'Own' in the Bible

Having been warned in a dream not to go back to Herod, they left for their own country by a different road.

So never worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."

"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, "Let me take the speck out of your eye,' when the beam is in your own eye?

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

But Jesus told him, "Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead."

After getting into a boat, Jesus crossed to the other side and came to his own city.

A person's enemies will include members of his own family.'

If I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own followers drive them out? That is why they will be your judges!

But Jesus told them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown and in his own home." He did not perform many miracles there because of their unbelief.

He answered, "Yes." When Peter went home, Jesus spoke to him first and asked him, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings on the earth collect tolls or tributes? From their own subjects, or from foreigners?"

Jesus told him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell what you own and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

I am allowed to do what I want with my own money, am I not? Or are you envious because I'm generous?'

Many people in the crowd spread their own coats on the road, while others began cutting down branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.

When they had finished making fun of him, they stripped him of the robe, put his own clothes back on him, and led him away to crucify him.

Then he placed it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out of the rock. After rolling a large stone across the door of the tomb, he left,

Jesus had been telling them, "A prophet is without honor only in his hometown, among his relatives, and in his own home."

Then he told them, "You have such a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your own tradition!

Jesus looked at him and loved him. Then he told him, "You're missing one thing. Go and sell everything you own, give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

It's like a man who went on a trip. As he left home, he put his servants in charge, each with his own work, and he ordered the doorkeeper to be alert.

When they had finished making fun of him, they stripped him of the purple robe, put his own clothes back on him, and led him away to crucify him.

Indeed, a sword will pierce your own soul, too, so that the inner thoughts of many people might be revealed."

"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you don't see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you'll see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

because every tree is known by its own fruit. People don't gather figs from thorny plants or pick grapes from a thorn bush.

But he told him, "Let the dead bury their own dead. But you go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

If I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your own followers drive them out? That is why they will be your judges!

"When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own mansion, his property is safe.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, as well as his own life, he can't be my disciple.

The master praised the dishonest servant manager for being so clever, because worldly people are more clever than enlightened people in dealing with their own.

And if you haven't been faithful with what belongs to foreigners, who will give you what is your own?

The king told him, "I will judge you by your own words, you evil servant! You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, and that I withdraw what I didn't deposit and harvest what I didn't plant?

but I have prayed for you that your own faith may not fail. When you have come back, you must strengthen your brothers."

"Why do we need any more testimony?" they asked. "We have heard it ourselves from his own mouth!"

He came to his own creation, yet his own people did not receive him.

But the sanctuary he was speaking about was his own body.

I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own."

since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

So the Jewish leaders were trying all the harder to kill him, because he was not only breaking the Sabbath but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.

Jesus told them, "Truly, I tell all of you emphatically, the Son can do nothing on his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing, What the Father does, the Son does likewise.

I can do nothing on my own accord. I judge according to what I hear, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me."

"If I testify on my own behalf, my testimony is not trustworthy.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. Yet if another man comes in his own name, you will accept him.

I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

If anyone wants to do his will, he'll know whether this teaching is from God or whether I'm speaking on my own.

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own praise. But the one who seeks the praise of him who sent him is genuine, and there's nothing false in him.

At this point Jesus, still teaching in the Temple, shouted, "So you know me and know where I've come from? I haven't come on my own accord. But the one who sent me is true, and he's the one you don't know.

One of their own, Nicodemus (the man who had previously met with Jesus), asked them,

Then all of them went to their own homes.

In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two people is valid.

So Jesus told them, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM, and that I do nothing on my own authority. Instead, I speak only what the Father has taught me.

Jesus told them, "If God were your Father, you would've loved me, because I came from God and am here. I haven't come on my own accord, but he sent me.

I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks it, and he is the Judge.

It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has driven out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them,

I'm the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

No one is taking it from me; I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This is what my Father has commanded me."

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

because I haven't spoken on my own authority. Instead, the Father who sent me has himself commanded me what to say and how to speak.

Now before the Passover Festival, Jesus realized that his hour had come to leave this world and return to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

You believe, don't you, that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you I don't speak on my own. It is the Father who dwells in me and who carries out his work.

I'm leaving you at peace. I'm giving you my own peace. I'm not giving it to you as the world gives. So don't let your hearts be troubled, and don't be afraid.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as one of its own. But because you do not belong to the world and I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

Yet when the Spirit of Truth comes, he'll guide you into all truth. He won't speak on his own accord, but he'll speak whatever he hears and will declare to you the things that are to come.

Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.

Then the high priest questioned Jesus about his disciples and about his own teaching.

Jesus replied, "Are you asking this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about me?"

Pilate replied, "I am not a Jew, am I? It is your own nation and high priests who have handed you over to me. What have you done?"

Then he told the disciple, "Here is your mother." And from that hour the disciple took her into his own home.

He answered them, "It isn't for you to know what times or periods the Father has fixed by his own authority.

to serve in this office of apostle, from which Judas left to go to his own place."

When that sound came, a crowd quickly gathered, startled because each one heard the disciples speaking in his own language.

So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language:

Cretans, and Arabs, listening to them talk in our own languages about the great deeds of God?"

When Peter saw this, he told the people: "Fellow Israelis, why are you wondering about this, and why are you staring at us as if by our own power or godliness we made him walk?

Now all the believers were one in heart and soul, and nobody called any of his possessions his own. Instead, they shared everything they owned.

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

When he was placed outside, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

It was this Moses who told the Israelis, "God will raise up a prophet for you from among your own brothers, just as he did me.'

Then God removed Saul and made David their king, about whom he testified, "I have found that David, the son of Jesse, is a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my wishes.'

Now David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died and was buried with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay.

In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,

For we live, move, and exist because of him, as some of your own poets have said: ""Since we are his children, too.'

So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.

But when they began to oppose him and insult him, he shook out his clothes in protest and told them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the gentiles."

But since it is a question about words, names, and your own Law, you will have to take care of that yourselves. I refuse to be a judge in these matters."

Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.

Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.

You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who were with me.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, and tied his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, "The Holy Spirit says, "This is how the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. Then they will hand him over to the gentiles.'"

"Then he said, "The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear his own voice,

Instead, they had several arguments with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus who had died but Paul kept asserting he was alive.

All the Jews know how I lived from the earliest days of my youth with my own people and in Jerusalem.

On the third day they threw the ship's equipment overboard with their own hands.

But the Jews objected and forced me to appeal to the emperor, even though I have no countercharge to bring against my own people.

For two whole years Paul lived in his own rented place and welcomed everyone who came to him.

They show that what the Law requires is written in their hearts, a fact to which their own consciences testify, and their thoughts will either accuse or excuse them

His faith did not weaken when he thought about his own body (which was already as good as dead now that he was about a hundred years old) or about Sarah's inability to have children,