'Own' in the Bible

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep, and scatters them.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I'm known by my own;

Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.

Behold, the time is coming, yes, and has now come, that you will be scattered, everyone to his own place, and you will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Now, Father, glorify me with your own self with the glory which I had with you before the world existed.

Pilate answered, "I'm not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered you to me. What have you done?"

Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" From that hour, the disciple took her to his own home.

So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

He said to them, "It isn't for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

to take part in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas fell away, that he might go to his own place."

When this sound was heard, the multitude came together, and were bewildered, because everyone heard them speaking in his own language.

How do we hear, everyone in our own native language?

When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?

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

The multitude of those who believed were of one heart and soul. Not one of them claimed that anything of the things which he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

While you kept it, didn't it remain your own? After it was sold, wasn't it in your power? How is it that you have conceived this thing in your heart? You haven't lied to men, but to God."

When he was thrown out, Pharaoh's daughter took him up, and reared him as her own son.

For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid with his fathers, and saw decay.

who in the generations gone by allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

'For in him we live, and move, and have our being.' As some of your own poets have said, 'For we are also his offspring.'

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves. For I don't want to be a judge of these matters."

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

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Coming to us, and taking Paul's belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, "Thus says the Holy Spirit: 'So will the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

"Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

On the third day, they threw out the ship's tackle with their own hands.

Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and received all who were coming to him,

Without being weakened in faith, he didn't consider his own body, already having been worn out, (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn't subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

For if you were cut out of that which is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree, how much more will these, which are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

Be of the same mind one toward another. Don't set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble. Don't be wise in your own conceits.

Who are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

that you receive her in the Lord, in a way worthy of the saints, and that you assist her in whatever matter she may need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, and of my own self.

who for my life, laid down their own necks; to whom not only I give thanks, but also all the assemblies of the Gentiles.

For those who are such don't serve our Lord, Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by their smooth and flattering speech, they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

so that no one should say that I had baptized you into my own name.

Now he who plants and he who waters are the same, but each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self.

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.

This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

So then both he who gives his own virgin in marriage does well, and he who doesn't give her in marriage does better.

What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn't eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn't drink from the flock's milk?

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward. But if not of my own will, I have a stewardship entrusted to me.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other's conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

even as I also please all men in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of the many, that they may be saved.

For in your eating each one takes his own supper first. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home, for it is shameful for a woman to chatter in the assembly.

But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, then those who are Christ's, at his coming.

But God gives it a body even as it pleased him, and to each seed a body of its own.

This greeting is by me, Paul, with my own hand.

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

For according to their power, I testify, yes and beyond their power, they gave of their own accord,

This was not as we had hoped, but first they gave their own selves to the Lord, and to us through the will of God.

For he indeed accepted our exhortation, but being himself very earnest, he went out to you of his own accord.

On behalf of such a one I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except in my weaknesses.

Test your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don't you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? -- unless indeed you are disqualified.

I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

For each man will bear his own burden.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

See with what large letters I write to you with my own hand.

who is a pledge of our inheritance, to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of his glory.

Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

But as the assembly is subject to Christ, so let the wives also be to their own husbands in everything.

Even so husbands also ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord also does the assembly;

Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

each of you not just looking to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

So then, my beloved, even as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith;

The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.

Even so, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you, not the Good News of God only, but also our own souls, because you had become very dear to us.

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews;

who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

Now you know what is restraining him, to the end that he may be revealed in his own season.