Deuteronomy 25:3
Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.
Job 18:3
Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?
Luke 15:30
But when this, your son, came, who has devoured your living with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.'
Luke 18:9-12
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
2 Corinthians 11:24-25
Five times from the Jews I received forty stripes minus one.
James 2:2-3
For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in;