8 Bible Verses about Punishments

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us -- for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree" --

But some Jews came from Antioch and Iconium, and won the crowds by persuasion, and they stoned Paul, and dragged him outside the town, supposing he was dead.

They continued stoning Stephen as he continued praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

So he at once got together some soldiers and captains and hurried down against them, but as soon as they saw the colonel and his soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

So you must be on the lookout for yourselves; they will turn you over to courts, and to synagogues where you will be beaten, and you must appear before governors and kings for my sake, to testify to them.

They were convinced by him, and after calling the apostles in and having them flogged, they charged them to stop speaking on the authority of Jesus, and then turned them loose.

The crowd also joined in the attack upon them, and the chiefs of the police court had them stripped and flogged.

in floggings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, and hunger;

After flogging them severely, they put them into jail, and gave the jailer orders to keep close watch on them.

He bore our sins in His own body on the cross, that we might die to sin and live to uprightness. By His wounds you have been healed,

Five times I have taken thirty-nine lashes from the Jews,

When the questioners persisted, Jesus straightened up and said to them, "Let the one of you who is sinless be the first one to cast a stone at her."

and dragged him out of the city and continued stoning him. The witnesses, in the meantime, laid their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. They continued stoning Stephen as he continued praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

So, as Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, he set Barabbas free for them, but after having Jesus flogged, he turned Him over to be crucified.

the colonel ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks, and told them to examine him by flogging, in order that he might find out why they were crying out against him in such a way.

Then he set Barabbas free for them, but had Jesus flogged and turned over to be crucified.

So then Pilate took Jesus and had Him flogged.

If from merely human motives I have fought wild beasts here in Ephesus, what profit will it be to me? If the dead are never raised at all, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead."

They continued stoning Stephen as he continued praying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit!"

Then I saw thrones and those who were seated on them, and permission was granted them to pass judgment, even those who had been beheaded for bearing testimony to Jesus and for preaching the word of God, who refused to worship the wild beast and his statue, and would not let his mark be stamped upon their foreheads and upon their hands. They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

And he sent and had John beheaded in prison.

He had James the brother of John murdered with a sword,

Five times I have taken thirty-nine lashes from the Jews,

There he found a Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla, because Claudius had issued an edict for all Jews to leave Rome. So Paul paid them a visit,

and so at once ordered a soldier of his guard to bring his head. The soldier went off and beheaded John in the prison

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

If from merely human motives I have fought wild beasts here in Ephesus, what profit will it be to me? If the dead are never raised at all, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall be dead."

Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the barracks, and gathered about Him the whole battalion. Then they stripped Him, and put a purple cloak on Him, and made a crown of thorns and set it on His head, and they put a stick in His hand, and kneeling before Him they made sport of Him, saying, "All hail, you king of the Jews!" read more.
And they spit on Him, and took the stick and kept hitting Him on the head. And when they had finished making sport of Him, they took off the cloak, and put His own clothes back on Him, and led Him away to be crucified. As they were going out of the city, they found a Cyrenian named Simon, and they forced him to carry Jesus' cross. When they came to a place called Golgotha, which means the Place of the Skull, they gave Him some wine mixed with gall, but when He tasted it, He would not drink it. Then they crucified Him and divided among them His clothes by drawing lots,

And the master was enraged and turned him over to the official torturers, until he should pay the whole debt.

They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. With nothing on their bodies but skins of sheep or goats they wandered here and there, destitute, oppressed, mistreated --

and turn Him over to the heathen to mock and flog and crucify, but on the third day He will rise again."

Then they crucified Him and divided among them His clothes by drawing lots,

Because he had such strict orders, he put them into the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.

I, John, your brother and companion with you in the trouble, the kingdom, and the patient endurance which Jesus gives, found myself on the island called Patmos, for preaching God's message and testifying to Jesus.

He had James the brother of John murdered with a sword,

and will cut him in two, and give him his share with the hypocrites, where they will weep and grind their teeth."

Be quick to come to terms with your opponent while you are on the road to court with him, so that he may not turn you over to the judge and the judge turn you over to the officer, and you be put in prison.

For the civil authorities are God's servants to do you good. But if you practice doing wrong, you should dread them, for they do not wield the sword for nothing. Indeed, they are God's servants to inflict punishment upon people who do wrong.

And because he could not pay it, his master ordered him to be sold, yea, even his wife and children and all he had, and payment to be made.

They were stoned to death, they were tortured to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed with the sword. With nothing on their bodies but skins of sheep or goats they wandered here and there, destitute, oppressed, mistreated --

But whoever leads one of these little ones, who believe in me, to do wrong, had better have a great millstone hung around his neck to sink him to the bottom of the sea.

The crowd also joined in the attack upon them, and the chiefs of the police court had them stripped and flogged.

Pilate said to them, "Take Him yourselves, and try Him in accordance with your own law." Then the Jews said to him, "It is not lawful for us to execute the death penalty on anyone."