Prison

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

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

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.

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;

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

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

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 →

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,

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.

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 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.

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.

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 →

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 →