In the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

not by works of righteousness, which we did ourselves, but according to his mercy, he saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

Rejoice always.

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

Paul and Timothy, servants of Jesus Christ; To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and servants: — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

Because, knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

That which was from the beginning, that which we have heard, that which we have seen with our eyes, that which we saw, and our hands touched, concerning the Word of life — read the full passage →

I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy. — read the full passage →

Now when the day of Pentecost had come, they were all with one accord in one place. — read the full passage →