Bible Verses about 'Ought'

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• Beloved, since God loved us so much, we also ought to love one another.
  1 John 4:11loveGodcommunity
• So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
  John 13:14humilityservingJesus
• We know love by this, that he laid down his life for us—and we ought to lay down our lives for one another.
  1 John 3:16loveJesusneighbor
• From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers and sisters, this ought not to be so.
  James 3:10sinspeakingworship
• Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words.
  Romans 8:26speakingSpiritprayer
• In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
  Ephesians 5:28relationshipsmarriagebody
• Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the most of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer everyone.
  Colossians 4:5-6gentlenesswisdomspeaking
• For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of yourself more highly than you ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
  Romans 12:3gracefaithmind
• If any of you sin without knowing it, doing any of the things that by the Lord's commandments ought not to be done, you have incurred guilt, and are subject to punishment.
  Leviticus 5:17sinlawpunishment
• Now he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath. And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years. She was bent over and was quite unable to stand up straight. When Jesus saw her, he called her over and said, “Woman, you are set free from your ailment.” When he laid his hands on her, immediately she stood up straight and began praising God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured, and not on the sabbath day.” But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the manger, and lead it away to give it water? And ought not this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be set free from this bondage on the sabbath day?” When he said this, all his opponents were put to shame; and the entire crowd was rejoicing at all the wonderful things that he was doing.
  Luke 13:10-17miracleshealingsabbath
• We must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of everyone of you for one another is increasing.
  2 Thessalonians 1:3faithlovegratitude
• Come to a sober and right mind, and sin no more; for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
  1 Corinthians 15:34righteousnesssinconversion
• Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.
  Mark 11:25prayerforgivenessFather
• Let the believer who is lowly boast in being raised up, and the rich in being brought low, because the rich will disappear like a flower in the field.
  James 1:9-10pridehumilitymoney
• You must neither add anything to what I command you nor take away anything from it, but keep the commandments of the Lord your God with which I am charging you.
  Deuteronomy 4:2obediencelawfollowing
• Now the whole group of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything they owned was held in common.
  Acts 4:32materialismcommunity
• For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
  nor are your ways my ways, says the Lord.
  Isaiah 55:8Godplanningwisdom
• Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural, and in the same way also the men, giving up natural intercourse with women, were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameless acts with men and received in their own persons the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind and to things that should not be done.
  Romans 1:25-28idolssexualitydesires
• For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
  so are my ways higher than your ways
  and my thoughts than your thoughts.
  Isaiah 55:9planningunderstandingheaven
• I shall walk at liberty,
  for I have sought your precepts.
  Psalm 119:45freedomlawseeking
• When I thought, “My foot is slipping,”
  your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
  Psalm 94:18reliabilitylovedependence
• Give heed to my reproof;
  I will pour out my thoughts to you;
  I will make my words known to you.
  Proverbs 1:23conversionrepentancewisdom
• I sought the Lord, and he answered me,
  and delivered me from all my fears.
  Psalm 34:4fearlisteningseeking
• But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
  Ephesians 2:13Jesusnearnessblood
• O Lord, you have searched me and known me.
  You know when I sit down and when I rise up;
  you discern my thoughts from far away.
  Psalm 139:1-2seekingthoughtsunderstanding