'Ought' in the Bible

Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.

And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all.

So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

He made Christ who knew no sin to [judicially] be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we would become the righteousness of God [that is, we would be made acceptable to Him and placed in a right relationship with Him by His gracious lovingkindness].

I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not yours, but you: for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Finally, believers, rejoice! Be made complete [be what you should be], be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace [enjoy the spiritual well-being experienced by believers who walk closely with God]; and the God of love and peace [the source of lovingkindness] will be with you.

But fornication and every kind of impurity, or covetousness, let them not even be mentioned among you, for they ought not to be named among God's people.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

We ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because increase greatly doth your faith, and abound doth the love of each one of you all, to one another;

And we -- we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved by the Lord, that God did choose you from the beginning to salvation, in sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth,

For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you;

He ought not to be a new convert, for fear he should be blinded with pride and come under the same condemnation as the Devil.

But if I should be delayed, I have written so that you will know how people ought to act in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not.

The hardworking farmer ought to be the first to get a share of the crops.

And a bondman of the Lord ought not to contend, but be gentle towards all; apt to teach; forbearing;

Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

If he hath wronged thee, or oweth thee ought, put that on mine account;

Yes, brother, I ought to have some benefit of you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.

And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

equip you with every good thing to carry out His will and strengthen you [making you complete and perfect as you ought to be], accomplishing in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

Your adornment ought not to be a merely outward thing--one of plaiting the hair, putting on jewelry, or wearing beautiful dresses.

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace [who imparts His blessing and favor], who called you to His own eternal glory in Christ, will Himself complete, confirm, strengthen, and establish you [making you what you ought to be].

Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.

But you, beloved, ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ,