'Own' in the Bible

Indeed, as a result of him the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed -- and a sword will pierce your own soul as well!"

So when Joseph and Mary had performed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,' while you yourself don't see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorns, nor are grapes picked from brambles.

and Joanna the wife of Cuza (Herod's household manager), Susanna, and many others who provided for them out of their own resources.

But Jesus said to him, "Let the dead bury their own dead, but as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God."

He went up 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.

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are safe.

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

In the same way therefore not one of you can be my disciple if he does not renounce all his own possessions.

And if you haven't been trustworthy with someone else's property, who will give you your own?

And Peter said, "Look, we have left everything we own to follow you!"

The king said to him, 'I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn't deposit and reaping what I didn't sow?

Thus they were unable in the presence of the people to trap him with his own words. And stunned by his answer, they fell silent.

Then they said, "Why do we need further testimony? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips!"

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated Christ).

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

So Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

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

(For not even his own brothers believed in him.)

If anyone wants to do God's will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, "You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,

[[And each one departed to his own house.

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

Jesus replied, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

You people are from your father the devil, and you want to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not uphold the truth, because there is no truth in him. Whenever he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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

The hired hand, who is not a shepherd and does not own sheep, sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep and runs away. So the wolf attacks the sheep and scatters them.

"I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me --

No one takes it away from me, but 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 commandment I received from my Father."

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

Just before the Passover feast, Jesus knew that his time had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now loved them to the very end.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.

If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you do not belong to the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this reason the world hates you.

But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak on his own authority, but will speak whatever he hears, and will tell you what is to come.

Look, a time is coming -- and has come -- when you will be scattered, each one to his own home, and I will be left alone. Yet I am not alone, because my Father is with me.

Pilate told them, "Take him yourselves and pass judgment on him according to your own law!" The Jewish leaders replied, "We cannot legally put anyone to death."

Jesus replied, "Are you saying this on your own initiative, or have others told you about me?"

Pilate answered, "I am not a Jew, am I? Your own people and your chief priests handed you over to me. What have you done?"

and carrying his own cross he went out to the place called "The Place of the Skull" (called in Aramaic Golgotha).

He then said to his disciple, "Look, here is your mother!" From that very time the disciple took her into his own home.

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,

Without being weak in faith, he considered his own body as dead (because he was about one hundred years old) and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Indeed, he who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all -- how will he not also, along with him, freely give us all things?

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Who are you to pass judgment on another's servant? Before his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

One person regards one day holier than other days, and another regards them all alike. Each must be fully convinced in his own mind.

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only I, but all the churches of the Gentiles are grateful to them.

For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.

We do hard work, toiling with our own hands. When we are verbally abused, we respond with a blessing, when persecuted, we endure,

Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin a person commits is outside of the body" -- but the immoral person sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

But because of immoralities, each man should have relations with his own wife and each woman with her own husband.

It is not the wife who has the rights to her own body, but the husband. In the same way, it is not the husband who has the rights to his own body, but the wife.

I wish that everyone was as I am. But each has his own gift from God, one this way, another that.

But the man who is firm in his commitment, and is under no necessity but has control over his will, and has decided in his own mind to keep his own virgin, does well.

So then, the one who marries his own virgin does well, but the one who does not, does better.

Who ever serves in the army at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Who tends a flock and does not consume its milk?

Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.

just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

For when it is time to eat, everyone proceeds with his own supper. One is hungry and another becomes drunk.

If I give away everything I own, and if I give over my body in order to boast, but do not have love, I receive no benefit.