36 Bible Verses about Flogging

And if the trespasser be worthy of stripes, then let the judge cause to take him down and to beat him before his face according to his trespass, unto a certain number. Forty stripes he shall give him and not pass: lest if he should exceed and beat him above that with many stripes, thy brother should appear ungodly before thine eyes.

"If a man smite his servant or his maid with a staff that they die under his hand, it shall be avenged.

If thou smitest a scornful person, the ignorant shall take better heed; and if thou reprovest one that hath understanding, he will be the wiser.

For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye take it patiently? But and if when ye do well, ye suffer wrong and take it patiently, then is there thanks with God.

And I reproved them, and cursed them, and smote certain men of them, and plucked them up, and took an oath of them by God, "Ye shall not give your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons, or for yourselves.

One reproof only doth more good to him that hath understanding, than a hundred stripes unto a fool.

A fool's lips are ever brawling, and his mouth provoketh unto battle.

Punishments are ordained for the scornful, and stripes for fools' backs.

The servant that knew his master's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and yet did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whom much is given: of him shall be much required. And to whom men much commit, the more of him will they ask.

But I offer my back unto the smiters, and my cheeks to the nippers. I turn not my face from shame and spitting,

Others tasted of mockings, and scourgings, moreover of bonds and prisonment:

And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten. And it was said unto them, "Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and today, as well as in times past?"

To punish the innocent, and to smite the princes that give true judgment, are both evil.

he smote Jeremiah, and put him in the stocks, that are by the high gate of Benjamin, in the house of the LORD.

Wherefore the princes were angry with Jeremiah, causing him to be beaten, and to be laid in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe. For he was the ruler of the prison.

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, loosed them Barabbas; And delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, for to be crucified.

Then let he Barabbas loose unto them, and scourged Jesus, and delivered him to be crucified.

Then Pilate took Jesus and scourged him.

He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. The correction that brought us peace was on him, and with his stripes we were healed.

and shall deliver him to the gentiles, to be mocked, to be scourged, and to be crucified: and the third day he shall rise again."

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

He shall be delivered unto the gentiles, and shall be mocked, and shall be despitefully entreated, and shall be spitted on:

Beware of men: for they shall deliver you up to the councils, and shall scourge you in their synagogues;

And to him they agreed, and called the apostles, and beat them, and commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

"Wherefore, Behold, I send unto you prophets, wise men, and scribes. And of them: some shall ye kill and crucify, and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;

But take ye heed to yourselves. For they shall bring you up to the councils, and into the synagogues, and ye shall be beaten, and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings, for my sake, for a testimonial unto them.

And the people ran on them, and the officers rent their clothes, and commanded them to be beaten with rods, and when they had beaten them sore, they cast them into prison commanding the jailer to keep them surely.

Then took all the Greeks Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the Synagogue, and smote him before the judge's seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

And I said, 'Lord they know that I prisoned, and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee.

in stripes, in prisonment, in strife, in labour, in watching, in fasting,

in death often. Of the Jews, five times received I, every time, forty stripes, save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods. I was once stoned. I suffered thrice shipwreck. Night and day have I been in the deep of the sea.

I will be his father and he shall be my son; insomuch that if he sin, I will but rebuke him with such a rod as men be rebuked with and with such plagues as the children of men be plagued with.

He shall keep thee from the perilous tongue so that when trouble cometh, thou shalt not need to fear.

I will visit their offenses with the rod, and their sins with scourges.

Moreover, the LORD of Hosts shall prepare a scourge for him, like as was the punishment of Midian upon the mount of Oreb. And he shall lift up his rod over the sea, as he did sometimes over the Egyptians.

Behold thou poor, vexed, and despised: I will make thy walls of precious stones, and thy foundation of Sapphires;