25 occurrences

'Duty' in the Bible

"Let it be so on this occasion," Jesus replied; "for so we ought to fulfil every religious duty." Then he consented;

Your duty then was to deposit my money in some bank, and so when I came I should have got back my property with interest.

It is like a man living abroad who has left his house, and given the management to his servants--to each one his special duty--and has ordered the porter to keep awake.

Now while he was doing priestly duty before God in the prescribed course of his class,

"Why is it that you have been searching for me?" He replied; "did you not know that it is my duty to be engaged upon my Father's business?"

Or those eighteen on whom the tower at Siloam fell, do you suppose they had failed in their duty more than all the rest of the people who live in Jerusalem?

So you also, when you have obeyed all the orders given you, must say, "'There is no merit in our service: what we have done is only what we were in duty bound to do.'"

If I then, your Master and Rabbi, have washed your feet, it is also your duty to wash one another's feet.

Now when Herod was on the point of taking him out of prison, that very night Peter was asleep between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards were on duty outside the door.

"And now, impelled by a sense of duty, I am on my way to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there,

"I myself, however, thought it a duty to do many things in hostility to the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.

So after discharging this duty, and making sure that these kind gifts reach those for whom they are intended, I shall start for Spain, passing through Rome on my way there;

Then I shall proclaim it fully, as it is my duty to do.

For you yourselves know that it is your duty to follow our example. There was no disorder in our lives among you,

For it is an acceptable thing with God, if, from a sense of duty to Him, a man patiently submits to wrong, when treated unjustly.

It is therefore our duty to show hospitality to such men, so that we may be fellow workers in promoting the truth.

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
יבם 
Yabam 
Usage: 3

עונה 
`ownah 
Usage: 1

ὀφείλω ὀφειλέω 
Opheilo 
ought , owe , be bound , be duty , be a debtor , be guilty , be indebted ,
Usage: 24