35 Bible Verses about Flogging
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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.
"When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.
Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
For what credit is it if, when you sin and are beaten for it, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer for it you endure, this is a gracious thing in the sight of God.
And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take oath in the name of God, saying, "You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
Condemnation is ready for scoffers, and beating for the backs of fools.
And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
I gave my back to those who strike, and my cheeks to those who pull out the beard; I hid not my face from disgrace and spitting.
Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment.
And the foremen of the people of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten and were asked, "Why have you not done all your task of making bricks today and yesterday, as in the past?"
To impose a fine on a righteous man is not good, nor to strike the noble for their uprightness.
Then Pashhur beat Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the upper Benjamin Gate of the house of the LORD.
And the officials were enraged at Jeremiah, and they beat him and imprisoned him in the house of Jonathan the secretary, for it had been made a prison.
So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.
Then he released for them Barabbas, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day."
And they will mock him and spit on him, and flog him and kill him. And after three days he will rise."
For he will be delivered over to the Gentiles and will be mocked and shamefully treated and spit upon.
Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to courts and flog you in their synagogues,
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 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.
The crowd joined in attacking them, and the magistrates tore the garments off them and gave orders to beat them with rods. And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely.
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.
And I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.
Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. 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;
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with the stripes of the sons of men,
You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.
then I will punish their transgression with the rod and their iniquity with stripes,
And the LORD of hosts will wield against them a whip, as when he struck Midian at the rock of Oreb. And his staff will be over the sea, and he will lift it as he did in Egypt.
"O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.