Thematic Bible: Punishable by


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It takes a painful experience to cleanse our hearts. Verse ConceptsPurgingThe Inward BeingWoundsspankingscars



The Roman commander ordered his men to take Paul into the barracks. He told them to whip him in order to find out why the Jews were screaming like this against him. Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

At once the men who were going to question Paul drew back from him. The commander was frightened when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had put him in chains. Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

If a man has sexual intercourse with a female slave who is engaged to another man and if her freedom was never bought or given to her, they should not be put to death. He will only pay a fine because she is a slave. Verse ConceptsBeatingsEngagementServants Of PeopleLaws Of Sexual UnionAdulteryDeath Penalty For Sexual Sin



The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him, Verse ConceptsWhippingJudicial Punishment

If the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge will then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence. The number of lashes is according to his guilt. He must not beat him more than forty lashes. If he beats more than that your brother will be degraded in your eyes.

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Reproof influences a wise man more than a hundred stripes does to a fool. Verse ConceptsFloggingRebukeOne HundredAdvice On Beating PeopleReproving PeopleDiscernmentrebuking

I will therefore punish him, and release him. Verse ConceptsJudicial PunishmentPeople Releasing Others

and threw Joseph in the same prison where the king's prisoners were kept. While Joseph was in prison, Verse ConceptsImprisonmentsEmployers, Bad ExamplesPrisonsjail