100 Bible Verses about Meditation (KJV)

Here are 100 Bible verses about meditation, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Psalm 19:14 KJV

¹⁴Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

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Psalm 119:15 KJV

¹⁵I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

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Joshua 1:8 KJV

⁸This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.

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Psalm 104:34 KJV

³⁴My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.

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Philippians 4:8 KJV

⁸Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

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Psalm 119:97 KJV

⁹⁷O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.

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Psalm 63:6 KJV

⁶When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.

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Psalm 49:3 KJV

³My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.

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Psalm 143:5 KJV

⁵I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.

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Psalm 1:2 KJV

²But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

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Isaiah 26:3 KJV

³Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

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Psalm 119:148 KJV

¹⁴⁸Mine eyes prevent the night watches, that I might meditate in thy word.

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Psalm 77:12 KJV

¹²I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

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Proverbs 4:20-22 KJV

²⁰My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. ²¹Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. ²²For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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Matthew 6:6 KJV

⁶But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.

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Psalm 119:11 KJV

¹¹Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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Psalm 119:78 KJV

⁷⁸Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.

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Psalm 119:97-99 KJV

⁹⁷O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. ⁹⁸Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies: for they are ever with me. ⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

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Romans 12:2 KJV

²And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

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Psalm 1:1-6 KJV

¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. ²But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. ³And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he …

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Psalm 119:23 KJV

²³Princes also did sit and speak against me: but thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

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Psalm 4:4 KJV

⁴Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah.

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Genesis 24:63 KJV

⁶³And Isaac went out to meditate in the field at the eventide: and he lifted up his eyes, and saw, and, behold, the camels were coming.

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Psalm 145:5 KJV

⁵I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty, and of thy wondrous works.

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Psalm 119:99 KJV

⁹⁹I have more understanding than all my teachers: for thy testimonies are my meditation.

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Psalm 119:27 KJV

²⁷Make me to understand the way of thy precepts: so shall I talk of thy wondrous works.

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1 Timothy 4:13-15 KJV

¹³Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine. ¹⁴Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery. ¹⁵Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

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Psalm 119:48 KJV

⁴⁸My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

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Psalm 119:127 KJV

¹²⁷Therefore I love thy commandments above gold; yea, above fine gold.

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Romans 10:17 KJV

¹⁷So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

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Psalm 77:11 KJV

¹¹I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

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Psalm 77:10-12 KJV

¹⁰And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. ¹¹I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. ¹²I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

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Psalm 119:55 KJV

⁵⁵I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law.

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Hebrews 4:12 KJV

¹²For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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2 Timothy 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: ¹⁷That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.

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Matthew 4:4 KJV

⁴But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

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Psalm 46:10 KJV

¹⁰Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.

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Psalm 1:1-2 KJV

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Colossians 3:16 KJV

¹⁶Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

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Psalm 77:6 KJV

⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

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Psalm 119:15-16 KJV

¹⁵I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways. ¹⁶I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

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Revelation 1:1 KJV

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

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Psalm 119:9-11 KJV

⁹Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word. ¹⁰With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments. ¹¹Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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Luke 1:37 KJV

³⁷For with God nothing shall be impossible.

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Philippians 4:13 KJV

¹³I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

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Psalm 16:8 KJV

⁸I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.

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Proverbs 4:23 KJV

²³Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

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Psalm 119:1-176 KJV

¹Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. ²Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. ³They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways. ⁴Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. ⁵O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! …

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Psalm 39:3 KJV

³My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,

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2 Timothy 2:15 KJV

¹⁵Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

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Psalm 1:3 KJV

³And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.

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2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV

¹⁷Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

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Colossians 3:1-25 KJV

¹If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. ²Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. ³For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. …

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John 14:27 KJV

²⁷Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

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Psalm 23:1-6 KJV

¹The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. ²He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. ³He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. ⁴Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. …

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2 Corinthians 10:5 KJV

⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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Romans 12:1 KJV

¹I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

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Romans 5:8 KJV

⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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1 Timothy 4:15 KJV

¹⁵Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

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John 14:6 KJV

⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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Philippians 4:6 KJV

⁶Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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2 Timothy 3:16 KJV

¹⁶All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

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Psalm 111:2 KJV

²The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

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Colossians 3:2 KJV

²Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

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Psalm 48:9 KJV

⁹We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

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2 Timothy 2:7 KJV

⁷Consider what I say; and the Lord give thee understanding in all things.

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1 Timothy 4:13 KJV

¹³Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

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1 Peter 5:7 KJV

⁷Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

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Matthew 6:34 KJV

³⁴Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

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2 Corinthians 10:4-5 KJV

⁴(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) ⁵Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;

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Hebrews 11:1 KJV

¹Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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Matthew 6:33 KJV

³³But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

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Jeremiah 29:11 KJV

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

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Psalm 1:1-3 KJV

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John 10:10 KJV

¹⁰The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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Psalm 16:7 KJV

⁷I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.

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Psalm 119:59 KJV

⁵⁹I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

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Psalm 139:17 KJV

¹⁷How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

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Psalm 23:1 KJV

¹The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

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Psalm 1:1 KJV

¹Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.

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Job 15:4 KJV

⁴Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

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1 John 1:9 KJV

⁹If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Job 22:22 KJV

²²Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, and lay up his words in thine heart.

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James 4:7 KJV

⁷Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Romans 8:28 KJV

²⁸And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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Proverbs 6:6 KJV

⁶Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

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John 1:1 KJV

¹In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

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Psalm 63:5 KJV

⁵My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

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Psalm 119:16 KJV

¹⁶I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Acts 3:1-26 KJV

¹Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. ²And a certain man lame from his mother’s womb was carried, whom they laid daily at the gate of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple; ³Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms. ⁴And Peter, …

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John 15:13 KJV

¹³Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

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1 John 3:1 KJV

¹Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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Acts 2:38 KJV

³⁸Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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Psalm 139:17-18 KJV

¹⁷How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them! ¹⁸If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand: when I awake, I am still with thee.

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2 Peter 2:9 KJV

⁹The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

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Romans 8:38-39 KJV

³⁸For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, ³⁹Nor 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.

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Psalm 103:13-14 KJV

¹³Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. ¹⁴For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

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Genesis 39:20-21 KJV

²⁰And Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, a place where the king’s prisoners were bound: and he was there in the prison. ²¹But the Lord was with Joseph, and shewed him mercy, and gave him favour in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

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