'Deserve' in the Bible
"If you love those who love you, what thanks do you deserve? Why, even sinners love those who love them.
If you do good to those who do good to you, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners do that.
If you lend to those from whom you expect to get something back, what thanks do you deserve? Even sinners lend to sinners to get back what they lend.
I don't deserve to be called your son anymore. Treat me like one of your hired men."'
Then his son told him, "Father, I have sinned against heaven and you. I don't deserve to be called your son anymore.'
Neither has Herod, because he sent Him back to us. Clearly, He has done nothing to deserve death.
We are punished justly, because we’re getting back what we deserve for the things we did, but this man has done nothing wrong.”
Therefore, if I am guilty and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not try to escape death; but if there is nothing to the accusations which these men are bringing against me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar (Emperor Nero).”
As they were leaving, they began to say to each other, "This man hasn't been doing anything to deserve death or imprisonment."
They, after they had sharply questioned me, were willing to set me at liberty, because they found no offence in me for which I deserve to die.
Although they know full well God’s just sentence—that those who practice such things deserve to die—they not only do them, but even applaud others who practice them.
He will pay back to each person according to his deeds [justly, as his deeds deserve]:
Or can we say as some people slander us by claiming that we say "Let's do evil that good may result"? They deserve to be condemned!
If we have set our hopes on the Messiah in this life only, we deserve more pity than any other people.
even when we were [spiritually] dead and separated from Him because of our sins, He made us [spiritually] alive together with Christ (for by His grace—His undeserved favor and mercy—you have been saved from God’s judgment).
For he has come to deserve greater glory than Moses, just as the builder of a house deserves greater honor than the house itself!
How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, regarded as profane the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and insulted the Spirit of grace?
I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am the one who searches minds and hearts. I will reward each of you as your actions deserve.
Because they poured outthe blood of the saints and the prophets,You also gave them blood to drink;they deserve it!