Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



Blows of a wound cleanse away evil: as do stripes the inner depths of the heart.



The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the barracks, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know why they cried so against him.

Then immediately they departed from him who should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

And whosoever lies carnally with a woman, that is a slave, betrothed to a husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; there shall be punishment; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.



And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him more than these with many stripes, then your brother should seem degraded unto you.



And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks unto you as unto children, My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are rebuked of him:

Let the righteous strike me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be against their evil.




A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.

It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.


A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.


A reproof enters more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.