6 Bible Verses about Judicial Punishment

and to governors as the men sent by him to punish evil-doers and to commend those who do right.

For they are God's servants appointed for your good. But, if you do what is wrong, you may well be afraid; for the sword they carry is not without meaning! They are God's servants to inflict his punishments on those who do wrong.

Then his master, in anger, handed him over to the jailers, until he should pay the whole of his debt.

So I shall have him scourged, and then release him."

"Why, what harm has this man done?" Pilate said to them for the third time. "I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him."

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