Prison

Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.

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

For the Lord heareth the poor, and despiseth not his prisoners.

And they put him in ward, that the mind of the Lord might be shewed them.

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life.

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

Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. — read the full passage →

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;

The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

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

In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust; let me never be ashamed: deliver me in thy righteousness. — read the full passage →

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

Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;

Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus. — read the full passage →

I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison, and to death.

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

And I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass. — read the full passage →

To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;

Aristarchus my fellowprisoner saluteth you, and Marcus, sister’s son to Barnabas, (touching whom ye received commandments: if he come unto you, receive him;)

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. — read the full passage →

Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. — read the full passage →

And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.

(Who for a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.)

And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

Which thing I also did in Jerusalem: and many of the saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them.

And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison.

A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The Lord looseth the prisoners:

And say, Thus saith 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.

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: — read the full passage →

And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it. — read the full passage →

And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.

But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries. — read the full passage →

The Lord give mercy unto the house of Onesiphorus; for he oft refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain: — read the full passage →

As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal.

Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. — read the full passage →

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. — read the full passage →

But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. — read the full passage →

Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. — read the full passage →

Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek: — read the full passage →

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. — read the full passage →

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. — read the full passage →

For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her.

Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: there is no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit. — read the full passage →

Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. — read the full passage →

I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. — read the full passage →

The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar. — read the full passage →

And 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.

The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly. — read the full passage →

Chasten thy son while there is hope, and let not thy soul spare for his crying. — read the full passage →

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place. — read the full passage →

God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked. — read the full passage →

Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

And the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea: for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and brought no present to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Assyria shut him up, and bound him in prison.

Then spake Solomon, The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness. — read the full passage →

Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed. — read the full passage →

But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.

There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. — read the full passage →

If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord. — read the full passage →

And, behold, I am with thee, and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest, and will bring thee again into this land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished: — read the full passage →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; — read the full passage →

Rejoice evermore.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Paul and Timotheus, the servants of Jesus Christ, to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi, with the bishops and deacons: — read the full passage →

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,

Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. — read the full passage →

The Lord hath chastened me sore: but he hath not given me over unto death. — read the full passage →

That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of life; — read the full passage →

I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. — read the full passage →

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

And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah. — read the full passage →

Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. — read the full passage →

At that time Merodach–baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had been sick, and was recovered. — read the full passage →

Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them. — read the full passage →

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. — read the full passage →

For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor. — read the full passage →

As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. — read the full passage →

The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke. — read the full passage →

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. — read the full passage →

In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it. — read the full passage →