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|txtha=[[imperfect]] [[ὤφειλον]]; [[present]] [[passive]] participle ὀφειλόμενος; from [[Homer]] [[down]]; to [[owe]];<br /><b class="num">a.</b> [[properly]], to [[owe]] [[money]], be in [[debt]] for: τίνι τί, τό ὀφειλόμενον, [[that]] [[which]] is [[due]], the [[debt]], [[αὐτῷ]] ([[which]] L Tr WH [[omit]]), [[that]] [[due]] to him, τί, [[passive]] [[τήν]] εὔνοιαν ὀφειλομένην, the [[good-will]] [[due]] (A. V. ([[not]] R. V.) [[due]] [[benevolence]]), μηδενί [[μηδέν]] ὀφείλετε ([[here]] ὀφείλετε, on [[account]] of [[what]] precedes and [[what]] follows, [[must]] be taken in its broadest [[sense]], [[both]] [[literal]] and tropical), [[εἰ μή]] τό ἀλλήλους ἀγαπᾶν, [[owe]] no [[one]] [[anything]] [[except]] to [[love]] [[one]] [[another]], [[because]] we [[must]] [[never]] [[cease]] [[loving]] and the [[debt]] of [[love]] [[can]] [[never]] be paid, to be a [[debtor]], be [[bound]]: to be [[under]] [[obligation]], [[bound]] by [[duty]] or [[necessity]], to do [[something]]; it behooves [[one]]; [[one]] [[ought]]; used [[thus]] of a [[necessity]] imposed [[either]] by [[law]] and [[duty]], or by [[reason]], or by the times, or by the [[nature]] of the [[matter]] [[under]] [[consideration]] (according to Westcott (Epistles of John , p. 5), Cremer, others, denoting [[obligation]] in its [[special]] and [[personal]] aspects): ὀφείλει ἀποθανεῖν, he [[ought]] to [[die]]); A. V. [[need]] so requireth)); [[ὤφειλον]] συνίστασθαι, I [[ought]] to [[have]] been commended, i. e. I [[can]] [[demand]] [[commendation]], [[ὀφειλέτης]], b., [[ὀφείλημα]], b.), [[ὀφείλω]] τίνι, to [[have]] wronged [[one]] and [[not]] [[yet]] made [[amends]] to him (A. V. [[indebted]]), [[προσοφείλω]].)  

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