14 Bible Verses about Beating Believers

But beware of men: for they will deliver you to the councils, and scourge you in their synagogues;

These are the beginning of sorrows. But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be scourged in the synagogues; and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

For this reason, behold, I send you prophets and wise men and scribes; and some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

in stripes, in prisons,, in commotions, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

others had trial of mockings and scourgings, bonds also, and imprisonments.

And I said, Lord, they themselves know that I threw into prison, and scourged, in every synagogue, those who believed on thee;

And the chief priest, Ananias, commanded those who stood by to smite him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him: God will smite you, you whitened wall! for do you sit to judge me according to the law, and yet violate the law by commanding me to be smitten?

And they were persuaded by him; and when they had called the apostles in and scourged them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

But Paul said to them: Having publicly scourged us uncondemned, us who are Romans, they threw us into prison: and do they now put us out secretly? No, verily: but let them come and lead us out.

And all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallic cared for none of these things.

And he immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. When they saw the officer and the soldiers, they ceased beating Paul.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I say it foolishly,) I am above them. In labors 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 have been shipwrecked; a night and a day I spent in the deep.

Even to this present hour we both hunger and thirst, and are poorly clothed, and are maltreated, and wander about without a home,