'Own' in the Bible

But He told him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and spread the news of the kingdom of God.”

He went over to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his own father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, and even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.

Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.

“The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted astutely. For the sons of this age are more astute than the sons of light in dealing with their own people.

And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own?

He came to His own,and His own people did not receive Him.

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which means “Anointed One”),

Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

This is why the Jews began trying all the more to kill Him: Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

Then Jesus replied, “I assure you: The Son is not able to do anything on His own, but only what He sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does these things in the same way.

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

I have come in My Father’s name, yet you don’t accept Me. If someone else comes in his own name, you will accept him.

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

The one who speaks for himself seeks his own glory. But He who seeks the glory of the One who sent Him is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

As He was teaching in the temple complex, Jesus cried out, “You know Me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on My own, but the One who sent Me is true. You don’t know Him;

So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing on My own. But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, because I came from God and I am here. For I didn’t come on My own, but He sent Me.

You are of your father the Devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of liars.

The doorkeeper opens it for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought all his own outside, he goes ahead of them. The sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.

“I am the good shepherd. I know My own sheep, and they know Me,

No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down on My own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from My Father.”

He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation,

For I have not spoken on My own, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a command as to what I should say and what I should speak.

Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that His hour had come to depart from this world to the Father. Having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Don’t you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me? The words I speak to you I do not speak on My own. The Father who lives in Me does His works.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you.

When the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak whatever He hears. He will also declare to you what is to come.

Look: An hour is coming, and has come, when each of you will be scattered to his own home, and you will leave Me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

Jesus answered, “Are you asking this on your own, or have others told you about Me?”

“I’m not a Jew, am I?” Pilate replied. “Your own nation and the chief priests handed You over to me. What have You done?”

Carrying His own cross, He went out to what is called Skull Place, which in Hebrew is called Golgotha.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or periods that the Father has set by His own authority.

This became known to all the residents of Jerusalem, so that in their own language that field is called Hakeldama (that is, Field of Blood).

to take the place in this apostolic service that Judas left to go to his own place.”

When this sound occurred, a crowd came together and was confused because each one heard them speaking in his own language.

How is it that each of us can hear in our own native language?

Cretans and Arabs—we hear them speaking the magnificent acts of God in our own languages.”

When Peter saw this, he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this? Or why do you stare at us, as though we had made him walk by our own power or godliness?

After they were released, they went to their own people and reported everything the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Now the large group of those who believed were of one heart and mind, and no one said that any of his possessions was his own, but instead they held everything in common.

and when he was left outside, Pharaoh’s daughter adopted and raised him as her own son.

Peter said to him, “Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and make your bed,” and immediately he got up.

For David, after serving his own generation in God’s plan, fell asleep, was buried with his fathers, and decayed.

In past generations He allowed all the nations to go their own way,

For in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook his robe and told them, “Your blood is on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

But if these are questions about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves. I don’t want to be a judge of such things.”

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock that the Holy Spirit has appointed you to as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which He purchased with His own blood.

He came to us, took Paul’s belt, tied his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into Gentile hands.’”

Instead they had some disagreements with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, a dead man Paul claimed to be alive.

“All the Jews know my way of life from my youth, which was spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem.

On the third day, they threw the ship’s gear overboard with their own hands.

Then he stayed two whole years in his own rented house. And he welcomed all who visited him,

The males in the same way also left natural relations with females and were inflamed in their lust for one another. Males committed shameless acts with males and received in their own persons the appropriate penalty of their error.

He considered his own body to be already dead (since he was about 100 years old) and also considered the deadness of Sarah’s womb, without weakening in the faith.

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!

What the law could not do since it was limited by the flesh, God did. He condemned sin in the flesh by sending His own Son in flesh like ours under sin’s domain, and as a sin offering,

He did not even spare His own Sonbut offered Him up for us all;how will He not also with Him grant us everything?

Because they disregarded the righteousness from God and attempted to establish their own righteousness, they have not submitted themselves to God’s righteousness.

if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.

For if you were cut off from your native wild olive and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?

Be in agreement with one another. Do not be proud; instead, associate with the humble. Do not be wise in your own estimation.

Who are you to criticize another’s household slave? Before his own Lord he stands or falls. And he will stand. For the Lord is able to make him stand.

One person considers one day to be above another day. Someone else considers every day to be the same. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind.

who risked their own necks for my life. Not only do I thank them, but so do all the Gentile churches.

for such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites. They deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting with smooth talk and flattering words.

Now the one planting and the one watering are one in purpose, and each will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

we labor, working with our own hands. When we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it;

Run from sexual immorality! “Every sin a person can commit is outside the body.” On the contrary, the person who is sexually immoral sins against his own body.

Don’t you know that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

A wife does not have the right over her own body, but her husband does. In the same way, a husband does not have the right over his own body, but his wife does.

I wish that all people were just like me. But each has his own gift from God, one person in this way and another in that way.

Now I am saying this for your own benefit, not to put a restraint on you, but because of what is proper and so that you may be devoted to the Lord without distraction.

But he who stands firm in his heart (who is under no compulsion, but has control over his own will) and has decided in his heart to keep his own virgin, will do well.

Who ever goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat its fruit? Or who shepherds a flock and does not drink the milk from the flock?

No one should seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

I do not mean your own conscience, but the other person’s. For why is my freedom judged by another person’s conscience?

just as I also try to please all people in all things, not seeking my own profit, but the profit of many, so that they may be saved. >

For at the meal, each one eats his own supper ahead of others. So one person is hungry while another gets drunk!

And if they want to learn something, they should ask their own husbands at home, for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church meeting.

But each in his own order: Christ, the firstfruits; afterward, at His coming, those who belong to Christ.

But God gives it a body as He wants, and to each of the seeds its own body.

This greeting is in my own hand—Paul.

You are not limited by us, but you are limited by your own affections.

I testify that, on their own, according to their ability and beyond their ability,

For he accepted our urging and, being very diligent, went out to you by his own choice.

On frequent journeys, I faceddangers from rivers,dangers from robbers,dangers from my own people,dangers from the Gentiles,dangers in the city,dangers in the open country,dangers on the sea,and dangers among false brothers;

But each person should examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in respect to someone else.

For each person will have to carry his own load.

Look at what large letters I use as I write to you in my own handwriting.

The thief must no longer steal. Instead, he must do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share with anyone in need.

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord,

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

Everyone should look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.

Make your own attitude that of Christ Jesus,