9 Bible Verses about Beating People

"When men quarrel and one strikes the other with a stone or with his fist and the man does not die but takes to his bed,

"Whoever strikes a man so that he dies shall be put to death.

"When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.

"Whoever strikes his father or his mother shall be put to death.

burn for burn, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense. Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one.