16 Bible Verses about Judicial Punishment
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or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.
for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn't bear the sword in vain; for he is a servant of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil.
When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.
His lord was angry, and delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all that was due to him.
He said to them the third time, "Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him."
"If a man strikes his servant or his maid with a rod, and he dies under his hand, he shall surely be punished.
"Keep far from a false charge, and don't kill the innocent and righteous: for I will not justify the wicked.
"If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.
"'No one devoted, who shall be devoted from among men, shall be ransomed; he shall surely be put to death.
Whoever will not do the law of your God, and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with all diligence, whether it be to death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to imprisonment.
If anyone injures his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to him: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; as he has injured someone, so shall it be done to him.
Your eyes shall not pity; life [shall go] for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.
Bible Theasaurus
- Judicial (17 instances)
