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Want to know what the Bible says about Jail? Here are 44 Bible verses about Jail from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Jeremiah 52:11 NIV
Then he put out Zedekiah’s eyes, bound him with bronze shackles and took him to Babylon, where he put him in prison till the day of his death.
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Proverbs 27:21-22 NIV
21 The crucible for silver and the furnace for gold,
    but people are tested by their praise.
22 Though you grind a fool in a mortar,
    grinding them like grain with a pestle,
    you will not remove their folly from them.
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Ecclesiastes 10:4 NIV
If a ruler’s anger rises against you,
    do not leave your post;
    calmness can lay great offenses to rest.
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Acts 8:3 NIV
But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
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Numbers 15:30 NIV
“‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, blasphemes the Lord and must be cut off from the people of Israel.
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Proverbs 28:1 NIV
The wicked flee though no one pursues,
    but the righteous are as bold as a lion.
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Proverbs 21:11 NIV
When a mocker is punished, the simple gain wisdom;
    by paying attention to the wise they get knowledge.
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Colossians 4:18 NIV
I, Paul, write this greeting in my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.
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Revelation 16:15 NIV
“Look, I come like a thief! Blessed is the one who stays awake and remains clothed, so as not to go naked and be shamefully exposed.”
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Proverbs 20:30 NIV
Blows and wounds scrub away evil,
    and beatings purge the inmost being.
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