These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

because these are days of punishment, so that all things which have been written will be fulfilled.

Therefore I will punish Him and release Him.”

And he said to them a third time, “Why, what has this man done wrong? I have found in His case no grounds for a sentence of death; therefore I will punish Him and release Him.”

When they had threatened them further, they let them go (finding no basis on which to punish them) on account of the people, because they were all glorifying God for what had happened;

as also the high priest and all the Council of the elders can testify. From them I also received letters to the brothers, and started off for Damascus in order to bring even those who were there to Jerusalem as prisoners to be punished.

And as I punished them often in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to blaspheme; and since I was extremely enraged at them, I kept pursuing them even to foreign cities.

Sufficient for such a person is this punishment which was imposed by the majority,

as unknown and yet well known, as dying and yet behold, we are alive; as punished and yet not put to death,

For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

and we are ready to punish all disobedience, whenever your obedience is complete.

I have confidence in you in the Lord, that you will adopt no other view; but the one who is disturbing you will bear the punishment, whoever he is.

For if the word spoken through angels proved unalterable, and every violation and act of disobedience received a just punishment,

How much more severe punishment do you think he will deserve who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, Nor faint when you are punished by Him;

For whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He punishes every son whom He accepts.”

or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right.

then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from a trial, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment,

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.

just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, since they in the same way as these angels indulged in sexual perversion and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.