16 Bible Verses about Judicial Punishment

or to governors as those sent out by him to punish those who do what is evil and to praise those who do what is good.

For government is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, because it does not carry the sword for no reason. For government is God’s servant, an avenger that brings wrath on the one who does wrong.

When a mocker is punished,
the inexperienced become wiser;
when one teaches a wise man,
he acquires knowledge.

This word is by decree of the observers;
the matter is a command from the holy ones.
This is so the living will know
that the Most High is ruler
over the kingdom of men.
He gives it to anyone He wants
and sets the lowliest of men over it.

And his master got angry and handed him over to the jailers to be tortured until he could pay everything that was owed.

Therefore, I will have Him whipped and then release Him.”

A third time he said to them, “Why? What has this man done wrong? I have found in Him no grounds for the death penalty. Therefore, I will have Him whipped and then release Him.”

“When a man strikes his male or female slave with a rod, and the slave dies under his abuse, the owner must be punished.

Stay far away from a false accusation. Do not kill the innocent and the just, because I will not justify the guilty.

Then the elders of that city will take the man and punish him.

“When men get in a fight and hit a pregnant woman so that her children are born prematurely but there is no injury, the one who hit her must be fined as the woman’s husband demands from him, and he must pay according to judicial assessment.

No person who has been set apart for destruction is to be ransomed; he must be put to death.

Anyone who does not keep the law of your God and the law of the king, let a fair judgment be executed against him, whether death, banishment, confiscation of property, or imprisonment.

If any man inflicts a permanent injury on his neighbor, whatever he has done is to be done to him: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Whatever injury he inflicted on the person, the same is to be inflicted on him.

You must not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

“You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.