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Your
Inserted in A.V. Better, the Lord and the Master as Rev. Both have the article.
Ought (ὀφείλετε)
The verb means to owe. It occurs several times in John's Epistles (1Jo 2:6; 1Jo 3:16; 1Jo 4:11; 3Jo 1:8). In the Gospel only here and Joh 19:7. Compare Luk 17:10. In Matthew's version of the Lord's prayer occur the two kindred words ὀφείλνμα, debt, and ὀφειλέτης, debtor. Jesus here puts the obligation to ministry as a debt under which His disciples are laid by His ministry to them. The word ought is the past tense of owe. Δεῖ, ought or must (see Joh 3:7, Joh 3:14, Joh 3:30, etc.) expresses an obligation in the nature of things; ὀφείλειν, a special, personal obligation.