'Ought' in the Bible
Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest.
for the Holy Spirit will teach you in that very hour what you ought to say.”
So you too, when you do all the things which are commanded you, say, ‘We are unworthy slaves; we have done only that which we ought to have done.’”
Now He was telling them a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart,
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”
If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
The Jews answered him, “We have a law, and by that law He ought to die because He made Himself out to be the Son of God.”
Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man.
So, since these are undeniable facts, you ought to keep calm and to do nothing rash.
who ought to have been present before you and to make accusation, if they should have anything against me.
But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.
Festus *said, “King Agrippa, and all you gentlemen here present with us, you see this man about whom all the people of the Jews appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly declaring that he ought not to live any longer.
When they had gone a long time without food, then Paul stood up in their midst and said, “Men, you ought to have followed my advice and not to have set sail from Crete and incurred this damage and loss.
For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength and not just please ourselves.
If anyone supposes that he knows anything, he has not yet known as he ought to know;
Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.
For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God. I speak this to your shame.
This is the very thing I wrote you, so that when I came, I would not have sorrow from those who ought to make me rejoice; having confidence in you all that my joy would be the joy of you all.
But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in proclaiming it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
that I may make it clear in the way I ought to speak.
Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more.
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as is only fitting, because your faith is greatly enlarged, and the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater;
For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you,
but in case I am delayed, I write so that you will know how one ought to conduct himself in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and support of the truth.
The hard-working farmer ought to be the first to receive his share of the crops.
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.
from the same mouth come both blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not to be this way.
Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.”
Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness,
the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.
We know love by this, that 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 also ought to love one another.
Therefore we ought to support such men, so that we may be fellow workers with the truth.