6 Bible Verses about Judicial Punishment

or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the encouragement of well-doers.

For the ruler is God's minister appointed for your good. But if you are a wrong-doer, be afraid; he does not carry the sword to no purpose; he is God's servant, appointed to vengeance upon the guilty.

"Then in hot anger his master handed him over to the torturers, until he should pay him all his debt.

I will therefore, after flogging him, release him."

For the third time he appealed to them. "But what crime has he committed? I have found in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore flog him, and let him go."

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