Deuteronomy 25:2

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Then, if the guilty person is sentenced to a beating, the judge shall force him to lie down and be beaten in his presence with the number of blows his wicked behavior deserves.

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 12:47-48 : 47 That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating. 48 But the one who did not know his master’s will and did things worthy of punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.
  • Acts 5:40 : 40 and they summoned the apostles and had them beaten. Then they ordered them not to speak in the name of Jesus and released them.
  • Acts 16:22-24 : 22 The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods. 23 After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely. 24 Receiving such orders, he threw them in the inner cell and fastened their feet in the stocks.
  • 1 Pet 2:20 : 20 For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.
  • 1 Pet 2:24 : 24 He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we may cease from sinning and live for righteousness. By his wounds you were healed.
  • Matt 10:17 : 17 Beware of people, because they will hand you over to councils and flog you in their synagogues.
  • Matt 27:26 : 26 Then he released Barabbas for them. But after he had Jesus flogged, he handed him over to be crucified.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 25:3
    85%

    3The judge may sentence him to forty blows, but no more. If he is struck with more than these, you might view your fellow Israelite with contempt.

  • Deut 25:1
    81%

    1If controversy arises between people, they should go to court for judgment. When the judges hear the case, they shall exonerate the innocent but condemn the guilty.

  • Exod 21:22-25
    4 verses
    78%

    22“If men fight and hit a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no serious injury, he will surely be punished in accordance with what the woman’s husband demands of him, and he will pay what the court decides.

    23But if there is serious injury, then you will give a life for a life,

    24eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

    25burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.

  • Exod 21:18-20
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    74%

    18“If men fight, and one strikes his neighbor with a stone or with his fist and he does not die, but must remain in bed,

    19and then if he gets up and walks about outside on his staff, then the one who struck him is innocent, except he must pay for the injured person’s loss of time and see to it that he is fully healed.

    20“If a man strikes his male servant or his female servant with a staff so that he or she dies as a result of the blow, he will surely be punished.

  • Lev 24:19-20
    2 verses
    73%

    19If a man inflicts an injury on his fellow citizen, just as he has done it must be done to him–

    20fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth– just as he inflicts an injury on another person that same injury must be inflicted on him.

  • Deut 22:18
    72%

    18The elders of that city must then seize the man and punish him.

  • Prov 19:29
    72%

    29Penalties have been prepared for scorners, and floggings for the backs of fools.

  • Deut 19:18-21
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    18The judges will thoroughly investigate the matter, and if the witness should prove to be false and to have given false testimony against the accused,

    19you must do to him what he had intended to do to the accused. In this way you will purge evil from among you.

    20The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

    21You must not show pity; the principle will be a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a hand for a hand, and a foot for a foot.

  • Prov 17:26
    70%

    26It is terrible to punish a righteous person, and to flog honorable men is wrong.

  • Exod 21:12
    70%

    12Personal Injuries“Whoever strikes someone so that he dies must surely be put to death.

  • 2 Cor 2:6
    70%

    6This punishment on such an individual by the majority is enough for him,

  • Exod 22:1-2
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    1Laws about Property(21:37)“If a man steals an ox or a sheep and kills it or sells it, he must pay back five head of cattle for the ox, and four sheep for the one sheep.

    2“If a thief is caught breaking in and is struck so that he dies, there will be no blood guilt for him.

  • Exod 22:8-9
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    8If the thief is not caught, then the owner of the house will be brought before the judges to see whether he has laid his hand on his neighbor’s goods.

    9In all cases of illegal possessions, whether for an ox, a donkey, a sheep, a garment, or any kind of lost item, about which someone says‘This belongs to me,’ the matter of the two of them will come before the judges, and the one whom the judges declare guilty must repay double to his neighbor.

  • Job 31:11
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    11For I would have committed a shameful act, an iniquity to be judged.

  • Prov 19:19
    70%

    19A person with great anger bears the penalty, but if you deliver him from it once, you will have to do it again.

  • Prov 23:13-14
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    69%

    13Do not withhold discipline from a child; even if you strike him with the rod, he will not die.

    14If you strike him with the rod, you will deliver him from death.

  • Ps 28:4
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    4Pay them back for their evil deeds! Pay them back for what they do! Punish them!

  • Isa 3:11
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    11Woe to the wicked sinners! For they will get exactly what they deserve.

  • Deut 17:5
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    5you must bring to your city gates that man or woman who has done this wicked thing– that very man or woman– and you must stone that person to death.

  • Prov 17:10
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    10A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.

  • Job 19:29
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    29Fear the sword yourselves, for wrath brings the punishment by the sword, so that you may know that there is judgment.”

  • Exod 21:30-31
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    30If a ransom is set for him, then he must pay the redemption for his life according to whatever amount was set for him.

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  • Deut 25:12
    69%

    12then you must cut off her hand– do not pity her.

  • Job 34:26
    69%

    26He strikes them for their wickedness, in a place where people can see,

  • Lev 19:20
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  • Prov 24:25
    69%

    25But there will be delight for those who convict the guilty, and a pleasing blessing will come on them.

  • 2 Cor 11:20
    69%

    20For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

  • Matt 5:39-40
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    69%

    39But I say to you, do not resist the evildoer. But whoever strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other to him as well.

    40And if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your coat also.

  • 2 Cor 11:24
    68%

    24Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one.

  • Ps 89:32
    68%

    32I will punish their rebellion by beating them with a club, their sin by inflicting them with bruises.

  • 1 Pet 2:20
    68%

    20For what credit is it if you sin and are mistreated and endure it? But if you do good and suffer and so endure, this finds favor with God.

  • Acts 16:22
    68%

    22The crowd joined the attack against them, and the magistrates tore the clothes off Paul and Silas and ordered them to be beaten with rods.

  • 1 Kgs 20:37
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    37He found another man and said,“Wound me!” So the man wounded him severely.

  • Deut 19:12
    68%

    12The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.

  • Luke 12:47
    68%

    47That servant who knew his master’s will but did not get ready or do what his master asked will receive a severe beating.

  • Matt 18:34
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    34And in anger his lord turned him over to the prison guards to torture him until he repaid all he owed.