'Ourselves' in the Bible

for we, on our part, cannot stop telling [people] about what we have seen and heard.”

But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word.

We ourselves are witnesses of everything He did in both the Judean country and in Jerusalem, yet they killed Him by hanging Him on a tree.

And we ourselves proclaim to you the good news of the promise that was made to our ancestors.

Now then, why are you testing God by placing a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to endure?

We sailed from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread (Passover week), and within five days we reached them at Troas, where we stayed for seven days.

After we tore ourselves away from them and set sail, we came by a direct route to Cos, the next day to Rhodes, and from there to Patara.

And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.

So now you, along with the Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court), notify the commander to bring Paul down to you, as if you were going to investigate his case more thoroughly. But we are ready to kill him before he comes near [the place].”

Saying, Friends, I see that this journey will be one of great damage and loss, not only to the goods and the ship, but to ourselves.

and when the ship was caught in it and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and let ourselves be driven along.

But running under the lee of a certain island called Clauda, we were with difficulty able to make ourselves masters of the boat;