14 Bible Verses about Beating Believers

But beware of men, for they will deliver you up to the sanhedrins, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

But take heed to yourselves. For they shall deliver you up to sanhedrins, and in the synagogues you shall be beaten. And you shall be brought before rulers and kings for My sake, for a testimony against them.

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

in stripes, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings; yes, more, of bonds and imprisonments.

And I said, Lord, they know that I was imprisoning and beating those who believed on You throughout the synagogues.

And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, God shall strike you, whitened wall! For do you sit judging me according to the Law, and against law command me to be stricken?

And they obeyed him. And calling the apostles, beating them, they commanded not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly, men who are Romans and uncondemned, they threw us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! But coming themselves, let them bring us out.

And all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio did not care for any of these things.

He immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. And seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, they quit beating Paul.

Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as beside myself,) I am more! I have been in labors more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more, in deaths many times.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I have spent a night and a day in the deep.

Even until this present hour we both hunger and thirst and are naked and are buffeted and have no certain dwelling place.