16 Bible Verses about Judicial Punishment
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or to governors who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to praise those who do right.
For they are God's servants, working for your good.
When a mocker is punished, the fool gains wisdom; but when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
This order is announced by the observers, and the holy ones declare the verdict, so that the living may know that the Most High is sovereign over human kingdoms and grants them to whomever he desires, and he places the least important of men over them.'
In anger his master handed him over to the jailers until he could repay the entire debt.
Then he spoke to them a third time: "What has he done wrong? I have found nothing in him worthy of death. So I will punish him and let him go."
"If a man strikes his male or female servant with a stick and he or she dies as a direct result, the master must be punished.
Stay far away from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent or the righteous, because I won't acquit the guilty.
"If two men are fighting and they strike a pregnant woman and her children are born prematurely, but there is no harm, he is certainly to be fined as the husband of the woman demands of him, and he will pay as the court decides.
But anyone who is completely devoted from among human beings is not to be ransomed. He is certainly to be put to death.
Whoever refuses to practice the law of your God and the law of the king is to see judgment executed quickly, whether to death, banishment, confiscation of goods, or imprisonment.
If a man disfigures his fellow, whatever he did is to be done to him also. Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth just as he had caused a disfigurement against another man, so it is to be done against him.
Your eyes must not show pity life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot."
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- Judicial (17 instances)
