7 Bible Verses about Advice On Beating People
Most Relevant Verses
It is also not good to fine the righteous,
Nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
then it shall be that if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with a [certain] number of stripes in proportion to his offense.
Strike a scoffer [for refusing to learn], and the naive may [be warned and] become prudent;
Reprimand one who has understanding and a teachable spirit, and he will gain knowledge and insight.
A reprimand goes deeper into one who has understanding and a teachable spirit
Than a hundred lashes into a fool.
Judgments are prepared for scoffers,
And beatings for the backs of [thickheaded] fools.
Do not withhold discipline from the child;
If you swat him with a reed-like rod [applied with godly wisdom], he will not die.
You shall swat him with the reed-like rod
And rescue his life from Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead).