16 Bible Verses about Judicial Punishment

or to governors as those sent out by him for the punishment of those who do evil and the praise of those who do good.

for it is God's servant to you for what [is] good. But if you do what [is] bad, be afraid, because it does not bear the sword to no purpose. For it is God's servant, the one who avenges for punishment on the one who does [what is] bad.

With the punishment of a scoffer, the simple will become wise, and with the instruction of the wise, he will obtain knowledge.

The sentence [is] by [the] decree of [the] watchers, and the decision [by] [the] command of [the] holy [ones], {in order that} the living will know that the Most High [is] sovereign over [the] kingdom of humankind, and {to whomever} he wills he gives it, and he [even] sets [the] humblest of men over it."

And [because he] was angry, his master handed him over to the merciless jailers until he would repay everything that was owed.

Therefore I will punish him [and] release [him]."

So he said to them a third [time], "Why? What wrong has this man done? I found no basis for an accusation {deserving death} in him. Therefore I will punish him [and] release [him]."

And if a man strikes his male slave or his female slave with the rod and he dies under his hand, he will surely be avenged.

You will stay far from a {false charge}, and do not kill [the] innocent and [the] righteous, because I will not declare [the] wicked righteous.

Then the elders of that city shall take the man, and they shall discipline him.

" 'And if men fight and they injure a pregnant woman, and her children go out and there is not serious injury, he will surely be fined as the woman's husband demands concerning him {and as the judges determine}.

Anyone devoted who is devoted from {human beings} cannot be ransomed--he shall surely be put to death.

All who do not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be executed on him with diligence, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of goods and for imprisonment."

And when a man {causes} a physical defect in his fellow citizen {according to} what he has done, so it shall be done to him: fracture in place of fracture, eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth--{according to} [the] physical defect he {causes} to the person, likewise it shall be {caused} to him.

{You must show no pity}: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."

"You have heard that it was said, 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.'