8 Bible Verses about Accepting Beatings

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.

For you permit it, if a man brings you into bondage, if a man devours you, if a man takes of you, if a man exalts himself, if a man smites you on the face.

For what glory is it, if, when you be buffeted for your faults, you shall take it patiently? but if, when you do well, and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is commendable with God.

But I say unto you, That you resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also.

And unto him that smites you on the one cheek offer also the other; and he that takes away your cloak forbid not to take your coat also.

He gives his cheek to him that strikes him: he is filled full with reproach.

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked out the beard: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

They have stricken me, you shall say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.