8 Bible Verses about Punishments

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

And now a party of Jews came down form Antioch and Iconium, and after persuading the crowds, they stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, supposing him to be dead.

So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

At once he took soldiers and centurions, and rushed down upon them. When they saw the tribune and the troops, they left off beating Paul.

"You yourselves must be on your guard. They will hand you over to the courts, and you will be flogged on the synagogues; and you will stand before rulers and kings for my sake, to witness to them for me.

They gave in to him; and called the apostles in, and after flogging them, released them, with instructions not to speak about the name of Jesus.

The crowd, too, rose up together against them, and the praetors, after having them stripped, and after ordering them to be flogged,

by floggings, by imprisonment; in riots, in labors, in sleepless watching, in hunger and thirst;

had many lashes inflicted upon them, and put them in prison, with a charge to the jailer to keep them safe.

He bore our sins in his own body upon the tree, in order that we might become dead to sins, and be alive unto righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.

But Jesus stooped down, and began to write on the ground with his finger. When they continued to question him, he raised himself and said to them, "Let the innocent man among you be the first to throw the stone at her."

dragged him outside the city, and stoned him, the witnesses throwing off their outer garments at the feet of a young man named Saul. So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

So Pilate, who wished to make himself strong with the crowd, released Barabbas to them, and gave Jesus over for crucifixion, after he had scourged him.

the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, and examined under the lash, to learn for what reason the people were thus crying out against him.

Then he released Barabbas to them, but Jesus he scourged, and delivered to be crucified.

After that Pilate took Jesus and had him scourged;

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

So they stoned Stephen while he prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."

And I saw thrones, and those who sat on them, and they were permitted to judge; and I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the Word of God, those who did not worship the beast nor his image, and who did not receive his brand upon their brow, or hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

He sent and beheaded John in prison;

and beheaded James, the brother of John, with the sword.

Five times at the hands of the Jews, I have received one short of forty lashes.

Here he found a certain Jew named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife, Priscilla, because Claudius had ordered all Jews to leave Rome.

So he sent at once a soldier of the guard with orders to bring his head.

But when Herod heard, he said, "That John whom I beheaded has come back to life."

If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what good does it do me? If the dead do not rise, Let us eat and drink, For we shall be dead tomorrow.

Then the soldiers of the Governor took Jesus into the Praetorium, and gathered all the battalion together. They stripped him and put on him a scarlet robe. And they twisted a thorny crown for him, and put it on his head, and placed a reed in his right hand. Then they knelt before him, in mockery, crying, "Hail, King of the Jews!" read more.
And they spit upon him, and took the reed and struck him on the head, again and again. At last, when they had finished their mocking, they took the robe off, and put his own garments on him, and led him away to crucify him. And as they went out they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, whom they compelled to go with them to carry his cross. And when they came to a place called Golgotha (the word means "Place of a Skull"), they gave Jesus wine to drink, mingled with gall. But after tasting it he refused to drink it. After crucifying him, they parted his garments among them by casting lots.

"Then in hot anger his master handed him over to the torturers, until he should pay him all his debt.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented??38 of whom the world was not worthy??andering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

"and hand him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and scourged and crucified; and on the third day he will rise from the grave."

After crucifying him, they parted his garments among them by casting lots.

On receiving so strict an order he cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

I, John, who am your brother and who share with you in the woes and kingdom and stedfastness of Jesus, found myself in the island called Patmos, for the sake of the word of God and the testimony of Jesus.

and beheaded James, the brother of John, with the sword.

and will scourge him severely, and allot him a place among hypocrites, where will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

"Come to terms with your opponent quickly, while you are yet with him on the way [to the court], to prevent your opponent from handing you over to the judge, and the judge to the jailer, and so you be thrown into prison.

For the ruler is God's minister appointed for your good. But if you are a wrong-doer, be afraid; he does not carry the sword to no purpose; he is God's servant, appointed to vengeance upon the guilty.

"And since he was unable to pay, his master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, toward the payment of the debt.

They were stoned, they were sawn asunder, they were tempted, they were slain with the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, persecuted, tormented??38 of whom the world was not worthy??andering in deserts and mountains and caves and holes in the ground.

"But whoever shall cause one of these little ones who believe in me to stumble, it would be better for him if a great millstone were hung about his neck, and he were drowned in the depths of the sea.

The crowd, too, rose up together against them, and the praetors, after having them stripped, and after ordering them to be flogged,

"Take him yourselves," answered Pilate, "and judge him according to your law."