14 Bible Verses about Beating Believers

But keep yourselves from men, for they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

But take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up in the councils, and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten; and ye shall be called before rulers and kings for my sake for a testimony unto them.

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city,

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;

And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and in every synagogue beat those that believed on thee;

And the prince of the priests, Ananias, commanded those that stood by him to smite him on the mouth. Then Paul said unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whitewashed wall, for dost thou sit to judge me after the law and command me to be smitten contrary to the law?

And they agreed with him; and when they had called the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.

But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out in secret? no indeed; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

who immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down unto them; and when they saw the tribunal and the soldiers, they left off beating Paul.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more, in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths often.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned; three times I suffered shipwreck, night and day I have been in the deep;

Even unto this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are ill clad and are buffeted and have no certain dwellingplace