'Private' in the Bible

But when you pray, go into your private room, shut your door, and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

“If your brother sins against you, go and rebuke him in private. If he listens to you, you have won your brother.

He did not tell them anything without using a parable, though he explained everything to his disciples in private.

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support out of their private means.

While He was praying in private and His disciples were with Him, He asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”

Then turning to his disciples in private, he told them, "How blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Having said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, saying in private, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.”

And, day by day, attending constantly in the Temple with one accord, and breaking bread in private houses, they took their meals with great happiness and single-heartedness,

But they did not desist from teaching every day, in the Temple or in private houses, and telling the Good News about Jesus, the Christ.

And the chiliarch having taken him by the hand, and having gone apart in private, inquired, What is it that thou hast to report to me?

I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is not one wise man among you who [is governed by integrity and] will be able and competent to decide [private disputes] between his fellow believers,

I went in response to a revelation, and in a private meeting with the reputed leaders, I explained to them the gospel that I'm proclaiming to the gentiles. I did this because I was afraid that I was running or had run my life's race for nothing.

Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.

Until I come, devote yourself to public reading [of Scripture], to preaching and to teaching [the sound doctrine of God’s word].

Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.