16 Bible Verses about Judicial Punishment

or to governors as those he commissions to punish wrongdoers and praise those who do good.

for it is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be in fear, for it does not bear the sword in vain. It is God's servant to administer retribution on the wrongdoer.

When a scorner is punished, the naive becomes wise; when a wise person is instructed, he gains knowledge.

This announcement is by the decree of the sentinels; this decision is by the pronouncement of the holy ones, so that those who are alive may understand that the Most High has authority over human kingdoms, and he bestows them on whomever he wishes. He establishes over them even the lowliest of human beings.'

And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.

I will therefore have him flogged and release him."

A third time he said to them, "Why? What wrong has he done? I have found him guilty of no crime deserving death. I will therefore flog him and release him."

"If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

Keep your distance from a false charge -- do not kill the innocent and the righteous, for I will not justify the wicked.

The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.

"If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman's husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

Any human being who is permanently dedicated must not be ransomed; such a person must be put to death.

Everyone who does not observe both the law of your God and the law of the king will be completely liable to the appropriate penalty, whether it is death or banishment or confiscation of property or detainment in prison."

If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him -- fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth -- just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

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