58 Bible Verses about Prisons
Want to know what the Bible says about Prisons? Here are 58 Bible verses about Prisons 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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Leviticus 24:12 NIV
They put him in custody until the will of the Lord should be made clear to them.
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Acts 12:4-5 NIV
4 After arresting him, he put him in prison, handing him over to be guarded by four squads of four soldiers each. Herod intended to bring him out for public trial after the Passover.
5 So Peter was kept in prison, but the church was earnestly praying to God for him.
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Judges 16:21 NIV
Then the Philistines seized him, gouged out his eyes and took him down to Gaza. Binding him with bronze shackles, they set him to grinding grain in the prison.
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2 Kings 17:4 NIV
But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was a traitor, for he had sent envoys to So king of Egypt, and he no longer paid tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore Shalmaneser seized him and put him in prison.
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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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Matthew 5:26 NIV
Truly I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.
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Matthew 18:30 NIV
“But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt.
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1 Kings 22:27 NIV
and say, ‘This is what the king says: Put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until I return safely.’”
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2 Chronicles 16:10 NIV
Asa was angry with the seer because of this; he was so enraged that he put him in prison. At the same time Asa brutally oppressed some of the people.
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Mark 6:17 NIV
For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married.
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