36 Bible Verses about Flogging

And it shall be if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten the judge shall cause him to lie down and to be beaten in his presence, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him and not exceed lest if he should exceed and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should be despised before thee.

And if a man smites his slave or his maid with a rod and he dies under his hand, he shall be surely punished.

Smite a scorner, and the simple will become prudent, and reproving one that has understanding, he will understand knowledge.

For what glory is it if, when ye are buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is due to grace from God.

And I contended with them and cursed them and smote certain of them and plucked off their hair and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons nor take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

Reproof is of more benefit to a wise man than a hundred stripes to a fool.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calls for strokes.

Judgments are prepared for scorners and stripes for the back of fools.

And that slave who knew his lord's will and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not and did commit things worthy of stripes shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required; and to whom much was committed, more will be asked of him.

I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to those that plucked off the hair: I did not hide my face from shame and spitting.

and others experienced cruel mockings and scourgings, and added to this, bonds and imprisonment;

And the officers of the sons of Israel, whom Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and they demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your quotas in making brick both yesterday and today, as until now?

It is certainly not good to condemn the just, nor to smite princes for doing that which is upright.

Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were at the gate of Benjamin on the high place, which is in the house of the LORD.

Therefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah and smote him and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas unto them and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

Then he released Barabbas unto them; and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

Then Pilate, therefore, took Jesus and scourged him.

But he was wounded for our rebellions; he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and by his stripes healing was provided for us.

and shall deliver him to the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify; ; and the third day he shall rise again.

and they shall mock him and shall scourge him and shall spit upon him and shall kill him; but the third day he shall rise again.

For he shall be delivered unto the Gentiles and shall be mocked and spitefully treated and spitted on;

But keep yourselves from men, for they will deliver you up in councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues;

And they agreed with him; and when they had called the apostles and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and let them go.

Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets and wise men and scribes, and some of them ye shall kill and crucify, and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues and persecute them from city to city,

But take heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up in the councils, and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten; and ye shall be called before rulers and kings for my sake for a testimony unto them.

And the multitude rose up together against them, and the magistrates rent off their clothes and commanded to beat them. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely,

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and in every synagogue beat those that believed on thee;

in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings,

Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned; three times I suffered shipwreck, night and day I have been in the deep;

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men;

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue; neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it comes.

then I will visit their rebellion with the rod and their iniquity with stripes.

And the LORD of the hosts shall raise up a scourge against him as the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb and shall raise up his rod upon the sea, by the way of Egypt.

O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will cement thy stones upon carbuncle and lay thy foundations upon sapphires.