Quotes about Penalty
For the land will be abandoned by them, and it will enjoy its Sabbaths by lying desolate without them. And they will pay the penalty for their iniquity, because they rejected My ordinances and abhorred My statutes.
— Leviticus 26:43
The death of Christ proclaimed the justice and perpetuity of his Father's law in punishing the transgressor, in that he consented to suffer the penalty of the law himself, in order to save fallen man from its curse.
— Ellen White
That Christ died for me, and therefore I am completely free from penalty, is never taught in the New Testament. What is taught in the New Testament is that "He died for all" (2 Corinthians 5:15)—not, "He died my death"—and that through identification with His death I can be freed from sin, and have His very righteousness imparted as a gift to me.
— Oswald Chambers
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
— St. Augustine
What else is the electric chair or lethal injection than human sacrifice?
— Madeleine L'Engle
If the guilty man deserves to be beaten, the judge shall have him lie down and be flogged in his presence with the number of lashes his crime warrants.
— Deuteronomy 25:2
Today's choices become tomorrow's circumstances. Proverbs 27:12 says, "The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
— Lysa TerKeurst
That Christ died for me, and therefore I am completely free from penalty, is never taught in the New Testament.
— Oswald Chambers
Past: Jesus saved us from the penalty of sin. Present: He saves us from the power of sin. Future: He will save us from the presence of sin.
— Mark Driscoll
In both its precepts and penalty, the law of God in its most exacting requirements was fulfilled by Jesus. And He did this in our place as our representative and our substitute.
— Jerry Bridges
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
— St. Augustine
A man of great anger must pay the penalty; if you rescue him, you will have to do so again.
— Proverbs 19:19