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
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,