Bible verses for every occasion
Bible Verses for Someone in Prison
Whether you are behind bars yourself or love someone who is, these verses speak dignity, hope, and the nearness of God into a place the world writes off. No one is out of reach of His grace.
“Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.”
Hebrews 13:3, King James Version
God calls His people to remember the imprisoned.
“Which executeth judgment for the oppressed: which giveth food to the hungry. The LORD looseth the prisoners”
Psalm 146:7, King James Version
God has a heart to set captives free.
“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”
Isaiah 61:1, King James Version
The very mission of Jesus includes the bound.
“I was in prison, and ye came unto me.”
Matthew 25:36, King James Version
Jesus so identifies with prisoners that visiting them is visiting Him.
“Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name”
Psalm 142:7, King James Version
A prayer from the confined heart.
“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:38-39, King James Version
No wall can shut out the love of Christ.
“Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.”
2 Timothy 2:9, King James Version
Chains cannot hold back the freedom God gives.
The One these verses point to: Jesus
Some of the New Testament was written from a prison cell, by a man who found that no chain could bind the freedom Christ had given him. The gospel goes to places society gives up on, because Jesus came for exactly such people, and He is not ashamed of anyone who turns to Him. Whatever a person has done, they are not beyond His grace. Real freedom, the kind that reaches the soul even behind bars, is found in the One who came to set the captives free.
You do not have to hold this moment alone. You can ask real people to pray with you, find a church near you, or, if you would like a gentle place to begin, start with Jesus here.
