36 Bible Verses about Flogging
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If the wicked man deserves to be beaten, the judge will then make him lie down and be beaten in his presence. The number of lashes is according to his guilt. He must not beat him more than forty lashes. If he beats more than that your brother will be degraded in your eyes.
If a slave owner takes a stick and beats his slave, whether male or female, and the slave dies on the spot, the owner is to be punished.
Strike a scoffer and the simple will be wary. Reprove someone who has understanding, and he will discern knowledge.
What value is there when you sin, and are buffeted for it, you take it patiently? But if, when you do well and suffer for it, you take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.
I took up the cause against them, cursing them and giving blows to some of them and pulling out their hair. I made them take an oath by God, saying: You are not to give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
Reproof influences a wise man more than a hundred stripes does to a fool.
Penalties are prepared for mockers, and beatings for the back of fools.
The unfaithful servant who knew what his master wanted and did not do it will be beaten. He who did not know and did things unacceptable will receive a lesser punishment. To whom much is given, much will be required and to whom they commit much they will demand even more.
I will offer my back to those who whip me. I will offer my cheeks to those who pluck hairs out of my beard. I will not turn my face away from those who humiliate me and spit on me.
And others had trial of cruel mocking and scourging and bonds and imprisonment.
The bosses beat the men in charge of the slaves and said: Why did you not force the slaves to make as many bricks yesterday and today as they did before?
It is not good to punish the righteous. It is not good to strike princes because of their uprightness.
Pashhur had Jeremiah the prophet beaten and put him in the stocks that were at the upper Benjamin Gate, which was by the house of Jehovah.
The officials were so angry with Jeremiah that they beat him and put him in prison in the scribe Jonathan's house, which had been turned into a prison.
Wishing to please the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them. Then he handed over Jesus. He was flogged and impaled.
He set Barabbas free. He had Jesus whipped. Then he commanded that he be put to death on the stake.
But he was pierced for our transgressions! He was crushed for our iniquities! The punishment that brought us peace was upon him. There has been healing for us because of his wounds.
They will turn him over to the heathen to be made sport of and to be whipped. He will be put to death on the stake. The third day he will come back from the dead.
They will mock him, spit on him, and scourge him. Then they will kill him. After three days he will rise again.
He will be delivered up to the people of the nations, and will be mocked, and shamefully treated, and spit upon.
Beware of men! They will take you to court! They will have you beaten in their meeting places.
They agreed with him and called the apostles. They beat them and commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus. Then they let them go.
Look! I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will torture and kill. Others you will torment and persecute from city to city.
Be on guard for they will deliver you up to courts. You will be beaten in the meeting places. You will be taken before governors and kings for a testimony to them for my sake.
The crowd rose up against them. The magistrates ripped their garments off them, and commanded to beat them with rods. After they were severely beaten, they threw them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safe.
They all grabbed Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the court. Gallio did not care about this.
I answered, 'Lord they know very well that I went to the synagogues and arrested and beat those who believe in you.
in beatings, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watching, in fasting;
Of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, I suffered shipwreck three times, a night and a day I have spent in the deep.
I will be his father. He will be my son. When he does wrong I will correct him just as parents correct children.
You will be protected from the sharp tongue and you will not be afraid when destruction comes.
then with a rod I will punish their transgression and their crimes with beatings.
Jehovah of Hosts will stir up enemies against you as when he struck down Midian at the rock of Oreb. His wrath will come by way of the sea, as he did in Egypt.
O afflicted city, lashed by storms and not comforted, I will build you with stones of turquoise, your foundations with sapphires.