14 Bible Verses about Beating Believers

Beware of men! They will take you to court! They will have you beaten in their meeting places.

Be on guard for they will deliver you up to courts. You will be beaten in the meeting places. You will be taken before governors and kings for a testimony to them for my sake.

Look! I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will torture and kill. Others you will torment and persecute from city to city.

in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;

And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging and bonds and imprisonment.

I answered, 'Lord they know very well that I went to the synagogues and arrested and beat those who believe in you.

The high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Paul said to him: God will strike you, white washed wall! Do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be struck?

They agreed with him and called the apostles. They beat them and commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus. Then they let them go.

Paul said to them: They have beaten us publicly uncondemned, men who are Romans, and have thrown us into prison. Do they now throw us out privately? No I say, but let them come in person to bring us out.

They all grabbed Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the court. Gallio did not care about this.

At once he took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the military commander and the soldiers they quit beating Paul.

Are they ministers of Christ? I speak as a fool. I am more in labors more abundant, beaten beyond number, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, I suffered shipwreck three times, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst. We are naked. We are treated badly and we are homeless.