Quotes About Punishment

If anyone kills a person, the murderer is to be put to death on the testimony of the witnesses. But no one is to be put to death based on the testimony of a lone witness.

You are not to accept a ransom for the life of a murderer who deserves to die; he must surely be put to death.

You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.

Stone him to death for trying to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.

The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.

the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.

You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot.

Then all the men of his city will stone him to death. So you must purge the evil from among you, and all Israel will hear and be afraid.

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

Then the elders of that city shall take the man and punish him.

she shall be brought to the door of her fatherís house, and there the men of her city will stone her to death. For she has committed an outrage in Israel by being promiscuous in her fatherís house. So you must purge the evil from among you.

If a man is found lying with another manís wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.

you must take both of them out to the gate of that city and stone them to death—the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he has violated his neighborís wife. So you must purge the evil from among you.

But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.

If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.

If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.

He may receive no more than forty lashes, lest your brother be beaten any more than that and be degraded in your sight.

you are to cut off her hand. You must show her no pity.

ëCursed is he who lies with any animal.í And let all the people say, ëAmen!í

The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

The LORD will afflict you with painful, incurable boils on your knees and thighs, from the soles of your feet to the top of your head.

You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the LORD will drive you.