'Myself' in the Bible

For this reason neither did I consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word and my slave must be healed.

Look at my hands and my feet, that I am I myself! Touch me and see, because a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as {you see that I have}."

I am able to do nothing from myself. 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.

"If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

If anyone wants to do his will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or I am speaking from myself.

Then Jesus cried out in the temple [courts], teaching and saying, "You both know me and you know where I am from! And I have not come from myself, but the one who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

Jesus answered and said to them, "Even if I testify concerning myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I have come from and where I am going. But you do not know where I have come from or where I am going.

I am the one who testifies concerning myself, and the Father who sent me testifies concerning me."

Then Jesus said, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will recognize that I am [he], and I do nothing from myself, but just as the Father taught me, I say these [things].

Jesus said to them, "If God were your father, you would love me, for I have come forth from God and have come. For I have not come from myself, but that one sent me.

Jesus replied, "If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. The one who glorifies me is my Father, [about] whom you say, 'He is our God.'

And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all [people] to myself."

For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father himself who sent me {has commanded me} what I should say and what I should speak.

And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to myself, so that where I am, you may be also.

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 from myself, but the Father residing in me does his works.

The one who has my commandments and keeps them--that one is the one who loves me. And the one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him."

And for them I sanctify myself, so that [they] themselves also may be sanctified in the truth.

But Peter helped him up, saying, "Get up! I myself am also a man!"

But I consider [my] life [as] worth {nothing} to myself, in order to finish my mission and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify [to] the gospel of the grace of God.

And when the blood of your witness Stephen was being shed, I myself also was standing near and was approving, and was guarding the cloaks of those who were killing him.'

And [when] the governor gestured for him to speak, Paul replied, "[Because I] know you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I defend myself cheerfully [with respect to] the things concerning myself.

{For this reason} also myself {always} do my best to have a clear conscience toward God and people.

So Agrippa [said] to Festus, "I want to hear the man myself also." "Tomorrow," he said, "you will hear him."

"Concerning all [the things] of which I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa, I consider myself fortunate [that] before you I am about to defend myself today,

Indeed, I myself thought it was necessary to do many [things] opposed to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,

Thanks [be] to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself with my mind am enslaved to the law of God, but with my flesh [I am enslaved] to the law of sin.

For I could wish myself to be accursed from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my fellow countrymen according to the flesh,

But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal."

Now I myself also am convinced about you, my brothers, that [you] yourselves also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to instruct one another.

in order that you may welcome her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and help her in whatever task she may have need from you, for she herself also has been a helper of many, even me myself.

But to me it is a very little matter that I be judged by you or by a human court, but I do not [even] judge myself.

For I am conscious of nothing against myself, but not by this am I vindicated. But the one who judges me is the Lord.

Now I have applied these things, brothers, to myself and Apollos for your sake, in order that in us you may learn not [to go] beyond what is written, lest someone be inflated with pride on behalf of one [person] against the other.

I wish all people could be like myself, but each one has his own gift from God, one in this way and another in that way.

For [although I] am free from all [people], I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more.

I have become like a Jew to the Jews, in order that I may gain the Jews. To those under the law [I became] as under the law ([although I] myself am not under the law) in order that I may gain those under the law.

But I discipline my body and subjugate [it], lest somehow [after] preaching to others, myself should become disqualified.

For I have decided this for myself, not to come to you again in sorrow.

Now I, Paul, appeal to you myself by the humility and gentleness of Christ, who {when I am present in person} [am] humble among you, but [when I] am absent am bold toward you--

For I consider myself in no way to be inferior to the preeminent apostles.

Or did I commit a sin [by] humbling myself in order that you may be exalted, because I proclaimed the gospel of God to you without payment?

And [when I] was present with you and was in need, I did not burden anyone, for the brothers who came from Macedonia supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will keep [myself from being a burden].

Are they servants of Christ?--I am speaking as though I were beside myself--I [am] more so, with far greater labors, with far more imprisonments, with beatings to a much greater degree, in [danger of] death many times.

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

even because of the extraordinary degree of the revelations. Therefore, so that I would not exalt myself, a thorn in the flesh was given to me, a messenger of Satan, in order that it would torment me so that I would not exalt myself.

{For in what respect are you made worse off} more than the rest of the churches, except that I myself was not a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!

For if I build up again these [things] which I destroyed, I show myself [to be] a transgressor.

And I am convinced in the Lord that I myself will arrive shortly also.

Brothers, I do not consider myself to have laid hold of [it]. But [I do] one [thing], forgetting the things behind and straining toward the things ahead,