18 Bible Verses about Flogging

For what credit is it if, when you are struck for a fault, you take it patiently? But if when you are doing well and suffer for it, you always take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

"The slave who knew his Lord's will, and made not ready, nor did according to his will, will be beaten with many lashes, "but he who did not know, but did things worthy of a beating, will receive few lashes. To whom much has been given, from him much will be required, and to whom much is entrusted, of him they will ask the more.

Others again bore trial of mockings and scourgings, yes, even of chains and imprisonment.

So Pilate, who wished to make himself strong with the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and gave Jesus over for crucifixion, after he had scourged him.

Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he scourged, and delivered to be crucified.

After that Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged;

"and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; and on the third day he will rise from the grave."

who will mock him, spit upon him, flog him, and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again."

"He will be betrayed to the Gentiles, and be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spit upon;

"But beware of men! For they will give you up to the Sanhedrin, and flog you in their synagogues.

They gave in to him; and called the apostles in, and after flogging them, released them, with instructions not to speak about the name of Jesus.

"For this cause, behold! I am sending you prophets and wise men and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city;

"You yourselves must be on your guard. They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged on the synagogues; and you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, to witness to them for me.

The crowd, too, rose up together against them, and the praetors, after having them stripped, and after ordering them to be flogged, had many lashes inflicted upon them, and put them in prison, with a charge to the jailer to keep them safe.

Then they all laid hold of Sosthenes, the warden of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal; but Gallio took no notice.

"'Lord,' I replied, 'they themselves well know that I was beating and imprisoning in synagogue after synagogue those who believed in you,

by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;

Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes. Three times I have been scourged by the Romans; once I have been stoned; three times have I been shipwrecked; a night and a day have I been adrift in the open sea.