'Own' in the Bible

And being divinely instructed in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

Be not careful therefore for the morrow, for the morrow shall be careful about itself. Sufficient to the day is its own evil.

But Jesus said to him, Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.

And going on board the ship, he passed over and came to his own city.

And having come into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, Whence has this man this wisdom and these works of power?

He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus anticipated him, saying, What dost thou think, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive custom or tribute? from their own sons or from strangers?

is it not lawful for me to do what I will in my own affairs? Is thine eye evil because I am good?

But a very great crowd strewed their own garments on the way, and others kept cutting down branches from the trees and strewing them on the way.

But they made light of it, and went, one to his own land, and another to his commerce.

For it is as if a man going away out of a country called his own bondmen and delivered to them his substance.

And when they had mocked him, they took the cloak off him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him away to crucify.

And he suffered him not, but says to him, Go to thine home to thine own people, and tell them how great things the Lord has done for thee, and has had mercy on thee.

And he went out thence and came to his own country, and his disciples follow him.

But Jesus said to them, A prophet is not despised save in his own country, and among his kinsmen, and in his own house.

And when they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own clothes on him; and they lead him out that they may crucify him.

And all went to be inscribed in the census roll, each to his own city:

(and even a sword shall go through thine own soul;) so that the thoughts may be revealed from many hearts.

And when they had completed all things according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee to their own city Nazareth.

And he said to them, Ye will surely say to me this parable, Physician, heal thyself; whatsoever we have heard has taken place in Capernaum do here also in thine own country.

And he said, Verily I say to you, that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.

But why lookest thou on the mote which is in the eye of thy brother, but perceivest not the beam which is in thine own eye?

for every tree is known by its own fruit, for figs are not gathered from thorns, nor grapes vintaged from a bramble.

But Jesus said to him, Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, but do thou go and announce the kingdom of God.

and came up to him and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and having put him on his own beast, took him to the inn and took care of him.

When the strong man armed keeps his own house, his goods are in peace;

and ye like men who wait their own lord whenever he may leave the wedding, that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.

But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared himself nor done his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, he cannot be my disciple;

Thus then every one of you who forsakes not all that is his own cannot be my disciple.

and having found it, he lays it upon his own shoulders, rejoicing;

And he rose up and went to his own father. But while he was yet a long way off, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and ran, and fell upon his neck, and covered him with kisses.

And having called to him each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?

And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?

And having called his own ten bondmen, he gave to them ten minas, and said to them, Trade while I am coming.

And they led it to Jesus; and having cast their own garments on the colt, they put Jesus on it.

when they already sprout, ye know of your own selves, on looking at them, that already the summer is near.

He came to his own, and his own received him not;

He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him, We have found the Messias (which being interpreted is Christ).

for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

For this therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he had not only violated the sabbath, but also said that God was his own Father, making himself equal with God.

I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not; if another come in his own name, him ye will receive.

He that speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he that seeks the glory of him that has sent him, he is true, and unrighteousness is not in him.

Ye are of the devil, as your father, and ye desire to do the lusts of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks falsehood, he speaks of what is his own; for he is a liar and its father:

But I do not seek my own glory: there is he that seeks and judges.

To him the porter opens; and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

When he has put forth all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

but he who serves for wages, and who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf seizes them and scatters the sheep.

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.

Behold, the hour is coming, and has come, that ye shall be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone; and yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

Then he says unto the disciple, Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

The disciples therefore went away again to their own home.

And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority;

And it was known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own dialect Aceldama; that is, field of blood.)

to receive the lot of this service and apostleship, from which Judas transgressing fell to go to his own place.

But the rumour of this having spread, the multitude came together and were confounded, because each one heard them speaking in his own dialect.

and how do we hear them each in our own dialect in which we have been born,

Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our own tongues the great things of God?

And Peter, seeing it, answered the people, Men of Israel, why are ye astonished at this? or why do ye gaze on us as if we had by our own power or piety made him to walk?

And having been let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said to them.

And the heart and soul of the multitude of those that had believed were one, and not one said that anything of what he possessed was his own, but all things were common to them;

While it remained did it not remain to thee? and sold, was it not in thine own power? Why is it that thou hast purposed this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.

And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice to the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands.

For David indeed, having in his own generation ministered to the will of God, fell asleep, and was added to his fathers and saw corruption.

who in the past generations suffered all the nations to go in their own ways,

But as they opposed and spoke injuriously, he shook his clothes, and said to them, Your blood be upon your own head: I am pure; from henceforth I will go to the nations.

Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly of God, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.

and coming to us and taking the girdle of Paul, and having bound his own hands and feet, said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, The man whose this girdle is shall the Jews thus bind in Jerusalem, and deliver him up into the hands of the Gentiles.

but had against him certain questions of their own system of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be living.

And often punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme. And, being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to cities out of our own land.

and on the third day with their own hands they cast away the ship furniture.

And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging, and received all who came to him,

and not being weak in faith, he considered not his own body already become dead, being about a hundred years old, and the deadening of Sarah's womb,

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise.

For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, having sent his own Son, in likeness of flesh of sin, and for sin, has condemned sin in the flesh,

He who, yea, has not spared his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him grant us all things?

Brethren, the delight of my own heart and my supplication which I address to God for them is for salvation.

For they, being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

For if thou hast been cut out of the olive tree wild by nature, and, contrary to nature, hast been grafted into the good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who are according to nature be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of this mystery, that ye may not be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the nations be come in;

Have the same respect one for another, not minding high things, but going along with the lowly: be not wise in your own eyes:

Who art thou that judgest the servant of another? to his own master he stands or falls. And he shall be made to stand; for the Lord is able to make him stand.

One man esteems day more than day; another esteems every day alike. Let each be fully persuaded in his own mind.

(who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not I only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)

For such serve not our Lord Christ, but their own belly, and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

that no one may say that I have baptised unto my own name.

But the planter and the waterer are one; but each shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

and labour, working with our own hands. Railed at, we bless; persecuted, we suffer it;

Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have of God; and ye are not your own?

but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband.

The wife has not authority over her own body, but the husband: in like manner also the husband has not authority over his own body, but the wife.

Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

and they that use the world, as not disposing of it as their own; for the fashion of this world passes.

But I say this for your own profit; not that I may set a snare before you, but for what is seemly, and waiting on the Lord without distraction.

But he who stands firm in his heart, having no need, but has authority over his own will, and has judged this in his heart to keep his own virginity, he does well.

Who ever carries on war at his own charges? who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? or who herds a flock and does not eat of the milk of the flock?

For if I do this voluntarily, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with an administration.