14 occurrences

'Worthy of Death' in the Bible

lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he didn't hate him in time past.

If a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be put to death, and you hang him on a tree;

but to the lady you shall do nothing; there is in the lady no sin worthy of death: for as when a man rises against his neighbor, and kills him, even so is this matter;

To Abiathar the priest the king said, "Go to Anathoth, to your own fields; for you are worthy of death. But I will not at this time put you to death, because you bore the ark of the Lord Yahweh before David my father, and because you were afflicted in all in which my father was afflicted."

Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.

Then the princes and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets: This man is not worthy of death; for he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.

You have heard the blasphemy! What do you think?" They all condemned him to be worthy of death.

Neither has Herod, for I sent you to him, and see, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him.

When they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, "This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds."