And everyone who listens to these words of mine and does not act upon them will be like a stupid man who built his house on sand.

Ought you not to have had mercy on your fellow-servant, as I had on you?'

so do whatever they tell you, obey them, but do not do as they do. They talk but they do not act.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omit ting the former.

and asked him, "What authority have you for acting in this way? Who gave you authority to act in this way?"

But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omitting the former.

and also granted him authority to act as judge, since he is Son of man.

The scribes and Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of committing adultery, and making her stand forward

they said to him, "Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.

I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you act as you have learned from your father."

Hence, in my opinion, we ought not to put fresh difficulties in the way of those who are turning to God from among the Gentiles,

Well, as the race of God, we ought not to imagine that the divine nature resembles gold or silver or stone, the product of human art and invention.

who ought to have been here before you with any charge they may have against me.

Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal; that is where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong whatever to the Jews ??you know that perfectly well.

"King Agrippa and all here present," said Festus, "you see before you a man of whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem and also here have complained to me. They loudly insist he ought not to live any longer.

Well then, as one man's trespass issued in doom for all, so one man's act of redress issues in acquittal and life for all.

I cannot understand my own actions; I do not act as I want to act; on the contrary, I do what I detest.

Now, when I act against my wishes, that means I agree that the Law is right.

Well, if I act against my wishes, it is not I who do the deed but sin that dwells within me.

In virtue of my office, I tell everyone of your number who is self-important, that he is not to think more of himself than he ought to think; he must take a sane view of himself, corresponding to the degree of faith which God has assigned to each.

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

And yet you are puffed up! You ought much rather to be mourning the loss of a member! Expel the perpetrator of such a crime!

If a woman will not veil herself, she should cut off her hair as well. But she ought to veil herself; for it is disgraceful that a woman should have her hair cut off or be shaven.

So the very reason I wrote was that I might not come only to be pained by those who ought to give me joy; I relied on you all, I felt sure that my joy would be a joy for everyone of you.

God is able to bless you with ample means, so that you may always have quite enough for any emergency of your own and ample besides for any kind act to others;

Let him understand that I will act when I arrive, as forcibly as I express myself by letter when I am absent.

I asked Titus to go, and with him I sent our brother. Titus did not make anything out of you, did he? And did not I act in the same spirit as he did? Did I not take the very same steps?

Be strictly careful then about the life you lead; act like sensible men, not like thoughtless;

So ought husbands to love their wives ??to love them as their own bodies (he who loves his wife loves himself).

And as for you masters, act by your servants in the same way, and stop threatening them; be sure that they and you have a Lord and Master in heaven, and there is no partiality about him.

in case I am detained, to let you see how people ought to behave within the household of God; it is the church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the Truth.

Every high priest who is selected from men and appointed to act on behalf of men in things divine, offering gifts and sacrifices for sins,

Act on the Word, instead of merely listening to it and deluding yourselves.

Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom;

blessing and cursing stream from the same lips! My brothers, this ought not to be.

You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

Now as all things are thus to be dissolved, what holy and pious men ought you to be in your behaviour,

he who says he 'remains in him' ought to live as he lived.

We know what love is by this, that He laid down his life for us; so we ought to lay down our lives for the brotherhood.

Beloved, if God had such love for us, we ought to love one another.

Now, remember the height from which you have fallen; repent and act as you did at first. If not, I will come to you [very soon] and remove your lamp stand, unless you repent.