'Punishment' in the Bible

"At that time they will deliver you up to punishment and will put you to death; and you will be objects of hatred to all the nations because you are called by my name.

"And these shall go away into the Punishment of the Ages, but the righteous into the Life of the Ages."

"And if this," they added, "is reported to the Governor, we will satisfy him and screen you from punishment."

and who swallow up the property of widows and then mask their wickedness by making long prayers: these men will receive far heavier punishment."

Now at the Festival it was customary for Pilate to release to the Jews any one prisoner whom they might beg off from punishment;

I will therefore give him a light punishment and release him."

A third time he appealed to them: "Why, what crime has the man committed? I have discovered in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore give him a light punishment and release him."

But the other, answering, reproved him. "Do you also not fear God," he said, "when you are actually suffering the same punishment?

My reply was that it is not the custom among the Romans to give up any one for punishment before the accused has had his accusers face to face, and has had an opportunity of defending himself against the charge which has been brought against him.

But if our unrighteousness sets God's righteousness in a clearer light, what shall we say? (Is God unrighteous--I speak in our everyday language-- when He inflicts punishment?

For the Law inflicts punishment; but where no Law exists, there can be no violation of Law.

Therefore the man who rebels against his ruler is resisting God's will; and those who thus resist will bring punishment upon themselves.

For he is God's servant for your benefit. But if you do what is wrong, be afraid. He does not wear the sword to no purpose: he is God's servant--an administrator to inflict punishment upon evil-doers.

We must obey therefore, not only in order to escape punishment, but also for conscience' sake.

In the case of such a person the punishment which was inflicted by the majority of you is enough.

How much severer punishment, think you, will he be held to deserve who has trampled under foot the Son of God, has not regarded as holy that Covenant-blood with which he was set free from sin, and has insulted the Spirit from whom comes grace?

or to provincial Governors as sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and the encouragement of those who do what is right.

Since all this is so, the Lord knows how to rescue godly men from temptation, and on the other hand how to keep the unrighteous under punishment in readiness for the Day of Judgement,

So also Sodom and Gomorrah--and the neighboring towns in the same manner--having been guilty of gross fornication and having gone astray in pursuit of unnatural vice, are now before us as a specimen of the fire of the Ages in the punishment which they are undergoing.

while they stand afar off because of their terror at her heavy punishment, and say, 'Alas, alas, thou great city, O Babylon, the mighty city! For in one short hour thy doom has come!'

Those who traded in these things, who grew wealthy through her, will stand afar off, struck with terror at her punishment,