'Deserving' in the Bible
But you shall not do anything to the young woman, [for] there is not [reckoned] against the young woman {a sin deserving death}; {it is similar to when} a man rises up against his neighbor and murders him, {a fellow human being}, [just] so [is] this {case},
Do not [take] a traveler's bag for the road, or two tunics, or sandals, or a staff, for the worker [is] deserving of his provisions.
You have heard the blasphemy! What {do you think}?" And they all condemned him {as deserving death}.
But the one who did not know and did [things] deserving blows {will be given a light beating}. And from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be demanded, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will ask him [for] even more.
But neither [did] Herod, because he sent him back to us. And behold, nothing deserving death {has been done} by him.
So he said to them a third [time], "Why? What wrong has this man done? I found no basis for an accusation {deserving death} in him. Therefore I will punish him [and] release [him]."
I found {he} was accused concerning controversial questions of their law, but having no charge deserving death or imprisonment.
If then I am doing wrong and have done anything deserving death, I am not trying to avoid dying. But if there is nothing [true] of [the things] which these [people] are accusing me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"
But I understood [that] he had done nothing deserving death himself, and [when] this man appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send [him].
And [as they] were going out, they were talking to one another, saying, "This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment."
The statement [is] trustworthy and deserving of complete acceptance.
because they have poured out the blood of the saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink; they are deserving!"
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