Deuteronomy 25:3
With forty stripes shall they beat him; they shall not exceed, lest, if they continue to beat him with many stripes above these, thy brother become despicable in thine eyes.
Job 18:3
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed stupid in your sight?
Luke 15:30
but when this thy son, who has devoured thy substance with harlots, is come, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Luke 18:9-12
And he spoke also to some, who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and made nothing of all the rest of men, this parable:
2 Corinthians 11:24-25
From the Jews five times have I received forty stripes, save one.
James 2:2-3
for if there come unto your synagogue a man with a gold ring in splendid apparel, and a poor man also come in in vile apparel,