Meaning of “punishment”
Punishment — The New Testament lays down the general principles of good government, but contains no code of laws for the punishment of offenders. Punishment proceeds on the principle that there is an eternal distinction between right and wrong, and that this distinction must be maintained for its own sake. It is not primarily intended for the reformation of criminals, nor for the purpose of deterring others from sin. These results may be gained, but crime in itself demands punishment. (See MURDER »T0002621; THEFT »T0003632.) Endless, of the impenitent and unbelieving. The rejection of this doctrine "cuts the ground from under the gospel...blots out the attribute of retributive justice; transmutes sin into misfortune instead of guilt; turns all suffering into chastisement; converts the piacular work of Christ into moral influence...The attempt to retain the evangelical theology in connection with it is futile" (Shedd).
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Genesis Chapter 4 Verse 13 — And Cain said unto the LORD, My punishment is greater than I can bear. Leviticus Chapter 26 Verse 43 — The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes. Leviticus Chapter 26 Verse 41 — And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity: 1 Samuel Chapter 28 Verse 10 — And Saul sware to her by the LORD, saying, As the LORD liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing. Job Chapter 19 Verse 29 — Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment. Job Chapter 31 Verse 3 — Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity? Psalms Chapter 149 Verse 7 — To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; Proverbs Chapter 19 Verse 19 — A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again. Lamentations Chapter 3 Verse 39 — Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins? Lamentations Chapter 4 Verse 22 — The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. Lamentations Chapter 4 Verse 6 — For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. Ezekiel Chapter 14 Verse 10 — And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him; Amos Chapter 1 Verse 13 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border: Amos Chapter 1 Verse 11 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he did pursue his brother with the sword, and did cast off all pity, and his anger did tear perpetually, and he kept his wrath for ever: Amos Chapter 1 Verse 9 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Tyrus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom, and remembered not the brotherly covenant: Amos Chapter 1 Verse 6 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Gaza, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver them up to Edom: Amos Chapter 1 Verse 3 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron: Amos Chapter 2 Verse 6 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; Amos Chapter 2 Verse 4 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law of the LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked: Amos Chapter 2 Verse 1 — Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime: Zechariah Chapter 14 Verse 19 — This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles. Matthew Chapter 25 Verse 46 — And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal. 2 Corinthians Chapter 2 Verse 6 — Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many. Hebrews Chapter 10 Verse 29 — Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? 1 Peter Chapter 2 Verse 14 — Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
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