Deuteronomy 25:3

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The 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 18:3 : 3 Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?
  • Luke 15:30 : 30 But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
  • Luke 18:9-9 : 9 The Parable of the Pharisee and Tax Collector Jesus also told this parable to some who were confident that they were righteous and looked down on everyone else. 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed about himself like this:‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people: extortionists, unrighteous people, adulterers– or even like this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give a tenth of everything I get.’
  • 2 Cor 11:24-25 : 24 Five times I received from the Jews forty lashes less one. 25 Three times I was beaten with a rod. Once I received a stoning. Three times I suffered shipwreck. A night and a day I spent adrift in the open sea.
  • Jas 2:2-3 : 2 For if someone comes into your assembly wearing a gold ring and fine clothing, and a poor person enters in filthy clothes, 3 do you pay attention to the one who is finely dressed and say,“You sit here in a good place,” and to the poor person,“You stand over there,” or“Sit on the floor”?

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Deut 25:1-2
    2 verses
    85%

    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.

    2Then, 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.

  • Exod 21:24-26
    3 verses
    78%

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

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

    26“If a man strikes the eye of his male servant or his female servant so that he destroys it, he will let the servant go free as compensation for the eye.

  • Deut 25:4
    75%

    4You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.

  • 2 Cor 11:24
    75%

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

  • Exod 21:18-20
    3 verses
    72%

    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.

  • Luke 17:3
    71%

    3Watch yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him.

  • Lev 25:39
    71%

    39“‘If your brother becomes impoverished with regard to you so that he sells himself to you, you must not subject him to slave service.

  • Prov 17:10
    70%

    10A rebuke makes a greater impression on a discerning person than a hundred blows on a fool.

  • Matt 18:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15Restoring Christian Relationships“If your brother sins, go and show him his fault when the two of you are alone. If he listens to you, you have regained your brother.

    16But if he does not listen, take one or two others with you, so that at the testimony of two or three witnesses every matter may be established.

  • Prov 23:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Acts 22:25
    70%

    25When they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing nearby,“Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen without a proper trial?”

  • 2 Cor 11:20
    70%

    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.

  • 2 Thess 3:15
    70%

    15Yet do not regard him as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

  • Matt 5:38-41
    4 verses
    70%

    38Retaliation“You have heard that it was said,‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’

    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.

    41And if anyone forces you to go one mile, go with him two.

  • Lev 24:19-20
    2 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Luke 6:29
    69%

    29To the person who strikes you on the cheek, offer the other as well, and from the person who takes away your coat, do not withhold your tunic either.

  • Lev 19:20
    69%

    20Lying with a Slave Woman“‘When a man goes to bed with a woman for intercourse, although she is a slave woman designated for another man and she has not yet been ransomed, or freedom has not been granted to her, there will be an obligation to pay compensation. They must not be put to death, because she was not free.

  • Luke 12:47-48
    2 verses
    69%

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

    48But 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.

  • Lev 19:17
    69%

    17You must not hate your brother in your heart. You must surely reprove your fellow citizen so that you do not incur sin on account of him.

  • Deut 19:19-21
    3 verses
    69%

    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.

  • Lev 25:43
    69%

    43You must not rule over him harshly, but you must fear your God.

  • Prov 26:3
    69%

    3A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

  • 2 Cor 2:6-7
    2 verses
    69%

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

    7so that now instead you should rather forgive and comfort him. This will keep him from being overwhelmed by excessive grief to the point of despair.

  • Deut 22:18
    68%

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

  • Deut 22:1
    68%

    1Laws Concerning Preservation of Life When you see your neighbor’s ox or sheep going astray, do not ignore it; you must return it without fail to your neighbor.

  • Acts 16:22-23
    2 verses
    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.

    23After they had beaten them severely, they threw them into prison and commanded the jailer to guard them securely.

  • Deut 25:12
    68%

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

  • Exod 22:1
    68%

    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.

  • Prov 17:26
    68%

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

  • Matt 18:34
    68%

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

  • Lev 25:46
    67%

    46You may give them as inheritance to your children after you to possess as property. You may enslave them perpetually. However, as for your brothers the Israelites, no man may rule over his brother harshly.

  • Prov 3:11
    67%

    11My child, do not despise discipline from the LORD, and do not loathe his rebuke.

  • Heb 12:6
    67%

    6“For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son he accepts.”

  • Lev 25:35
    67%

    35Debt and Slave Regulations“‘If your brother becomes impoverished and is indebted to you, you must support him; he must live with you like a foreign resident.