Acts 5:29 Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. The word "ought" is but an old past form of the verb "owe"; it is, in fact, but another spelling of "owed." What, therefore, we ought to do, we owed to do; what we ought to be, are owed to be. To God we owe our lives; we ought to pay Him with our lives. What we owe to our fellow-man, is that which we owe it to God to do for an honoured creature of God. We ought to do it because we owe to do it. And yet we go on saying we ought to do and we ought to be, never thinking that what we ought we owe, and that what we owe we do not pay! (H. C. Trumbull, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.WEB: But Peter and the apostles answered, "We must obey God rather than men. |
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