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Bible Verses About Punishment
Find Bible verses about punishment — curated from 31,000+ verses with emotional and contextual scoring. What Scripture actually says.
What does the Bible say about punishment?
The Bible addresses punishment with deep compassion and clarity. From the Psalms to the words of Jesus, Scripture meets you in this exact feeling and offers comfort, strength, and direction. Here are the most powerful verses — each chosen because they speak directly to what you're going through.
Most Powerful Verses
Genesis 4:13
“Cain said to Yahweh, "My punishment is greater than I can bear.”
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Hebrews 10:29
“How much worse punishment, do you think, will he 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?”
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Matthew 25:46
“These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."”
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Matthew 24:51
“and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.”
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Proverbs 16:22
“Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.”
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2 Peter 2:9
“the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment;”
Matthew 13:42
“and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
Matthew 13:50
“and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth."”
Genesis 3:14
“Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you are cursed above all livestock, and above every animal of the field. On your belly you shall go, and you shall eat dust all the days of...”
Jeremiah 50:18
“Therefore thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Behold, I will punish the king of Babylon and his land, as I have punished the king of Assyria.”
Jeremiah 21:5
“I myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and with a strong arm, even in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation.”
Lamentations 4:22
“The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.”
Zechariah 14:19
“This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.”
Zechariah 14:17
“It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.”
Job 34:26
“He strikes them as wicked men in the open sight of others;”
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Jeremiah 23:34 — “As for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, who shall say, The burden of Yahweh, I will even...”
Luke 23:16 — “I will therefore chastise him and release him."...”
Luke 12:47 — “That servant, who knew his lord's will, and didn't prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten wi...”
Deuteronomy 25:2 — “and it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie dow...”
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