'Myself' in the Bible
for this reason I did not even consider myself worthy to come to You, but just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
Herod said, “I myself had John beheaded; but who is this man about whom I hear such things?” And he kept trying to see Him.
See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”
But He answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I Myself am working.”
“If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not true.
For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and believes in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.”
Jesus answered them, “Did I Myself not choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is a devil?”
If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.
Then Jesus cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know Me and know where I am from; and I have not come of Myself, but He who sent Me is true, whom you do not know.
Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I testify about Myself, My testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
I am He who testifies about Myself, and the Father who sent Me testifies about Me.”
Jesus answered, “If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, ‘He is our God’;
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to Myself.”
If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, there you may be also.
He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me; and he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and will disclose Myself to him.”
For their sakes I sanctify Myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.
‘And whatever nation to which they will be in bondage I Myself will judge,’ said God, ‘and after that they will come out and serve Me in this place.’
But get up, go downstairs and accompany them without misgivings, for I have sent them Myself.”
But I do not consider my life of any account as dear to myself, so that I may finish my course and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify solemnly of the gospel of the grace of God.
Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he *said, “you shall hear him.”
“In regard to all the things of which I am accused by the Jews, I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that I am about to make my defense before you today;
“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin.
For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
But what is the divine response to him? “I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”
And concerning you, my brethren, I myself also am convinced that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able also to admonish one another.
that you receive her in the Lord in a manner worthy of the saints, and that you help her in whatever matter she may have need of you; for she herself has also been a helper of many, and of myself as well.
But to me it is a very small thing that I may be examined by you, or by any human court; in fact, I do not even examine myself.
For I am conscious of nothing against myself, yet I am not by this acquitted; but the one who examines me is the Lord.
Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.
Yet I wish that all men were even as I myself am. However, each man has his own gift from God, one in this manner, and another in that.
For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.
To the Jews I became as a Jew, so that I might win Jews; to those who are under the Law, as under the Law though not being myself under the Law, so that I might win those who are under the Law;
but I discipline my body and make it my slave, so that, after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified.
Now I, Paul, myself urge you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ—I who am meek when face to face with you, but bold toward you when absent!
For I consider myself not in the least inferior to the most eminent apostles.
Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you without charge?
and when I was present with you and was in need, I was not a burden to anyone; for when the brethren came from Macedonia they fully supplied my need, and in everything I kept myself from being a burden to you, and will continue to do so.
To my shame I must say that we have been weak by comparison.But in whatever respect anyone else is bold—I speak in foolishness—I am just as bold myself.
Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me—to keep me from exalting myself!
For in what respect were you treated as inferior to the rest of the churches, except that I myself did not become a burden to you? Forgive me this wrong!
But be that as it may, I did not burden you myself; nevertheless, crafty fellow that I am, I took you in by deceit.
For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.
and I trust in the Lord that I myself also will be coming shortly.
although I myself might have confidence even in the flesh. If anyone else has a mind to put confidence in the flesh, I far more:
Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead,