35 Bible Verses about Punishment

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Revelation 22:18

I testify to every one that hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if any one add to these things, God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book.

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Banishment » Punishment

Acts 18:2

and finding a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had lately come from Italy, with Priscilla his wife, because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome, he went to them;

Eternal » Punishment » Future

Everlasting » Conditions of receiving » Punishment

Prisons » Punishment » Confinement

Punishment » Future punishment

Punishment » Capital Punishment » For capital offences

Punishment » According to deeds

Matthew 23:14

Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you close the kingdom of heaven in the face of men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you suffer those who are entering, to go in.

Punishment » Capital Punishment » Delayed

1 Peter 3:20

who formerly were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were brought in safety through the water;

Punishment » Capital Punishment » Examples of the infliction of

Punishment » Eternal

Matthew 3:12

whose winnowing-shovel is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his thrashing-floor, and gather his grain into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Punishment » Of the wicked

Luke 12:47

And that servant who knew his lord's will, but made no preparation, nor did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the officer commanded him to be led into the fortress, and gave orders that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so cried out against him.

Acts 22:29

Then, those who were about to examine him, immediately departed from him. And the officer was afraid, when he learned that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

Punishment » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Compares the suffering of, to fire

Mark 9:43

And if your hand ensnare you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter maimed into life, than having two hands to go away into hell, into the fire that is not quenched,

Matthew 13:41-42

The Son of man will send forth his angels, and collect out of his kingdom all things that offend, and those who work iniquity, and cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Mark 9:45

And if your foot en snare you, cut it off: it is better for you to enter into life lame, than having two feet to Be thrown into hell, into the fire that is not quenched,

Punishment » Death penalty » Modes of execution » Stoning

Punishment » Design of » To secure obedience

Punishment » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other allusions to

Matthew 3:12

whose winnowing-shovel is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his thrashing-floor, and gather his grain into his granary; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.

Acts 1:25

that he may be appointed to this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.

More verses: 1 Thessalonians 5:3

Punishment » Capital Punishment » Of children

Punishment » Death penalty » Modes of execution » Burning

More verses: Daniel 3:19-23

Punishment » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Other references of Christ to

John 5:28-29

Be not astonished at this; for the hour is coming in which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

Matthew 24:51

and will cut him in two, and appoint him his part with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Punishment » Future state of the wicked words of Christ concerning » Described as banishment from God

Punishment » Delayed

Punishment » Entailed » Upon children

Punishment » Death penalty » Modes of execution » Sword

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » For murder

Punishment » Death penalty » Modes of execution » Crucifixion

Luke 23:33

And when they came to the place called Skull, they there crucified him and the evil-doers; one on the right, and the other on the left.

Mark 15:24

And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothes among themselves, casting lots for them, what each one should take.

Punishment » Death penalty » Modes of execution » Hanging

Punishment » Death penalty » Not done » Less than » Two witnesses

Punishment » The lord punishing the world

Punishment » Death penalty » Modes of execution » Beheading

Mark 6:16

But when Herod heard of him, he said: John, whom I beheaded, has risen from the dead.

Mark 6:27-28

And the king immediately sent one of his guards, and commanded his head to be brought. And he went and beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish, and gave it to the maiden; and the maiden gave it to her mother.

Punishment » Death penalty » Modes of execution » Executed » By witness

Acts 7:58

and drove him out of the city, and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul.

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Bestiality

Punishment » Death penalty » Modes of execution » Executed » By congregatoin

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Death penalty » Cursing » Parents

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Desecrating » Sabbath day

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Adultery

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Treason

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Kidnapping

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Blasphemy

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Sodomy

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Incest

Punishment » Minor offenses » Confinement » Within limits

Punishment » Punishing the just

Punishment » The time when a scorner is punished

Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Imprisonment

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Disobedience » Partents

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Sexual immorality

Punishment » According to deeds » See the parable of the farmers

Matthew 21:33-41

Hear another parable: There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard, and put a hedge around it, and rigged in it a wine-press, and built a tower, and let it out to vine-dressers, and went into another country. And when the time of the fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the vine-dressers to receive the fruits of it. And the vine-dressers took his servants, and scourged one, and killed another, and stoned another. read more.
Again he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them in like manner. But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, They will reverence my son. But the vine-dressers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and seize upon the inheritance. And they took him, and carried him out of the vineyard, and killed him. Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine dressers? They said to him: He will miserably destroy those wicked men, and let out his vineyard to other vine dressers, who will give him the fruits in their season.

Punishment » According to deeds » See the parable of the talents

Matthew 25:14-30

For as a man, on leaving his country, called his own servants, and delivered to them his goods: To one he gave five talents; to another, two; and to another, one; to each one, according to his own ability, and immediately left his country. Then he that had received the five talents, went and traded with them, and made other five talents. read more.
In like manner also, he that had received the two, gained other two. But he that had received the one, went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money. After a long time, the lord of those servants came and settled with them. And he that had received the five talents came and brought other five talents, and said: Lord, you delivered to me five talents: see, I have gained other five talents in addition to them. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many. Enter into the joy of your lord. And he also that had received the two talents came, and said: Lord, you delivered to me two talents; see, I have gained other two talents in addition to them. His lord said to him: Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things, I will make you ruler over many. Enter into the joy of your lord. But he that had received the one talent came, and said: Lord, I knew you, that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter. And I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the earth; see, you have yours. His lord answered and said to him: Wicked and slothful servant; did you know that I reap where I did not sow, and gather where I did not scatter? Therefore, you ought to have put my money with the bankers; and, when I came, I could have received my own with interest. Therefore, take from him the talent, and give it to him that has the ten talents. For to every one that has, it shall be given, and he shall have abundance. But from him that has not, even that which he has shall be taken away. And cast the unprofitable servant into the darkness without. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Punishment » Hell

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Sedition

Acts 5:36-37

For before these days Theudas arose, declaring himself to be some great one; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves; and he was slain; and all, as many as believed him, were scattered and brought to naught. After this man, Judas the Galilean arose, in the days of the enrollment, and drew over many people after him; and he was destroyed, and all, as many as believed him, were scattered.

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Death penalty » False prophecy

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Offering » Huma sacrifice

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Stealing

Punishment » According to deeds » See the parable of the vineyard

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Death penalty » Refusing » Court

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Death penalty » Rape

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Witchcraft

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Sacrificing » False gods

Punishment » Death penalty » Not done

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Death penalty » Promiscuity

Punishment » Death penalty » Mosaic law » Perjury

the future » Punishment » Future state of the wicked » Hell » Greek, gehenna), the place of punishment

Matthew 5:29

If, then, your right eye ensnare you, tear it out, and throw it from you; for it is profitable for you that one of your members should perish, and not that your whole body should be thrown into hell.

James 3:6

And the tongue is a fire, the world of iniquity. So is the tongue placed among our members, defiling the whole body, setting on fire the course of life, and being set on fire by hell.

The Nation » Punishment » Hanging

The Nation » Punishment » Beating

Acts 21:32

And he immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down to them. When they saw the officer and the soldiers, they ceased beating Paul.

Mark 13:9

These are the beginning of sorrows. But take heed to yourselves; for they will deliver you up to councils, and you will be scourged in the synagogues; and you will stand before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

Acts 5:40

And they were persuaded by him; and when they had called the apostles in and scourged them, they commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Acts 16:22

And the multitude rose up together against them; and the magistrates stripped off their clothes, and gave command to beat them with rods.

The Nation » Punishment » Confiscation of property

The Nation » Punishment » Burning

The Nation » Punishment » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the officer commanded him to be led into the fortress, and gave orders that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so cried out against him.

The Nation » Punishment » Hard labour

The Nation » Punishment » Beheading

Revelation 20:4

And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and the power of judging was given to them; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God; and of those who had not worshiped the beast, nor his image, and had not received his mark on their forehead, nor on their hand: and they lived and reigned with Christ a thou sand years.

The Nation » Punishment » Banishment

Acts 18:2

and finding a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, who had lately come from Italy, with Priscilla his wife, because Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome, he went to them;

The Nation » Punishment » Exposure to wild beasts

1 Corinthians 15:32

If, to speak as a man, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Topics on Punishment

Apostates, Punishment

2 Thessalonians 2:11-12

And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, in order that they may believe a lie,

Death As Punishment

John 19:7

The Jews answered: We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.

Degrees Of Punishment In Hell

Revelation 20:12-13

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before the throne; and the books were opened; and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things that were written in the books, according to their works.

Punishment, According To Deeds

Revelation 20:11-15

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and no place was found for them.

Punishment, By God

Hebrews 12:5-7

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as to sons: My son, despise not the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when you are reproved by him.

Punishment, Delayed

1 Peter 3:20

who formerly were disobedient, when the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while an ark was preparing, in which few, that is, eight souls, were brought in safety through the water;

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