* not exceed.
  2Co 11:24,25 
 * vile unto thee.
   That is, be beaten so cruelly, that, by retaining the marks,
   he become contemptible in the eyes of his brethren.
   Amendment, and not this, was the object of the punishment.  We
   should hate and despise the sin, but not the sinner.

  Job 18:3  Lu 15:30  18:9-12  Jas 2:2,3