7 Bible Verses about Punishments

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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 adds to them, God shall add to him the plagues written in this book;

1 John 5:17

All wickedness is sin, and there is sin not to death.

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Punishments » Hanging

Punishments » Stoning » Examples of

Acts 14:19

But Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and having persuaded the multitudes, and having stoned Paul, they dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

Punishments » Stoning » Laws concerning

More verses: Deuteronomy 22:24

Punishments » Beating

Acts 21:32

who immediately taking soldiers and centurions ran down upon them; and seeing the chiliarch and the soldiers, they ceased beating Paul.

Mark 13:9

But take heed to yourselves; they shall deliver you up to Sanhedrims, and you shall be beaten in synagogues, and shall be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them.

Acts 16:22

And the multitude came together against them, and the prefects tearing off their clothes gave orders to beat them with rods,

Punishments » Stripes » Examples of stripes endured for righteousness sake

Acts 16:23

and having inflicted many blows on them cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely;

Punishments » Confiscation of property

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Restitution

Punishments » Were inflicted » By the witnesses

John 8:7

And when they continued asking him, rising up, he said to them, Let him that has not sinned among you first cast the stone at her.

Acts 7:58-59

and casting him out of the city, stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man called Saul, and they stoned Stephen, calling and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

Punishments » Burning

Punishments » Designed to be a warning to others

Punishments » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the chiliarch commanded him to be brought into the fortress, ordering that he should be examined with scourges, that he might know for what reason they cried so against him.

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Exposing to wild beasts

1 Corinthians 15:32

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Stoning

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Burning

Punishments » Hard labour

Punishments » Beheading

Revelation 20:4

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was given them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and the word of God, and who did not worship the beast nor his image and did not receive the mark on their forehead and on their right hand; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years;

Punishments » Stripes » Mutilations » Forty

Punishments » Were inflicted » Without pity

Punishments » Banishment

Acts 18:2

And finding a certain Jew by the name of Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy, and his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome, he went to them,

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Beheading

Mark 6:27

And the king immediately sending an executioner, commanded him to bring his head. And he went out and beheaded him in the prison,

Mark 6:16

But Herod hearing of him, said, This is John whom I beheaded; he has been raised up.

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Hanging

Punishments » Were inflicted » By order of kings

Punishments » Were inflicted » On the guilty

Punishments » Exposure to wild beasts

1 Corinthians 15:32

If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage is it to me? If the dead rise not, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Retaliation or injuring according to the injury done

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Fine, or giving of money

Punishments » Were inflicted » By soldiers

Matthew 27:27-35

THEN the soldiers of the procurator taking Jesus to the Praetorium assembled about him the whole cohort, and stripped him, and put on him a crimson cloak, and making a crown of thorns they put it on his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they knelt before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews! read more.
And they spit on him, and took the reed and beat him on his head. And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off from him, and put on him his own clothes, and led him away to crucify him. And going out, they found a Cyrenian by the name of Simon, whom they compelled to bear his cross. And coming to a place called Golgotha, which is called A place of a cranium, they gave him vinegar to drink mixed with gall; and when he had tasted of it he would not drink. And having crucified him, they parted his garments, casting lots,

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Confinement » Dungeon

Punishments » Were inflicted » Immediately after sentence was passed

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Torturing

Matthew 18:34

And his lord was displeased, and delivered him to the tormentors till he should pay all the debt.

Hebrews 11:37

they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Crucifying

Punishments » Sometimes deferred for a considerable time

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Plucking out the hair

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Putting out the eyes

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Confinement » Stocks

Acts 16:24

who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Banishment

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Slaying with the sword

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Cutting in pieces

Matthew 24:51

and will punish him with the utmost severity, and appoint his portion with hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of the teeth.

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Imprisonment

Punishments » Power of inflicting, given to magistrates

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Scourging

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Casting headlong from a rock

Punishments » Were inflicted » Without partiality

Punishments » Were inflicted » by the people

Punishments » For murder not to be commuted

Punishments » Were sometimes commuted

Punishments » Antiquity of

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Bruising in mortars

Punishments » Strangers not exempted from

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Cutting off hands and feet

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Cutting off nose and ears

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Selling the criminal, &c

Matthew 18:25

And he having nothing to pay, the lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Sawing asunder

Hebrews 11:37

they were stoned, they were cut to pieces with saws, they were tried, they died with the death of the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins and goat-skins, destitute, afflicted, injuriously treated,

Punishments » Sometimes deferred until God was consulted

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Binding with chains and fetters

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Mutilating the hands and feet

Punishments » Capital kinds of » Casting into the sea

Punishments » Were inflicted » By order of magistrates

Acts 16:22

And the multitude came together against them, and the prefects tearing off their clothes gave orders to beat them with rods,

Punishments » Inflicting of capital, not permitted to the jews by the romans

John 18:31

Then Pilate said to them, Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law. The Jews said to him, It is not lawful for us to put any one to death;

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Confiscating the property

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