Thematic Bible




Thematic Bible



Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.



the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they yelled at him like that.

Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.

"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.



The elders of that city shall take the 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 wickedness, by number. Forty stripes he may give him, he shall not exceed; lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then your brother should seem vile to you.

A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

I will therefore chastise him and release him."



and you have forgotten the exhortation which reasons with you as with children, "My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor lose heart when you are reproved by him;

Let the righteous strike me, it is kindness; let him reprove me, it is like oil on the head; do not let my head refuse it; Yet my prayer is always against evil deeds.




A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.

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


A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.


A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.