'Ought' in the Bible
Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and [when I] returned I would have gotten back [what was] mine with interest!
If then I--[your] Lord and Teacher--wash your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
The Jews replied to him, "We have a law, and according to the law he ought to die, because he made himself out to be the Son of God!"
Therefore, [because we] are offspring of God, we ought not to think the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by human skill and thought.
But [there are] some Jews from Asia who ought to be present before you and bring charges against [me], if they have anything against me,
And [because] many were experiencing lack of appetite, at that time Paul stood up in their midst [and] said, "Men, [you] ought to have followed my [advice] not to put out to sea from Crete, and [thus] avoided this damage and loss!
And likewise also, the Spirit helps [us] in our weakness, for we do not know how to pray as one ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes [for us] [with] unexpressed groanings.
For by the grace given to me I say to everyone who is among you not to think more highly of yourself than what one ought to think, but to think {sensibly}, as God has apportioned a measure of faith to each one.
But we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
For they were pleased [to do so], and they are obligated to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in their spiritual [things], they ought also to serve them in material [things].
But if anyone thinks he is behaving dishonorably concerning his virgin, if she is past her prime and it ought to be thus, let him do what he wishes. He does not sin. Let them marry.
Or doubtless does he speak {for our sake}? For it is written {for our sake}, because the one who plows ought to plow in hope and the one who threshes [ought to do so] in hope of a share.
For indeed a man ought not to cover his head, [because he] is the image and glory of God, but the woman is the glory of the man.
Because of this, the woman ought to have [a symbol of] authority on her head, on account of the angels.
And I wrote this very [thing] in order that [when I] came, I would not experience sorrow from those who ought to have made me glad, [because I] have confidence about you all, that my joy {belongs to all of you}.
I have become a fool! You compelled me, for I ought to have been commended by you, for [I am] in no way inferior to the preeminent apostles, even if I am nothing.
Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.
We ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers, just as it is fitting, because your faith is flourishing and the love of each one of you all toward one another is increasing
But we ought to give thanks to God always concerning you, brothers [dearly] loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you [as] first fruits for salvation by the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth,
Yes, brother, I ought to have some benefit of you in the Lord; refresh my heart in Christ.
For indeed, [although you] ought to be teachers {by this time}, you have need of someone to teach you again the beginning elements of the oracles of God, and {you have need of} milk, not solid food.
From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these [things] ought not to be so!
The one who says [that he] resides in him ought also to walk just as that one walked.
We have come to know love by this: that {he} laid down his life on behalf of us, and we ought to lay down our lives on behalf of the brothers.
Dear friends, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.
Therefore we ought to support such [people], so that we become fellow workers with [the] truth.
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