Thematic Bible: Punishable by


Thematic Bible



Blows that wound clean away evil; such beatings cleanse the innermost being. Verse ConceptsPurgingThe Inward BeingWoundsspankingscars

Condemnation is appropriate for mockers, just as beatings are for the backs of fools. Verse ConceptsFloggingBackRidicule, Nature OfInfidelity To GodCondemnation Of The WickedAdvice On Beating PeopleFoolsmockers


the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this. Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." Immediately those who were about to examine him stepped back, and the tribune was afraid when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had tied him up. Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

"When a person has sexual relations with a woman servant who is engaged to another man, but she has not been completely redeemed nor has her freedom been granted to her, there is to be an inquiry, but they won't be put to death, since she has not been freed. Verse ConceptsBeatingsEngagementServants Of PeopleLaws Of Sexual UnionAdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin



The elders of that city will then take the man, punish him, Verse ConceptsWhippingJudicial Punishment

If the guilty person deserves a beating, the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes fit for his crime. But he must not be beaten more than 40 lashes, because if he receives more than 40 lashes, your brother will be humiliated in your eyes.

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A rebuke is more effective with a man of understanding than a hundred lashes to a fool. Verse ConceptsFloggingRebukeOne HundredAdvice On Beating PeopleReproving PeopleDiscernmentrebuking

So I will punish him and let him go." Verse ConceptsJudicial PunishmentPeople Releasing Others

arrested Joseph, and locked him up in the same prison where the king's prisoners were confined. So Joseph remained there in prison. Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail

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