'Themselves' in the Bible

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God's redemptive plan that operates by faith.

For those who have served well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and great boldness in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.

in case I am delayed, to let you know how people ought to conduct themselves in the household of God, because it is the church of the living God, the support and bulwark of the truth.

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the later times some will desert the faith and occupy themselves with deceiving spirits and demonic teachings,

For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.

In this way they will save up a treasure for themselves as a firm foundation for the future and so lay hold of what is truly life.