'Branded' in the Bible
Otherwise, as soon as your majesty is laid to rest with his ancestors, my son Solomon and I will be branded as traitors."
God has selected [for His purpose] the insignificant (base) things of the world, and the things that are despised and treated with contempt, [even] the things that are nothing, so that He might reduce to nothing the things that are,
amid glory and dishonor; by evil report and good report; branded as deceivers and yet [vindicated as] truthful;
Henceforth, let no man trouble me; for I bear branded on my body the marks of Jesus.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God [but seek to please Him], by whom you were sealed and marked [branded as God’s own] for the day of redemption [the final deliverance from the consequences of sin].
through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;