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Assault and Battery

Passages from across the Bible

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Exodus 21:15 Whoever strikes his father or mother must surely be put to death.
Exodus 21:18 If men are quarreling and one strikes the other with a stone or a fist, and he does not die but is confined to bed,
Exodus 21:22–27 If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows. But if a serious injury results, then you must require a life for a life — eye for eye, tooth for tooth…
Deuteronomy 17:8–12 If a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose. You are to go to the Levitical priests and to the judge who presides at that time. Inquire of them, and th…
Matthew 5:38–39 You have heard that it was said, ‘Eye for eye and tooth for tooth.’ But I tell you not to resist an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn to him the other also;

Isaiah 50:6 I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
Lamentations 3:30 Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.

Matthew 26:67 Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
Matthew 27:30 Then they spit on Him and took the staff and struck Him on the head repeatedly.
Mark 14:65 Then some of them began to spit on Him. They blindfolded Him, struck Him with their fists, and said to Him, “Prophesy!” And the officers received Him with slaps in His face.
Luke 22:63 The men who were holding Jesus began to mock Him and beat Him.
John 19:3 And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.

Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.