Genesis 42:17

by which he has granted to us his precious and exceedingly great promises; that through these you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.

The king said to me, “Why is your face sad, since you are not sick? This is nothing else but sorrow of heart.” Then I was very much afraid.

But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s bonds were loosened.

The captain of the guard assigned them to Joseph, and he took care of them. They stayed in prison many days.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

He asked Pharaoh’s officers who were with him in custody in his master’s house, saying, “Why do you look so sad today?”

“Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘You shall be holy; for I, Yahweh your God, am holy.

They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

Moses brought their cause before Yahweh.

It may be that Yahweh will look on the wrong done to me, and that Yahweh will repay me good for the cursing of me today.”

As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness. I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

But this is a robbed and plundered people. All of them are snared in holes, and they are hidden in prisons. They have become captives, and no one delivers, and a plunder, and no one says, ‘Restore them!’

The princes were angry with Jeremiah, and struck him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer to Yahweh offerings in righteousness.

But before all these things, they will lay their hands on you and will persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name’s sake.

and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man will see the Lord,

The Midianites sold him into Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard.

Joseph was brought down to Egypt. Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, the captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites that had brought him down there.

He put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and put me in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, with the chief baker.

When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “It may be that Joseph will hate us, and will fully pay us back for all the evil which we did to him.”

They put him in custody until Yahweh’s will should be declared to them.

Now, behold, I go to my people. Come, I will inform you what this people shall do to your people in the latter days.”

Elkanah her husband said to her, “Hannah, why do you weep? Why don’t you eat? Why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”

She said to Elijah, “What have I to do with you, you man of God? You have come to me to bring my sin to memory, and to kill my son!”

Say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.” ’ ”

and say, ‘The king says, “Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I return in peace.” ’ ”

We can’t reach the Almighty. He is exalted in power. In justice and great righteousness, he will not oppress.

I will sing to Yahweh, because he has been good to me.

You have also given me the shield of your salvation. Your right hand sustains me. Your gentleness has made me great.

You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

Commit your way to Yahweh. Trust also in him, and he will do this:

Be glad in Yahweh, you righteous people! Give thanks to his holy Name.

Do good to your servant. I will live and I will obey your word.

I sought your favor with my whole heart. Be merciful to me according to your word.

Do good to your servant, according to your word, Yahweh.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.

The wounds of a friend are faithful, although the kisses of an enemy are profuse.

Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.

They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

He cried like a lion: “Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.

Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabit the earth.

They will be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and will be shut up in the prison; and after many days they will be visited.

Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.

“Yahweh has made you priest in the place of Jehoiada the priest, that there may be officers in Yahweh’s house, for every man who is crazy, and makes himself a prophet, that you should put him in the stocks and in shackles.

After many days you will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought out of the peoples, and they will dwell securely, all of them.

Many will purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked will do wickedly; and none of the wicked will understand; but those who are wise will understand.

Shall it be said, O house of Jacob: “Is Yahweh’s Spirit angry? Are these his doings? Don’t my words do good to him who walks blamelessly?”

Jesus said to the chief priests, captains of the temple, and elders, who had come against him, “Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

They seized him, and led him away, and brought him into the high priest’s house. But Peter followed from a distance.

So the detachment, the commanding officer, and the officers of the Jews seized Jesus and bound him,

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

After eight days again his disciples were inside and Thomas was with them. Jesus came, the doors being locked, and stood in the middle, and said, “Peace be to you.”

They laid hands on them, and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

and laid hands on the apostles, then put them in public custody.

They stirred up the people, the elders, and the scribes, and came against him and seized him, then brought him in to the council,

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the apostles.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into every house and dragged both men and women off to prison.

and asked for letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out, and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely,

When the seven days were almost completed, the Jews from Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the multitude and laid hands on him,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

Are they servants of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself.) I am more so: in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, and in deaths often.

yet now he has reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without defect and blameless before him,

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

For most certainly, he doesn’t give help to angels, but he gives help to the offspring of Abraham.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.

For they indeed, for a few days, punished us as seemed good to them; but he for our profit, that we may be partakers of his holiness.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

“To the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: “He who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, he who opens and no one can shut, and who shuts and no one opens, says these things: