'Ought' in the Bible

And Abimelech called Abraham and said to him, What hast thou done to us? And in what have I sinned against thee, that thou hast brought on me, and on my kingdom, a great sin? Thou hast done to me deeds that ought not to be done.

And the sons of Jacob came from the fields when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry, because he had wrought what was disgraceful in Israel, in lying with Jacob's daughter, which thing ought not to be done.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through inadvertence against any of the commandments of Jehovah in things that ought not to be done, and do any of them;

And whoever carrieth ought of their carcase shall wash his garments, and be unclean until the even.

And if ye sell ought unto your neighbour, or buy of your neighbour's hand, ye shall not overreach one another.

then it shall be, if ought be committed by inadvertence hid from the eyes of the assembly, that the whole assembly shall offer one young bullock for a burnt-offering, for a sweet odour to Jehovah, and its oblation and its drink-offering according to the ordinance, and one buck of the goats for a sin-offering.

But the soul that doeth ought with a high hand, whether born in the land, or a stranger, he reproacheth Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

And if she have a husband, when she hath her vow upon her or ought that hath passed her lips wherewith she hath bound her soul,

And of the children of Issachar, who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their bidding.

Then David said, None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites, for them has Jehovah chosen to carry the ark of God, and to serve him for ever.

Ought ye not to know that Jehovah the God of Israel gave the kingdom over Israel to David for ever, to him and to his sons by a covenant of salt?

And I said, The thing that ye do is not good. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, so as not to be the reproach of the nations our enemies?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.

And he said to them, Why is it that ye have sought me? did ye not know that I ought to be occupied in my Father's business?

But woe unto you, Pharisees, for ye pay tithes of mint and rue and every herb, and pass by the judgment and the love of God: these ye ought to have done, and not have left those aside.

But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus healed on the sabbath, answering said to the crowd, There are six days in which people ought to work; in these therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

And this woman, who is a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan has bound, lo, these eighteen years, ought she not to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into his glory?

If I therefore, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet;

The Jews answered him, We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he made himself Son of God.

And some of those who were of the sect of the Pharisees, who believed, rose up from among them, saying that they ought to circumcise them and enjoin them to keep the law of Moses.

Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.

I have shewed you all things, that thus labouring we ought to come in aid of the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have anything against me;

But Paul said, I am standing before the judgment-seat of Caesar, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou also very well knowest.

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye see this person, concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews applied to me both in Jerusalem and here, crying out against him that he ought not to live any longer.

I indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.

And when they had been a long while without taking food, Paul then standing up in the midst of them said, Ye ought, O men, to have hearkened to me, and not have made sail from Crete and have gained this disaster and loss.

But we ought, we that are strong, to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

They have been well pleased indeed, and they are their debtors; for if the nations have participated in their spiritual things, they ought also in fleshly to minister to them.

If any one think he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know it.

For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, being God's image and glory; but woman is man's glory.

Therefore ought the woman to have authority on her head, on account of the angels.

And I have written this very letter to you, that coming I may not have grief from those from whom I ought to have joy; trusting in you all that my joy is that of you all.

I have become a fool; ye have compelled me; for I ought to have been commended by you; for I have been nothing behind those who were in surpassing degree apostles, if also I am nothing.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

for which I am an ambassador bound with a chain, that I may be bold in it as I ought to speak.

to the end that I may make it manifest as I ought to speak.

Let your word be always with grace, seasoned with salt, so as to know how ye ought to answer each one.

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, even as it is meet, because your faith increases exceedingly, and the love of each one of you all towards one another abounds;

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

For ye know yourselves how ye ought to imitate us, because we have not walked disorderly among you;

but if I delay, in order that thou mayest know how one ought to conduct oneself in God's house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth.

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

who must have their mouths stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which ought not to be taught for the sake of base gain.

and, on account of this infirmity, he ought, even as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have again need that one should teach you what are the elements of the beginning of the oracles of God, and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.

All these things then being to be dissolved, what ought ye to be in holy conversation and godliness,

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

Hereby we have known love, because he has laid down his life for us; and we ought for the brethren to lay down our lives.

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

We therefore ought to receive such, that we may be fellow-workers with the truth.