9 Bible Verses about Scourging

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Job 5:21

You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this.

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense. Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

Acts 22:25

But when they had stretched him out for the whips, Paul said to the centurion who was standing by, "Is it lawful for you to flog a man who is a Roman citizen and uncondemned?"

John 19:1-6

Then Pilate took Jesus and flogged him. And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe. They came up to him, saying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" and struck him with their hands.read more.
Pilate went out again and said to them, "See, I am bringing him out to you that you may know that I find no guilt in him." So Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, "Behold the man!" When the chief priests and the officers saw him, they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Take him yourselves and crucify him, for I find no guilt in him."

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Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging

Proverbs 20:30

Blows that wound cleanse away evil; strokes make clean the innermost parts.

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this.

Acts 22:29

So those who were about to examine him withdrew from him immediately, and the tribune also was afraid, for he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had bound him.

Punishments » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this.

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Scourging

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense. Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

Scourging » Instances of » Of jesus

Matthew 20:19

and deliver him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified, and he will be raised on the third day."

Scourging » Instances of » Of paul

Acts 21:32

He at once took soldiers and centurions and ran down to them. And when they saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this.

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

Five times I received at the hands of the Jews the forty lashes less one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I was stoned. Three times I was shipwrecked; a night and a day I was adrift at sea;

Scourging » Prescribed in the mosaic law for committing the sin of fornication

Leviticus 19:20

"If a man lies sexually with a woman who is a slave, assigned to another man and not yet ransomed or given her freedom, a distinction shall be made. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free;

Deuteronomy 22:18

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,

Scourging » Figurative » Of the oppressions of rulers

1 Kings 12:11

And now, whereas my father laid on you a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.'"

Scourging » Instances of » Of sosthenes

Acts 18:17

And they all seized Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the tribunal. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.

Scourging » Instances of » Of paul and silas

Acts 16:23

And when they had inflicted many blows upon them, they threw them into prison, ordering the jailer to keep them safely.

Scourging » Figurative » Of the evil tongue

Job 5:21

You shall be hidden from the lash of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes.

Scourging » Foretold by jesus as a persecution of future Christians

Scourging » Of servants could be avenged

Exodus 21:20

"When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod and the slave dies under his hand, he shall be avenged.

Scourging » Fatal

Job 9:23

When disaster brings sudden death, he mocks at the calamity of the innocent.

Scourging » Prescribed for other offenses

Deuteronomy 25:2

then if the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall cause him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with a number of stripes in proportion to his offense.

Scourging » 40 stripes

Deuteronomy 25:3

Forty stripes may be given him, but not more, lest, if one should go on to beat him with more stripes than these, your brother be degraded in your sight.

The Nation » Punishment » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this.

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