36 Bible Verses about Flogging

And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile to thee.

And if a man shall smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he shall die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

Smite a scorner and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.

For what glory is it, if, when ye are buffeted for your faults, ye bear it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye bear it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

And I contended with them, and cursed them, and smote certain of them, and plucked off their hair, and made them swear by God, saying, Ye shall not give your daughters to their sons, nor take their daughters to your sons, or for yourselves.

A reproof entereth more into a wise man than a hundred stripes into a fool.

A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

Judgments are prepared for scorners, and stripes for the back of fools.

And that servant who knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and committed things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom men have committed much, from him they will ask the more.

I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair: I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, and, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's task-masters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Why have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick, both yesterday and to-day, as heretofore?

Also to punish the just is not good, nor to strike princes for equity.

Then Pashur struck Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house of the LORD.

Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and beat him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

And so Pilate, willing to content the people, released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Jesus, delivered him to be crucified.

Then he released Barabbas to them: and when he had scourged Jesus, he delivered him to be crucified.

Then Pilate therefore took Jesus, and scourged him.

But he was wounded for our transgression, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

And will deliver him to the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify him: and the third day he will rise again.

And they will mock him, and will scourge him, and will spit upon him, and will kill him: and the third day he will rise again.

For he will be delivered to the Gentiles, and will be mocked, and spitefully treated, and spitted on;

But beware of men: for they will deliver you to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues.

And to him they assented: and when they had called the apostles, and beaten them, they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

Wherefore behold, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes; and some of them ye will kill and crucify, and some of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:

But take heed to yourselves: for they will deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye will be beaten: and ye will be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them.

And the multitude rose together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safely.

Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.

And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned, and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee:

In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

From the Jews five times I received forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;

I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he shall commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men:

Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.

Then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

And the LORD of hosts will raise up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Oreb: and as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt.

Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.