The best Bible verses for prison include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for prison, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"they all come bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand."Habakkuk 1:9
"they all come bent on violence. Their hordes advance like a desert wind and gather prisoners like sand."Habakkuk 1:9
"You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions."Hebrews 10:34
"Remember those in prison as if you were their fellow prisoners, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering."Hebrews 13:3
"All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away."Isaiah 22:3
"They will be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon; they will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days."Isaiah 24:22
"to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness."Isaiah 42:7
"The cowering prisoners will soon be set free; they will not die in their dungeon, nor will they lack bread."Isaiah 51:14
"Now Jeremiah was free to come and go among the people, for he had not yet been put in prison."Jeremiah 37:4
"They were angry with Jeremiah and had him beaten and imprisoned in the house of Jonathan the secretary, which they had made into a prison."Jeremiah 37:15
"Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, “What crime have I committed against you or your officials or this people, that you have put me in prison?"Jeremiah 37:18
"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."Jeremiah 52:11
"The commander of the guard took as prisoners Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest next in rank and the three doorkeepers."Jeremiah 52:24
"So Jehoiachin put aside his prison clothes and for the rest of his life ate regularly at the king’s table."Jeremiah 52:33
"But it is your custom for me to release to you one prisoner at the time of the Passover. Do you want me to release ‘the king of the Jews’?”"John 18:39
Scripture returns to prison often enough that no single verse covers it. The 15 passages below come from across the Old and New Testaments, and they do not all say the same thing — read together they give a fuller picture than any one of them does alone.
Each links to a study page with the full passage, its context, and the text in six translations, so a verse that catches your attention can be followed properly rather than left as a fragment.
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The most-cited Bible verses for prison are Habakkuk 1:9, Hebrews 10:34, Hebrews 13:3. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to prison across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for prison, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.