8 Bible Verses about Strictness

But that servant knowing the will of his lord, and not preparing or doing according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

knowing me originally, if they may be willing to testify, that according to the most rigid sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Therefore being absent I write these things, in order that being present, I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord has given me for edification, and not for destruction.

Ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, in order that they may not be discouraged.

Then behold the goodness and severity of God: upon those who fell indeed, severity; but upon you the goodness of God, if you may abide in his goodness: since you too may be cut off.

And the one having received one talent also coming, said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strewn:

for I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that which thou hadst not laid down, and thou reapest that which thou hast not sown.

And he says to him, Out of thine own mouth I will judge thee, thou wicked servant. Didst thou know that I am an austere man, taking up what I have not laid down, and reaping what I have not sown?