Luke 7:4

James Moffatt - New Testament

When they reached Jesus they asked him earnestly to do this. "He deserves to have this favour from you," they said,

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Still, you have a few souls at Sardis who have not soiled their raiment; they shall walk beside me in white, for they deserve to.

if the household is deserving, let your peace rest on it; but if the household is undeserving, let your peace return to you.

but those who are considered worthy to attain yonder world and the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are married,

Whatever town or village you go into, find out a deserving inhabitant and stay with him till you leave.

so, when the captain heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and make his servant well.

"for he is a lover of our nation; it was he who built our synagogue."

a religious man, who reverenced God with all his household, who was liberal in his alms to the People, and who constantly prayed to God.