Deuteronomy 25:3

forty times he doth smite him -- he is not adding, lest, he is adding to smite him above these -- many stripes, and thy brother is lightly esteemed in thine eyes.

Job 18:3

Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

Luke 15:30

but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.

Luke 18:9-12

And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;

James 2:2-3

for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,

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Summary

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.

Not exceed

Bible References

Not exceed

2 Corinthians 11:24
from Jews five times forty stripes save one I did receive;

Vile unto thee

Job 18:3
Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!
Luke 15:30
but when thy son -- this one who did devour thy living with harlots -- came, thou didst kill to him the fatted calf.
Luke 18:9
And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:
James 2:2
for if there may come into your synagogue a man with gold ring, in gay raiment, and there may come in also a poor man in vile raiment,