8 Bible Verses about Strictness

but the servant, who knows his master's will, and prepares not himself, nor executes his orders, shall receive many stripes.

they can testify, if they will, that I early profess'd myself a Pharisee, a member of the most rigorous sect of our religion:

these things therefore I write to you being absent, that when I come I may not use severity, according to the power which the Lord hath given me for edification, and not for destruction.

fathers, don't treat your children with severity, lest they be discourag'd.

consider then the divine benignity, and his severity: his severity to those who fell, and his benignity to you, provided you adhere thereto; otherwise you likewise will be lopt off.

then came he who had received the one talent, and said, Lord, I knew that you were a hard man, reaping where you have not sown, and gathering where you have not scattered:

for I was in fear of you, knowing you to be a hard master, who exact what you never gave, and reap where you have never sown.

wicked slave, said he, from your own mouth will I convict thee. "you knew I was a hard master, exacting what I never gave, and reaping where I never sowed: