13 Bible Verses about Beating Believers
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Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues,
"But be on your guard. For they will deliver you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them.
Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
And I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.
And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
and when they had called in the apostles, they beat them and charged them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.
But Paul said to them, "They have beaten us publicly, uncondemned, men who are Roman citizens, and have thrown us into prison; and do they now throw us out secretly? No! Let them come themselves and take us out."
And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.
He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.
Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one--I am talking like a madman--with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;
To the present hour we hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and buffeted and homeless,
