Topic
PUNISHMENT
DEATH PENALTY
Passages on this topic · 271
- Genesis 2:17
but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”
- Genesis 9:5
I will surely require your blood of your lives; at the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of man, even at the hand of every man’s brother, I will require the life of man.
- Genesis 9:6
Whoever sheds man’s blood, his blood will be shed by man, for God made man in his own image.
- Genesis 38:24
About three months later, Judah was told, “Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute. Moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution.” Judah said, “Bring her out, and let her be burned.”
- Genesis 39:20
Joseph’s master took him, and put him into the prison, the place where the king’s prisoners were bound, and he was there in custody.
- Genesis 40:22
but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
- Exodus 20:3
“You shall have no other gods before me.
- Exodus 20:4
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
- Exodus 20:5
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
- Exodus 21:15
“Anyone who attacks his father or his mother shall be surely put to death.
- Exodus 21:16
“Anyone who kidnaps someone and sells him, or if he is found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 21:17
“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 22:18
“You shall not allow a sorceress to live.
- Exodus 22:19
“Whoever has sex with an animal shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 22:20
“He who sacrifices to any god, except to Yahweh only, shall be utterly destroyed.
- Exodus 32:27
He said to them, “Yahweh says, the God of Israel, ‘Every man put his sword on his thigh, and go back and forth from gate to gate throughout the camp, and every man kill his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbor.’”
- Exodus 32:28
The sons of Levi did according to the word of Moses: and there fell of the people that day about three thousand men.
- Exodus 34:7
keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children’s children, on the third and on the fourth generation.”
- Exodus 35:2
‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
- Leviticus 18:22
“‘You shall not lie with a man, as with a woman. That is detestable.
- Leviticus 19:20
“‘If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.
- Leviticus 20:2
“Moreover, you shall tell the children of Israel, ‘Anyone of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who live as foreigners in Israel, who gives any of his offspring to Molech; he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.
- Leviticus 20:3
I also will set my face against that person, and will cut him off from among his people because he has given of his offspring to Molech, to defile my sanctuary, and to profane my holy name.
- Leviticus 20:4
If the people of the land all hide their eyes from that person, when he gives of his offspring to Molech, and don’t put him to death;
- Leviticus 20:5
then I will set my face against that man, and against his family, and will cut him off, and all who play the prostitute after him, to play the prostitute with Molech, from among their people.
- Leviticus 20:9
“‘For everyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he has cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.
- Leviticus 20:10
“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
- Leviticus 20:11
“‘The man who lies with his father’s wife has uncovered his father’s nakedness: both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:12
“‘If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, both of them shall surely be put to death: they have committed a perversion; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:13
“‘If a man lies with a male, as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:14
“‘If a man takes a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burned with fire, both he and they; that there may be no wickedness among you.
- Leviticus 20:15
“‘If a man lies with an animal, he shall surely be put to death; and you shall kill the animal.
- Leviticus 20:16
“‘If a woman approaches any animal, and lies down with it, you shall kill the woman and the animal. They shall surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them.
- Leviticus 20:27
“‘A man or a woman that is a medium, or is a wizard, shall surely be put to death: they shall stone them with stones. Their blood shall be upon them.’”
- Leviticus 21:9
“‘The daughter of any priest, if she profanes herself by playing the prostitute, she profanes her father. She shall be burned with fire.
- Leviticus 24:11
The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother’s name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
- Leviticus 24:12
They put him in custody, until Yahweh’s will should be declared to them.
- Leviticus 24:13
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Leviticus 24:14
“Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.
- Leviticus 24:16
He who blasphemes Yahweh’s name, he shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall certainly stone him. The foreigner as well as the native-born, when he blasphemes the Name, shall be put to death.
- Leviticus 24:23
Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought out him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 26:14
“‘But if you will not listen to me, and will not do all these commandments;
- Leviticus 26:15
and if you shall reject my statutes, and if your soul abhors my ordinances, so that you will not do all my commandments, but break my covenant;
- Leviticus 26:16
I also will do this to you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will eat it.
- Leviticus 26:17
I will set my face against you, and you will be struck before your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you; and you will flee when no one pursues you.
- Leviticus 26:18
“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:19
I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass.
- Leviticus 26:20
Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.
- Leviticus 26:21
“‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.
- Leviticus 26:22
I will send the wild animals among you, which will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number. Your roads will become desolate.
- Leviticus 26:23
“‘If by these things you won’t be reformed to me, but will walk contrary to me;
- Leviticus 26:24
then I will also walk contrary to you; and I will strike you, even I, seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:25
I will bring a sword upon you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be gathered together within your cities, and I will send the pestilence among you. You will be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
- Leviticus 26:26
When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.
- Leviticus 26:27
“‘If you in spite of this won’t listen to me, but walk contrary to me;
- Leviticus 26:28
then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:29
You will eat the flesh of your sons, and you will eat the flesh of your daughters.
- Leviticus 26:30
I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
- Leviticus 26:31
I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation. I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
- Leviticus 26:32
I will bring the land into desolation; and your enemies that dwell therein will be astonished at it.
- Leviticus 26:33
I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you. Your land will be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.
- Leviticus 26:34
Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.
- Leviticus 26:35
As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.
- Leviticus 26:36
“‘As for those of you who are left, I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will put them to flight; and they shall flee, as one flees from the sword. They will fall when no one pursues.
- Leviticus 26:37
They will stumble over one another, as it were before the sword, when no one pursues. You will have no power to stand before your enemies.
- Leviticus 26:38
You will perish among the nations. The land of your enemies will eat you up.
- Leviticus 26:39
Those of you who are left will pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers they shall pine away with them.
- Numbers 14:10
But all the congregation threatened to stone them with stones. Yahweh’s glory appeared in the Tent of Meeting to all the children of Israel.
- Numbers 15:32
While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
- Numbers 15:33
Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.
- Numbers 15:34
They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.
- Numbers 15:35
Yahweh said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”
- Numbers 15:36
All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Numbers 35:16
“‘But if he struck him with an instrument of iron, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:17
If he struck him with a stone in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:18
Or if he struck him with a weapon of wood in the hand, by which a man may die, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:19
The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death. When he meets him, he shall put him to death.
- Numbers 35:20
If he shoved him out of hatred, or hurled at him, lying in wait, so that he died,
- Numbers 35:21
or in hostility struck him with his hand, so that he died, he who struck him shall surely be put to death. He is a murderer. The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death, when he meets him.
- Numbers 35:30
“‘Whoever kills any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses; but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.
- Numbers 35:31
“‘Moreover you shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer who is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.
- Numbers 35:32
“‘You shall take no ransom for him who is fled to his city of refuge, that he may come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.
- Numbers 35:33
“‘So you shall not pollute the land in which you are; for blood pollutes the land. No atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, but by the blood of him who shed it.
- Deuteronomy 13:1
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,
- Deuteronomy 13:2
and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let us serve them”;
- Deuteronomy 13:3
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
- Deuteronomy 13:4
You shall walk after Yahweh your God, fear him, keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.
- Deuteronomy 13:5
That prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he has spoken rebellion against Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to draw you aside out of the way which Yahweh your God commanded you to walk in. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 13:6
If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 13:7
of the gods of the peoples who are around you, near to you, or far off from you, from the one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth;
- Deuteronomy 13:8
you shall not consent to him, nor listen to him; neither shall your eye pity him, neither shall you spare, neither shall you conceal him;
- Deuteronomy 13:9
but you shall surely kill him. Your hand shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterwards the hands of all the people.
- Deuteronomy 13:10
You shall stone him to death with stones, because he has sought to draw you away from Yahweh your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
- Deuteronomy 13:11
All Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall not do any more wickedness like this among you.
- Deuteronomy 17:5
then you shall bring out that man or that woman, who has done this evil thing, to your gates, even that same man or woman; and you shall stone them to death with stones.
- Deuteronomy 17:6
At the mouth of two witnesses, or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death. At the mouth of one witness he shall not be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 17:7
The hand of the witnesses shall be first on him to put him to death, and afterward the hand of all the people. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 17:12
The man who does presumptuously, in not listening to the priest who stands to minister there before Yahweh your God, or to the judge, even that man shall die. You shall put away the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 17:13
All the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.
- Deuteronomy 19:15
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sins. At the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall a matter be established.
- Deuteronomy 19:20
Those who remain shall hear, and fear, and will never again commit any such evil among you.
- Deuteronomy 21:18
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son, who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them;
- Deuteronomy 21:19
then his father and his mother shall take hold of him and bring him out to the elders of his city, and to the gate of his place.
- Deuteronomy 21:20
They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
- Deuteronomy 21:21
All the men of his city shall stone him to death with stones. So you shall remove the evil from among you. All Israel shall hear, and fear.
- Deuteronomy 21:22
If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree;
- Deuteronomy 21:23
his body shall not remain all night on the tree, but you shall surely bury him the same day; for he who is hanged is accursed of God; that you don’t defile your land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance.
- Deuteronomy 22:18
The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.
- Deuteronomy 22:21
then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 22:22
If a man is found lying with a woman married to a husband, then they shall both die, the man who lay with the woman and the woman. So you shall remove the evil from Israel.
- Deuteronomy 22:23
If there is a young lady who is a virgin pledged to be married to a husband, and a man finds her in the city, and lies with her;
- Deuteronomy 22:24
then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones; the lady, because she didn’t cry, being in the city; and the man, because he has humbled his neighbor’s wife. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 22:25
But if the man finds the lady who is pledged to be married in the field, and the man forces her, and lies with her; then only the man who lay with her shall die;
- Deuteronomy 24:7
If a man is found stealing any of his brothers of the children of Israel, and he deals with him as a slave, or sells him; then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 25:2
It shall be, if the wicked man is worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.
- Deuteronomy 25:3
He may sentence him to no more than forty stripes. He shall not give more; lest, if he should give more, and beat him more than that many stripes, then your brother will be degraded in your sight.
- Joshua 7:25
Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you today.” All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
- Joshua 8:29
He hanged the king of Ai on a tree until the evening, and at sundown Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised a great heap of stones on it that remains to this day.
- 1 Kings 2:25
King Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he fell on him, so that he died.
- 1 Kings 2:26
To Abiathar the priest the king said, “Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the Lord Yahweh’s ark before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted.”
- 1 Kings 2:34
Then Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up and fell on him, and killed him; and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.
- 1 Kings 2:36
The king sent and called for Shimei, and said to him, “Build yourself a house in Jerusalem, and live there, and don’t go anywhere else.
- 1 Kings 2:37
For on the day you go out and pass over the brook Kidron, know for certain that you will surely die. Your blood will be on your own head.”
- 1 Kings 2:38
Shimei said to the king, “What you say is good. As my lord the king has said, so will your servant do.” Shimei lived in Jerusalem many days.
- 1 Kings 2:46
So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 21:10
Set two men, base fellows, before him, and let them testify against him, saying, ‘You cursed God and the king!’ Then carry him out, and stone him to death.”
- Esther 2:23
When this matter was investigated, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree; and it was written in the book of the chronicles in the king’s presence.
- Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked shall fail. They shall have no way to flee. Their hope shall be the giving up of the spirit.”
- Job 34:11
For the work of a man he will render to him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.
- Psalms 50:21
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
- Psalms 55:19
God, who is enthroned forever, will hear, and answer them. Selah. They never change, who don’t fear God.
- Psalms 62:12
Also to you, Lord, belongs loving kindness, for you reward every man according to his work.
- Proverbs 1:24
Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
- Proverbs 1:25
but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;
- Proverbs 1:26
I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;
- Proverbs 1:27
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.
- Proverbs 1:28
Then will they call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
- Proverbs 1:29
because they hated knowledge, and didn’t choose the fear of Yahweh.
- Proverbs 1:30
They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
- Proverbs 1:31
Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
- Proverbs 11:21
Most certainly, the evil man will not be unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will be delivered.
- Proverbs 12:14
A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.
- Proverbs 16:5
Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.
- Proverbs 17:10
A rebuke enters deeper into one who has understanding than a hundred lashes into a fool.
- Proverbs 19:25
Flog a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; rebuke one who has understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
- Proverbs 19:29
Penalties are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools.
- Proverbs 20:30
Wounding blows cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the innermost parts.
- Proverbs 21:11
When the mocker is punished, the simple gains wisdom. When the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.
- Proverbs 24:12
If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this”; doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
- Proverbs 26:3
A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools!
- Proverbs 29:1
He who is often rebuked and stiffens his neck will be destroyed suddenly, with no remedy.
- Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- Ecclesiastes 8:12
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.
- Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn’t fear God.
- Isaiah 5:1
Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.
- Isaiah 5:2
He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and also cut out a wine press therein. He looked for it to yield grapes, but it yielded wild grapes.
- Isaiah 5:3
“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
- Isaiah 5:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
- Isaiah 5:5
Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
- Isaiah 5:6
I will lay it a wasteland. It won’t be pruned nor hoed, but it will grow briers and thorns. I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
- Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
- Isaiah 34:8
For Yahweh has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.
- Isaiah 34:9
Its streams will be turned into pitch, its dust into sulfur, And its land will become burning pitch.
- Isaiah 34:10
It won’t be quenched night nor day. Its smoke will go up forever. From generation to generation, it will lie waste. No one will pass through it forever and ever.
- Isaiah 59:18
According to their deeds, he will repay as appropriate, wrath to his adversaries, recompense to his enemies; he will repay the islands their due.
- Jeremiah 11:11
Therefore Yahweh says, ‘Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.
- Jeremiah 15:1
Then Yahweh said to me, “Though Moses and Samuel stood before me, yet my mind would not be toward this people. Cast them out of my sight, and let them go out!
- Jeremiah 17:10
“I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
- Jeremiah 25:28
It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “You shall surely drink.
- Jeremiah 25:29
For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.”’
- Jeremiah 29:22
A curse shall be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’
- Jeremiah 31:29
“In those days they shall say no more, “‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.’
- Lamentations 5:7
Our fathers sinned, and are no more; We have borne their iniquities.
- Ezekiel 7:3
Now is the end on you, and I will send my anger on you, and will judge you according to your ways. I will bring on you all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 7:19
They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls, neither fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.
- Ezekiel 7:27
The king will mourn, and the prince will be clothed with desolation. The hands of the people of the land will be troubled. I will do to them after their way, and according to their own judgments will I judge them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.’”
- Ezekiel 16:40
They will also bring up a company against you, and they will stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.
- Ezekiel 16:59
“‘For thus says the Lord Yahweh: “I will also deal with you as you have done, who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant.
- Ezekiel 18:2
“What do you mean, that you use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge’?
- Ezekiel 18:3
“As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “you shall not use this proverb any more in Israel.
- Ezekiel 23:25
I will set my jealousy against you, and they will deal with you in fury; they will take away your nose and your ears; and your remnant will fall by the sword. They will take your sons and your daughters; and your residue will be devoured by the fire.
- Ezekiel 39:24
According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I to them; and I hid my face from them.
- Daniel 3:19
Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury, and the form of his appearance was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. He spoke, and commanded that they should heat the furnace seven times more than it was usually heated.
- Daniel 3:20
He commanded certain mighty men who were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:21
Then these men were bound in their pants, their tunics, and their mantles, and their other clothes, and were cast into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 3:22
Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire killed those men who took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Daniel 3:23
These three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the middle of the burning fiery furnace.
- Daniel 12:2
Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
- Amos 2:14
Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won’t strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
- Amos 2:15
neither shall he stand who handles the bow; and he who is swift of foot won’t escape; neither shall he who rides the horse deliver himself;
- Amos 2:16
and he who is courageous among the mighty will flee away naked on that day,” says Yahweh.
- Habakkuk 1:2
Yahweh, how long will I cry, and you will not hear? I cry out to you “Violence!” and will you not save?
- Habakkuk 1:3
Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
- Habakkuk 1:4
Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted.
- Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
- Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers? “Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.’”
- Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land; for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.
- Zechariah 5:4
I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
- Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
- Matthew 5:22
But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
- Matthew 10:28
Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
- Matthew 14:10
and he sent and beheaded John in the prison.
- Matthew 16:27
For the Son of Man will come in the glory of his Father with his angels, and then he will render to everyone according to his deeds.
- Matthew 18:8
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life maimed or crippled, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into the eternal fire.
- Matthew 21:33
“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
- Matthew 21:34
When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.
- Matthew 21:35
The farmers took his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned another.
- Matthew 21:36
Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they treated them the same way.
- Matthew 21:37
But afterward he sent to them his son, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’
- Matthew 21:38
But the farmers, when they saw the son, said among themselves, ‘This is the heir. Come, let’s kill him, and seize his inheritance.’
- Matthew 21:39
So they took him, and threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
- Matthew 21:40
When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those farmers?”
- Matthew 21:41
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”
- Matthew 23:14
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
- Matthew 23:33
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
- Matthew 25:14
“For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
- Matthew 25:15
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
- Matthew 25:16
Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
- Matthew 25:17
In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.
- Matthew 25:18
But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
- Matthew 25:19
“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
- Matthew 25:20
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’
- Matthew 25:21
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
- Matthew 25:22
“He also who got the two talents came and said, ‘Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.’
- Matthew 25:23
“His lord said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.’
- Matthew 25:24
“He also who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.
- Matthew 25:25
I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.’
- Matthew 25:26
“But his lord answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn’t sow, and gather where I didn’t scatter.
- Matthew 25:27
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
- Matthew 25:28
Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.
- Matthew 25:29
For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away.
- Matthew 25:30
Throw out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
- Matthew 25:41
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
- Matthew 25:46
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
- Matthew 27:26
Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.
- Matthew 27:35
When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,
- Matthew 27:38
Then there were two robbers crucified with him, one on his right hand and one on the left.
- Mark 3:29
but whoever may blaspheme against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is subject to eternal condemnation.”
- Mark 6:16
But Herod, when he heard this, said, “This is John, whom I beheaded. He has risen from the dead.”
- Mark 6:27
Immediately the king sent out a soldier of his guard, and commanded to bring John’s head, and he went and beheaded him in the prison,
- Mark 6:28
and brought his head on a platter, and gave it to the young lady; and the young lady gave it to her mother.
- Mark 15:15
Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.
- Mark 15:24
Crucifying him, they parted his garments among them, casting lots on them, what each should take.
- Mark 15:27
With him they crucified two robbers; one on his right hand, and one on his left.
- Luke 3:17
whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor, and will gather the wheat into his barn; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
- Luke 12:47
That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
- Luke 12:48
but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
- Luke 20:47
who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”
- Luke 23:16
I will therefore chastise him and release him.”
- Luke 23:33
When they came to the place that is called The Skull, they crucified him there with the criminals, one on the right and the other on the left.
- John 5:29
and will come out; those who have done good, to the resurrection of life; and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment.
- John 19:1
So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.
- Acts 5:36
For before these days Theudas rose up, making himself out to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed, and came to nothing.
- Acts 5:37
After this man, Judas of Galilee rose up in the days of the enrollment, and drew away some people after him. He also perished, and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered abroad.
- Acts 7:58
They threw him out of the city, and stoned him. The witnesses placed their garments at the feet of a young man named Saul.
- Acts 12:2
He killed James, the brother of John, with the sword.
- Acts 22:24
the commanding officer commanded him to be brought into the barracks, ordering him to be examined by scourging, that he might know for what crime they shouted against him like that.
- Acts 22:29
Immediately those who were about to examine him departed from him, and the commanding officer also was afraid when he realized that he was a Roman, because he had bound him.
- Romans 2:3
Do you think this, O man who judges those who practice such things, and do the same, that you will escape the judgment of God?
- Colossians 3:25
But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
- Hebrews 2:3
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
- Hebrews 6:2
of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.
- Hebrews 10:28
A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.
- Hebrews 10:29
How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?
- Hebrews 10:30
For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me,” says the Lord, “I will repay.” Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”
- Hebrews 10:31
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- Hebrews 12:25
See that you don’t refuse him who speaks. For if they didn’t escape when they refused him who warned on the earth, how much more will we not escape who turn away from him who warns from heaven,
- Revelation 14:10
he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is prepared unmixed in the cup of his anger. He will be tormented with fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.
- Revelation 14:11
The smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever. They have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name.
- Revelation 19:3
A second said, “Hallelujah! Her smoke goes up forever and ever.”
- Revelation 20:10
The devil who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet are also. They will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).