Duty

While on the topic of duty, I want to share some verses that describe what we ought to do. Note the references in them to the other characteristics with which I claim duty is associated. I am happy to find that there is some support for my theory in the Bible.

Luke 17:10, "So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do."

John 13:14, "If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet."

Romans 15:1, "We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves."

2 Corinthians 12:14, "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."

Ephesians 5:28, "So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself."

1 John 2:6, "He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked."

1 John 3:16, "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."

3 John 1:5-8, "Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: Because that for his name's sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth."

In these verses, the word "ought" is the same as "duty" in Luke 17. It is the Greek opheilo meaning: to owe, that which is due.

"Due" is the root of "duty."

To God be all glory.