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 taken thirty-nine lashes from the Jews,
Vile unto thee
Luke 15:30
But when this son of yours arrives, who has eaten up your property with immoral women, you have killed for him the fattening calf.'
Luke 18:9
To some people who were confident that they themselves were upright, but who scorned everybody else, He told the following story:
James 2:2
For if a man with a gold ring, dressed in fine clothes, comes to your meeting, and at the same time a poor man clad in dirty clothes,