14 Bible Verses about Beating Believers

Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.

"You must watch out for yourselves. You will be handed over to councils and beaten in the synagogues. You will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a witness to them.

"For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in troubles, in sleepless nights, in hunger,

And others experienced mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.

I replied, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat those in the various synagogues who believed in you.

At that the high priest Ananias ordered those standing near Paul to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit there judging me according to the law, and in violation of the law you order me to be struck?"

and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.

But Paul said to the police officers, "They had us beaten in public without a proper trial -- even though we are Roman citizens -- and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!"

So they all seized Sosthenes, the president of the synagogue, and began to beat him in front of the judgment seat. Yet none of these things were of any concern to Gallio.

He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Are they servants of Christ? (I am talking like I am out of my mind!) I am even more so: with much greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with more severe beatings, facing death many times.

Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.