17 Bible Verses about Equality Of Punishment

Most Relevant Verses

Leviticus 24:17-22

‘If a man takes the life of any human being [unlawfully], he shall most certainly be put to death. The one who kills an animal shall replace it, animal for animal. If a man injures his neighbor (fellow citizen), whatever he has done shall be done to him: read more.
fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so shall the same be done to him. The one who kills an animal shall replace it; but he who kills a human being [unlawfully] shall be put to death. You shall have one standard of law for the stranger among you as well as for the native, for I am the Lord your God.’”

Exodus 21:24

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

Leviticus 24:20

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so shall the same be done to him.

Deuteronomy 19:21

You shall not show pity [to the guilty one]: it shall be life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

Matthew 5:38

“You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth [punishment that fits the offense].’

Exodus 21:25

burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

Exodus 21:36

Or if it is known that the ox was previously in the habit of goring, and its owner has not kept it confined, he must make restitution of ox for ox, and the dead [animal] shall be his.

Exodus 21:23

But if there is any further injury, then you shall require [as a penalty] life for life,

Leviticus 24:17-18

‘If a man takes the life of any human being [unlawfully], he shall most certainly be put to death. The one who kills an animal shall replace it, animal for animal.

Leviticus 24:18

The one who kills an animal shall replace it, animal for animal.

1 Kings 20:39

As the king passed by, the prophet called out to the king and said, “Your servant went out into the middle of the battle, and behold, a man turned aside and brought a man to me and said, ‘Guard this man; if for any reason he is missing, then your life shall be required for his life, or else you shall pay a talent of silver.’

1 Kings 20:42

He said to the king, “Thus says the Lord: ‘Because you have released from your hand the man [Ben-hadad] whom I had devoted to destruction, your life shall be required for his life, and your people for his people.’”

2 Kings 10:24

Then they went in to offer sacrifices and burnt offerings.Now Jehu had stationed eighty men outside for himself and said, “If any of the men whom I have brought into your hands escape, the one who lets him go shall forfeit his own life for that man’s life.”

Ezekiel 14:10

They [both] will bear the punishment of their wickedness; the sin of the [counterfeit] prophet will be the same as the sin of the [hypocritical] inquirer,

Ezekiel 16:59

Yes, thus says the Lord God, “I will also deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

Numbers 33:56

And as I [the Lord] planned to do to them, so I will do to you.’”

Deuteronomy 19:19

then you shall do to him just as he had intended to do to his brother. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

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