Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Vile unto thee

Bible References

Not exceed

2 Corinthians 11:24
Five times I have been given one less than forty lashes, by the Jews.

Vile unto thee

Luke 15:30
But when your son here came, who has eaten up your property with women of the street, for him you killed the calf you have been fattening!'
Luke 18:9
To some who were confident of their own uprightness, and thought nothing of others, he used this illustration:
James 2:2
For if a finely dressed man with a gold ring comes into a meeting, and a poor man in shabby clothes comes in also,