9 Bible Verses about Scourging

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Job 5:21

You'll be protected from the accusing tongue; you need not fear destruction when it heads your way.

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

If the guilty person deserves a beating, the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes fit for his crime. But he must not be beaten more than 40 lashes, because if he receives more than 40 lashes, your brother will be humiliated in your eyes.

Acts 22:25

But when they had tied him up with the straps, Paul asked the centurion who was standing there, "Is it legal for you to whip a Roman citizen who hasn't been condemned?"

John 19:1-6

Then Pilate had Jesus taken away and whipped. The soldiers twisted some thorns into a victor's crown, put it on his head, and threw a purple robe on him. They kept coming up to him and saying, "Long live the king of the Jews!" Then they began to slap him on the face.read more.
Pilate went outside again and told the Jews, "Look, I am bringing him out to you to let you know that I find no basis for a charge against him." Then Jesus came outside, wearing the victor's crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate told them, "Here is the man!" When the high priests and the officials saw him, they shouted, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate told them, "You take him and crucify him. I find no basis for a charge against him."

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Punishment » Minor offenses » Punishable by » Scourging

Proverbs 20:30

Blows that wound clean away evil; such beatings cleanse the innermost being.

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

Acts 22:29

Paul said, "But I was born a citizen." Immediately those who were about to examine him stepped back, and the tribune was afraid when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had tied him up.

Punishments » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

Punishments » Secondary kinds of » Scourging

Deuteronomy 25:2-3

If the guilty person deserves a beating, the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes fit for his crime. But he must not be beaten more than 40 lashes, because if he receives more than 40 lashes, your brother will be humiliated in your eyes.

Scourging » Instances of » Of jesus

Matthew 20:19

Then they will hand him over to unbelievers to be mocked, whipped, and crucified, but on the third day he will be raised."

Scourging » Instances of » Of paul

Acts 21:32

Immediately the tribune took some soldiers and officers and ran down to the crowd. When the people saw the tribune and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

2 Corinthians 11:24-25

Five times I received from the Jews 40 lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with a stick, once I was pelted with stones, three times I was shipwrecked, and I drifted on the sea for a day and a night.

Scourging » Prescribed in the mosaic law for committing the sin of fornication

Leviticus 19:20

"When a person has sexual relations with a woman servant who is engaged to another man, but she has not been completely redeemed nor has her freedom been granted to her, there is to be an inquiry, but they won't be put to death, since she has not been freed.

Deuteronomy 22:18

The elders of that city will then take the man, punish him,

Scourging » Figurative » Of the oppressions of rulers

1 Kings 12:11

Not only that, but since my father loaded you down heavily, I'm going to add to that burden. My father disciplined you with whips, but I'm going to discipline you with scorpions!'"

Scourging » Instances of » Of sosthenes

Acts 18:17

Then all of them took Sosthenes, the synagogue leader, and began beating him in front of the judge's seat. But Gallio paid no attention to any of this.

Scourging » Instances of » Of paul and silas

Acts 16:23

After giving them a severe beating, they threw them in jail and ordered the jailer to keep them under tight security.

Scourging » Figurative » Of the evil tongue

Job 5:21

You'll be protected from the accusing tongue; you need not fear destruction when it heads your way.

Scourging » Foretold by jesus as a persecution of future Christians

Scourging » Of servants could be avenged

Exodus 21:20

"If a man strikes his male or female servant with a stick and he or she dies as a direct result, the master must be punished.

Scourging » Fatal

Job 9:23

If a calamity causes sudden death, he'll mock at the despair of the innocent.

Scourging » Prescribed for other offenses

Deuteronomy 25:2

If the guilty person deserves a beating, the judge will make him lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of lashes fit for his crime.

Scourging » 40 stripes

Deuteronomy 25:3

But he must not be beaten more than 40 lashes, because if he receives more than 40 lashes, your brother will be humiliated in your eyes.

The Nation » Punishment » Scourging

Acts 22:24

the tribune ordered Paul to be taken into the barracks and told the soldiers to beat and question him in order to find out why the people were yelling at him like this.

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