'Deserving' in the Bible
“If anyone is found guilty of an offense deserving the death penalty and is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,
Do nothing to the young woman, because she is not guilty of an offense deserving death. This case is just like one in which a man attacks his neighbor and murders him.
For that would be a disgrace;it would be a crime deserving punishment.
this would also be a crime deserving punishment,for I would have denied God above.
You have heard the blasphemy! What is your decision?”And they all condemned Him to be deserving of death.
But the one who did not know and did things deserving of blows will be beaten lightly. Much will be required of everyone who has been given much. And even more will be expected of the one who has been entrusted with more.
If then I am doing wrong, or have done anything deserving of death, I do not refuse to die, but if there is nothing to what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
Now I realized that he had not done anything deserving of death, but when he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.
This saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them.