Deuteronomy 25:3
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.
Job 18:3
Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
Luke 15:30
But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
Luke 18:9-12
And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
2 Corinthians 11:24-25
Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
James 2:2-3
For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;