'Ought' in the Bible

Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee;

And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.

And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.

But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

For the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say.

And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

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

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?

If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

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

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device.

Seeing then that these things cannot be spoken against, ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And they are informed of thee, that thou teachest all the Jews which are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, saying that they ought not to circumcise their children, neither to walk after the customs.

Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.

Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

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

And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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;

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.

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.

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.