'Own' in the Bible

He told them, "You are not permitted to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.

This became known to all who lived in Jerusalem, so that in their own language they called that field Hakeldama, that is, "Field of Blood.")

to assume the task of this service and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place."

When this sound occurred, a crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

And how is it that each one of us hears them in our own native language?

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs -- we hear them speaking in our own languages about the great deeds God has done!"

When Peter saw this, he declared to the people, "Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Why do you stare at us as if we had made this man walk by our own power or piety?

The group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but everything was held in common.

and when he had been abandoned, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

He thought his own people would understand that God was delivering them through him, but they did not understand.

Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus the Christ heals you. Get up and make your own bed!" And immediately he got up.

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

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

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,' says the Lord, who makes these things

For in him we live and move about and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we too are his offspring.'

When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!"

but since it concerns points of disagreement about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I will not be a judge of these things!"

Watch out for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God that he obtained with the blood of his own Son.

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away after them.

we said farewell to one another. Then we went aboard the ship, and they returned to their own homes.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, tied his own hands and feet with it, and said, "The Holy Spirit says this: 'This is the way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will hand him over to the Gentiles.'"

Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

Now all the Jews know the way I lived from my youth, spending my life from the beginning among my own people and in Jerusalem.

I will rescue you from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you

and on the third day they threw the ship's gear overboard with their own hands.

But when the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar -- not that I had some charge to bring against my own people.

Paul lived there two whole years in his own rented quarters and welcomed all who came to him,