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Punishment (417 Occurrences)
... The New Testament lays down the general principles of good government, but contains
no code of laws for the punishment of offenders. ...PUNISHMENT, EVERLASTING. ...
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Scourge (24 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) A lash; a strap or cord; especially, a lash used to inflict pain or
punishment; an instrument of punishment or discipline; a whip. ...
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Chastisement (24 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) The act of chastising; pain inflicted for punishment
and correction; discipline; punishment. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. ...
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Scourging (5 Occurrences)
... skurj, skur'-jing (mastix], mastigoo; in Acts 22:25 mastizo, in Mark 15:15 parallel
Matthew 27:26 phragelloo): A Roman implement for severe bodily punishment. ...
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Reverse (12 Occurrences)
... Amos 1:3 Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four,
I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed ...
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Punished (47 Occurrences)
... Luke 23:22 And he said to them a third time, Why, what evil has he done? I see no
reason for putting him to death: I will give him punishment and let him go. ...
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Chastening (11 Occurrences)
... Hebrew mucar, and Greek paideia, are distinguished in English use, in that
"chastisement" is applied to the infliction of pain, either as a punishment or for ...
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Wrongs (26 Occurrences)
... Romans 12:19 Do not give punishment for wrongs done to you, dear brothers, but give
way to the wrath of God; for it is said in the holy Writings, Punishment is ...
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Punishing (7 Occurrences)
... on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God
who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the ...
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Taker (26 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 4:15 Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a
thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's ...
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Guilt (180 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The criminality and consequent exposure to punishment resulting from willful
disobedience of law, or from morally wrong action; the state of one who ...
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Wrongdoer (16 Occurrences)
... But if you do what is wrong, be afraid. He does not wear the sword to no purpose:
he is God's servant--an administrator to inflict punishment upon evil-doers. ...
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Crucifixion (4 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary A common mode of punishment among heathen nations in early
times. ... This punishment began by subjecting the sufferer to scourging. ...
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Snakes (25 Occurrences)
... the mouth. (BBE). Matthew 23:33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will
you be kept from the punishment of hell? (BBE NIV). Mark ...
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Damnation (11 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Condemnation to everlasting punishment in the future state, or the punishment
itself. 3. (n.) A sin deserving of everlasting punishment. Int. ...
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Courts (59 Occurrences)
... (3) Punishment for crime was not to be transferred or entailed (Deuteronomy
24:16). (4) A man's home was inviolate (Deuteronomy 24:10, 11). ...
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Justice (212 Occurrences)
... In remunerative justice he distributes rewards (James 1:12; 2 Timothy 4:8); in
vindictive or punitive justice he inflicts punishment on account of ...
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Dungeon (15 Occurrences)
... Different from the ordinary prison in being more severe as a place of punishment. ...
It is not mentioned, however, in the law of Moses as a mode of punishment. ...
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Damn
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom;
to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure. 2. (vt ...
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Retribution (14 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) That which is given in repayment or compensation; return suitable to the
merits or deserts of, as an action; commonly, condign punishment for evil or ...
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Punish (84 Occurrences)
... unfaithful. (WEY RSV). Luke 23:16 I will therefore give him a light punishment
and release him." (Root in WEY BBE NAS NIV). Luke 23 ...
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Iniquity (299 Occurrences)
... adopted, in actual usage it has three meanings which almost imperceptibly pass into
each other: (1) iniquity, (2) guilt of iniquity, (3) punishment of iniquity ...
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Imputation
... account. This takes place sometimes in a judicial manner, so that the thing
imputed becomes a ground of reward or punishment. The ...
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Hell (53 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The place or state of punishment for the wicked after death; the abode of
evil spirits. ... On theological aspect, see PUNISHMENT, EVERLASTING. ...
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Punishments (31 Occurrences)
... pun'-ish-ments ('awon, "fault," "iniquity," "punishment for iniquity," "sin" (Genesis
4:13 Leviticus 26:41 Job 19:29 Psalm 149:7 Lamentations 4:22 Ezekiel 14 ...
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Transgressions (64 Occurrences)
... He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on
him; and by his wounds we are healed. (WEB KJV JPS ASV DBY YLT NAS RSV NIV). ...
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Quietly (30 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 4:12 And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us
curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly; (BBE). ...
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Undergoes (11 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 2:19 For it is a sign of grace if a man, desiring to do right in the eyes
of God, undergoes pain as punishment for something which he has not done. ...
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Wrongdoers (18 Occurrences)
... Romans 5:16 And the free giving has not the same effect as the sin of one: for the
effect of one man's sin was punishment by the decision of God, but the free ...
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Requital (9 Occurrences)
... (n.) Return, good or bad, for anything done; in a good sense, compensation; recompense;
in a bad sense, retaliation, or punishment; as, the requital of evil ...
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Errors (15 Occurrences)
... Jeremiah 2:19 The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors
will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a ...
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Murder (41 Occurrences)
... Wilful murder was distinguished from accidental homicide, and was invariably visited
with capital punishment (Numbers 35:16, 18, 21, 31; Leviticus 24:17). ...
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Pain (172 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment
for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty. ...
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Punishes (4 Occurrences)
... Punishes (4 Occurrences). Hebrews 12:6 For the Lord sends punishment on his loved
ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod. (See NIV). ...
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Pardon (31 Occurrences)
... 1. (n.) The act of pardoning; forgiveness, as of an offender, or of an offense;
release from penalty; remission of punishment; absolution. ...
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Lake (45 Occurrences)
... In all the above references "the lake of fire" appears as a place of punishment,
of perpetual torment, not of annihilation (20:10). ...
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Judicial (2 Occurrences)
... (3) Punishment for crime was not to be transferred or entailed (Deuteronomy
24:16). (4) A man's home was inviolate (Deuteronomy 24:10, 11). ...
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Everlasting (192 Occurrences)
... Revised Version (British and American) in both passages, "everlasting." The sense
of the word "everlasting," in application to future punishment, is considered ...
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Blows (105 Occurrences)
... NIV). Luke 12:48 But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment
is given, will get only a small number of blows. The ...
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Attackers (41 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Joshua 10:13 And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place
till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. ...
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Undergo (91 Occurrences)
... 1 Corinthians 4:12 And with our hands we do the hardest work: when they give us
curses we give blessings, when we undergo punishment we take it quietly; (BBE). ...
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Rewarded (37 Occurrences)
... Job 31:28 That would have been another sin to be rewarded with punishment by
the judges; for I would have been false to God on high. (BBE). ...
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Evil-doing (106 Occurrences)
... 1 John 5:17 All evil-doing is sin: but death is not the punishment for every sort
of sin. ... Psalms 56:7 By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. ...
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Oath (286 Occurrences)
... the oath was only suggested: "Yahweh (or God) do so to me" (Ruth 1:17 2 Samuel
3:9, 35 1 Kings 2:23 2 Kings 6:31); in some cases the punishment was expressly ...
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Discipline (63 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of
misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc. 5. (n.) Correction ...
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Acting (102 Occurrences)
... 12:7 It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you
as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his ...
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Sanhedrin (19 Occurrences)
... 26:47 Mark 14:43 Acts 4:3; Acts 5:17; 9:02; compare Sanhedrin 1 5). It was empowered
to judge cases which did not involve capital punishment, which latter ...
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Deserve (40 Occurrences)
... Hebrews 10:29 How much severer punishment, think you, will he be held to deserve
who has trampled under foot the Son of God, has not regarded as holy that ...
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Evil-doer (88 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Job 27:13 This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the
heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all. (BBE). ...
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Avenger (18 Occurrences)
... AVENGE; AVENGER. a-venj' a-venj'-er: Avenge.-The general idea connected with
this word is that of inflicting punishment upon the wrongdoer. ...
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Testing (46 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 2:9 The Lord is able to keep the upright safe in the time of testing, and
to keep evil-doers under punishment till the day of judging; (BBE). ...
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Sentence (53 Occurrences)
... See Proposition, 4. 7. (vt) To pass or pronounce judgment upon; to doom;
to condemn to punishment; to prescribe the punishment of. ...
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Sends (94 Occurrences)
... (BBE). Hebrews 12:6 For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone
whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod. (BBE). ...
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Prison (131 Occurrences)
... which state prisoners were kept. The Mosaic law made no provision for
imprisonment as a punishment. In the wilderness two persons ...
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Ransom (46 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) A sum paid for the pardon of some great offense and the discharge of
the offender; also, a fine paid in lieu of corporal punishment. ...
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Fall (522 Occurrences)
... (1.) The guilt, ie, liability to punishment, of that sin comes by imputation upon
all men, because all were represented by Adam in the covenant of works (qv). ...
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Doings (111 Occurrences)
... Isaiah 53:5 But it was for our sins he was wounded, and for our evil doings he was
crushed: he took the punishment by which we have peace, and by his wounds we ...
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Visitation (17 Occurrences)
... men's character and deeds with a view to apportioning to them their due lot, whether
of reward or of chastisement; divine dispensation of mercy or of punishment...
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Vindicating (2 Occurrences)
... 1 Kings 8:32 Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants,
giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his ...
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Unquenchable (5 Occurrences)
... idea lies in 9:48, "The fire is not quenched" (ou sbennutai), and is implied in
the numerous allusions to fire as the instrument of punishment and destruction ...
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Overlooking (11 Occurrences)
... Exodus 34:7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin;
he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for ...
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Overtakes (16 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 28:20 The Lord will send on you cursing and trouble and punishment in
everything to which you put your hand, till sudden destruction overtakes you ...
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Loathsome (20 Occurrences)
... They had no shame, they were not able to become red with shame: so they will come
down with those who are falling: when my punishment comes on them, they will ...
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Laps (6 Occurrences)
... (See NIV). Isaiah 65:6 See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will
not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment, (See NIV). ...
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Gehenna (12 Occurrences)
... 30; Matthew 10:28; Matthew 18:9; Matthew 23:15, 33 Mark 9:43, 15, 47 Luke 12:5 James
3:6. In all of these it designates the place of eternal punishment of the ...
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Witness (295 Occurrences)
... False witnesses were liable to punishment (Deuteronomy 19:16-21). It was also an
offence to refuse to bear witness (Leviticus 5:1). Witness of the Spirit. ...
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Idolatry (14 Occurrences)
... His nearest relatives were not only bound to denounce him and deliver him up to
punishment (Deuteronomy 13:20-10), but their hands were to strike the first ...
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Indulgence (3 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin
has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and ...
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Furnace (35 Occurrences)
... boiler furnace, etc. 2. (n.) A place or time of punishment, affliction,
or great trial; severe experience or discipline. 3. (n.) To ...
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Traders (31 Occurrences)
... 2 Peter 2:3 And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit,
like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready ...
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Revenge (13 Occurrences)
... In English these words are synonymous in that they are both used to express the
infliction of punishment upon the wrongdoer, but "to take revenge" may also ...
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Reprobate (8 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Abandoned to punishment; hence, morally abandoned and lost; given up to
vice; depraved. ... 6. (vt) To abandon to punishment without hope of pardon. Int. ...
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Evil-doers (122 Occurrences)
... 1 Peter 2:14 or to provincial Governors as sent by him for the punishment of
evil-doers and the encouragement of those who do what is right. ...
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Darkness (177 Occurrences)
... See PLAGUE; ECLIPSE. The figurative uses of darkness are many and various. It
is used as a symbol (a) of moral depravity and its punishment. ...
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Disasters (5 Occurrences)
... Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the Lord your God will make your punishment, and the punishment
of your seed, a thing to be wondered at; great punishments and cruel ...
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Decease (2 Occurrences)
... Nor does there seem to have been at first an anticipation of reward or punishment
after death (Psalm 88:10; Sirach 41:4), probably because the shades were ...
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Death-blow (6 Occurrences)
... blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death;
he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood ...
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Deserves (25 Occurrences)
... I have discovered in him nothing that deserves death. I will therefore
give him a light punishment and release him." (WEY). Acts ...
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Manslayer (20 Occurrences)
... The cases in which the manslayer was to be held clearly immune from the punishment
imposed on willful killing were: (1) death by a blow in a sudden quarrel ...
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