Acts 16:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

When they had laid many stripes on them, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailer to keep them securely.

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  • 1 Sam 23:22-23 : 22 Go, I pray you, prepare yet, and know and see his place where his haunt is, and who has seen him there; for it is told me that he deals very subtly. 23 See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you; and it shall come to pass, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.
  • Matt 26:48 : 48 Now he that betrayed him gave them a sign, saying, Whomever I shall kiss, that same is he: hold him fast.
  • Matt 27:63-66 : 63 Saying, Sir, we remember that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again. 64 Command therefore that the sepulcher be made secure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say to the people, He is risen from the dead; so the last deception will be worse than the first. 65 Pilate said unto them, You have a guard; go your way, make it as secure as you can. 66 So they went, and made the sepulcher secure, sealing the stone and setting a guard.
  • Luke 21:12 : 12 But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.
  • Acts 5:18 : 18 And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.
  • Acts 5:23 : 23 Saying, We found the prison truly shut securely, and the guards standing outside before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.
  • Acts 8:3 : 3 As for Saul, he ravaged the church, entering every house and dragging off men and women, committing them to prison.
  • Acts 9:2 : 2 And requested letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
  • Acts 12:4 : 4 And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison and handed him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after Passover.
  • Acts 12:18 : 18 Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.
  • Acts 16:27 : 27 The keeper of the prison, awakening from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners had fled.
  • Acts 16:36 : 36 So the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go; therefore depart and go in peace.
  • Eph 3:1 : 1 For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling with which you are called,
  • 2 Tim 2:9 : 9 For which I suffer trouble as an evildoer, even to the point of chains; but the word of God is not chained.
  • Phlm 1:9 : 9 Yet for love's sake I rather appeal to you, being such a one as Paul, the aged, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus.
  • Rev 1:9 : 9 I, John, who am also your brother and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was on the island called Patmos, for the word of God and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.
  • Rev 2:10 : 10 Fear none of those things which you will suffer. Behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be faithful unto death, and I will give you a crown of life.

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  • Acts 16:24-27
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    24Having received such a charge, he put them into the inner prison and fastened their feet in the stocks.

    25At midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

    26Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were loosed.

    27The keeper of the prison, awakening from sleep and seeing the prison doors open, drew his sword and was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners had fled.

  • Acts 16:19-22
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    19When her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace to the rulers.

    20And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being Jews, exceedingly trouble our city,

    21And teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive or observe, being Romans.

    22Then the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates tore off their clothes and commanded them to be beaten with rods.

  • Acts 16:35-40
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    35When it was day, the magistrates sent the officers, saying, Let those men go.

    36So the keeper of the prison told these words to Paul, The magistrates have sent to let you go; therefore depart and go in peace.

    37But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly, uncondemned Romans, and have thrown us into prison. And now do they press us out secretly? No indeed! Let them come themselves and get us out.

    38And the officers told these words to the magistrates, and they were afraid when they heard that they were Romans.

    39Then they came and pleaded with them and brought them out, and asked them to depart from the city.

    40So they went out of the prison and entered the house of Lydia; and when they had seen the brethren, they encouraged them and departed.

  • Acts 5:18-19
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    18And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison.

    19But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,

  • Acts 4:3
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    3And they seized them and put them in custody until the next day, for it was now evening.

  • Acts 17:8-9
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    8And they troubled the crowd and the rulers of the city when they heard these things.

    9And when they had taken security from Jason and the others, they let them go.

  • Acts 22:23-25
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    23And as they cried out and threw off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

    24The chief captain ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and directed that he be examined by scourging, to find out why they shouted so against him.

    25And as they bound him with straps, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?

  • Acts 5:21-23
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    21And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning and taught. But the high priest came, and those with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

    22But when the officers came and found them not in the prison, they returned and told,

    23Saying, We found the prison truly shut securely, and the guards standing outside before the doors, but when we opened them, we found no one inside.

  • Acts 5:40
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    40And they agreed with him: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

  • Acts 21:32-33
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    32Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

    33Then the chief captain came near, took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and asked who he was, and what he had done.

  • Acts 22:19
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    19And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.

  • Acts 23:10
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    10And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing that Paul might be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the barracks.

  • Acts 16:29-30
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    29Then he called for a light, ran in, and fell down trembling before Paul and Silas.

    30And brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

  • Heb 11:36
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    36Still others had trials of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment.

  • Acts 5:26
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    26Then the captain went with the officers and brought them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

  • Acts 14:5-6
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    5And when an attempt was made by both the Gentiles and the Jews with their rulers to mistreat and stone them,

    6They became aware of it and fled to Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and to the surrounding region,

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    3And he put them in custody in the house of the captain of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

  • Acts 18:16-17
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    16And he drove them from the judgment seat.

    17Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the judgment seat. But Gallio cared for none of these things.

  • Acts 16:33
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    33And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and immediately he and all his family were baptized.

  • 2 Cor 11:24
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    24From the Jews five times I received forty lashes minus one.

  • Acts 4:21
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    21So when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people, since all glorified God for what had been done.

  • Acts 24:7
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    7But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great force took him away out of our hands,

  • Acts 26:11
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    11And I punished them often in every synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

  • Acts 12:6
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    6And when Herod was about to bring him out, that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the guards before the door were keeping the prison.

  • John 18:12
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    12Then the band and the captain and officers of the Jews arrested Jesus and bound him,

  • Luke 21:12
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    12But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you, and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and into prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake.

  • Jer 37:15
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    15Therefore 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.

  • Acts 28:16
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    16And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard, but Paul was allowed to stay by himself with the soldier who guarded him.

  • Matt 27:2
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    2And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the governor.