23 Bible Verses about Acting For Oneself
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So they said unto him - Who, art thou? that, an answer, we may give, unto them who sent us, - What sayest thou, concerning thyself?
Brethren! if a man should even be overtaken in any fault, ye, the spiritual, be restoring such a one, in a spirit of meekness, looking to thyself, lest, even thou, be put to the test.
For what doth a man profit, who hath gained the whole world, but hath lost, or been made to forfeit, himself?
Then shall Aaron bring near the sin-bearing bullock which is for himself, - and put a propitiatory-covering about himself, and about his household.
So Aaron shall bring near the sin-bearing bullock which is for himself, and shall put a propitiatory-covering about himself, and about his household, - and shall slay the sin-bearing bullock which is for himself;
And no human being, shall be in the tent of meeting, when he cometh in to make a covering by propitiation in the holy place, until he goeth out, - so shall he put a propitiatory-covering about himself and about his household and about all the convocation of Israel.
and shall bathe his flesh in water in a holy place, and put on his other garments, - and go forth, and offer his own ascending-sacrifice, and the ascending-sacrifice of the people, so shall he put a propitiatory-covering about himself, and about the people;
If thou art wise, thou art wise for thyself, but, if thou scoff, alone, shalt thou bear it.
Unto a man like thyself, might thy lawlessness reach , and, unto a son of the earth-born, thy righteousness.
For he hath said - By the strength of mine own hand, have I effectually wrought, And by my wisdom - for I have discernment, - That I might remove the bounds of peoples, Yea their treasures, have I plundered That I might lay prostrate as a mighty one the inhabitants;
But, in very deed, I, am full of vigour, with the spirit of Yahweh, and of justice and of valour, - to declare to Jacob, his transgression, and to Israel, his sin.
yourselves, acknowledge that, for my necessities and for those who were with me, hard wrought these hands!
Whether therefore, I, or, they, thus do we proclaim, and, thus did ye believe.
and, from among your own selves, will arise men speaking distorted things, to draw away the disciples after themselves.
Why, moreover, beholdest thou the mote, in the eye of thy brother, - while, the beam in thine own eye, thou dost not consider?
Hypocrite! cast first, out of thine own eye, the beam, - and, then, shalt thou see clearly to cast the mote, out of the eye of thy brother.
Thine own way And thine own doings, Have done these things unto thee, - This thy wickedness, Surely it is bitter, Surely it hath reached unto thy heart.
Is not this what thou wast certain to do for thyself, - in that thou didst forsake Yahweh thy God, when he was leading thee by the way?
his own hands shall bring in the altar-flames of Yahweh, - the fat with the breast, he shall bring it in, the breast, to wave it as a wave-offering before Yahweh.
Therefore I counsel - that there be a general gathering together unto thee of all Israel, from Dan even unto Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude, - and that, thine own presence, be going on in their midst.
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- Oneself (12 instances)