'Own' in the Bible

And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they went back to their [own] country by another route.

Therefore do not be anxious for tomorrow, because tomorrow will be anxious for itself. {Each day has enough trouble of its own.}

And why do you see the speck [that is] in your brother's eye, but do not notice the beam of wood in your [own] eye?

Or how will you say to your brother, 'Allow [me] to remove the speck from your eye,' and behold, the beam of wood [is] in your [own] eye?

Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your [own] eye and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye!

But Jesus said to him, "Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead!"

And getting into a boat, he crossed over and came to his own town.

And they were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his [own] hometown and in his [own] household."

He said, "Yes." And [when he] came into the house, Jesus spoke to him first, saying, "What do you think, Simon? From whom do the kings of the earth collect tolls or taxes--from their own sons, or from foreigners?"

But they paid no attention [and] went away--this one to his own field, that one to his business.

For [it is] like a man going on a journey. He summoned his own slaves and handed over his property to them.

And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his own ability, and he went on a journey immediately.

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the military cloak and put his [own] clothes on him, and led him away in order to crucify [him].

and placed it in his [own] new tomb that he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a large stone to the entrance of the tomb [and] went away.

And he did not speak to them without a parable, but in private he explained everything to his own disciples.

And Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, and among his relatives, and in his [own] household."

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes on him, and they led him out so that they could crucify him.

And everyone went to be registered, each one to his own town.

and a sword will pierce your own soul also, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed!"

And when they had completed everything according to the law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

And he said, "Truly I say to you that no prophet is acceptable in his [own] hometown.

And why do you see the speck [that is] in your brother's eye, but do not notice the beam of wood [that is] in your own eye?

How are you able to say to your brother, "Brother, allow [me] to remove the speck [that is] in your eye," [while] you yourself do not see the beam of wood in your [own] eye? Hypocrite! First remove the beam of wood from your [own] eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck [that is] in your brother's eye!

for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thorn plants, nor are grapes harvested from thorn bushes.

But he said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead! But you go [and] proclaim the kingdom of God."

And he came up [and] bandaged his wounds, pouring on olive oil and wine, and he put him on his own animal [and] brought him to an inn and took care of him.

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his possessions are {safe}.

But when they bring you before the synagogues and the rulers and the authorities, do not be anxious how or what you should speak in your own defense or what you should say,

It is like a mustard seed that a man took [and] sowed in his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How many times I wanted to gather your children together {the way} a hen [gathers] her own brood under [her] wings, and you were not willing!

"If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and furthermore, even his own life, {he cannot be} my disciple.

Whoever does not carry his own cross and {follow} me {cannot be} my disciple.

In the [same] way, therefore, every [one] of you who does not renounce all his own possessions {cannot be} my disciple.

And he set out [and] came to his own father. But [while] he was still a long way away, his father saw him and had compassion, and ran {and embraced him} and kissed him.

And he summoned each one of his own master's debtors [and] said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

And the master praised the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. For the sons of this age are shrewder than the sons of light with regard to their own generation.

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

And summoning ten of his own slaves, he gave them ten minas and said to them, 'Do business {until I come back}.'

He said to him, '{By your own words} I will judge you, wicked slave! You knew that I am a severe man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.

{Therefore make up your minds} not to prepare in advance to speak in your own defense,

He came to his own [things], and his own [people] did not receive him.

This one first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah!" (which is translated "Christ").

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.

So on account of this the Jews were seeking even more to kill him, because he not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God his own Father, [thus] making himself equal with God.

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.

I have come in my Father's name, and you do not accept me. If another should come in his own name, you would accept that one!

The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him--this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

And each one went to his [own] house.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own [nature], because he is a liar and the father {of lies}.

But I do not seek my [own] glory. There is one who seeks and judges!

For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

The hired hand, who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf approaching and abandons the sheep and runs away--and the wolf seizes them and scatters [them]--

"I am the good shepherd, and I know my [own], and my [own] know me,

Now before the feast of Passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he would depart from this world to the Father, [and] having loved [his] own in the world, loved them to the end.

If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, for this [reason] the world hates you.

Behold, an hour is coming--and has come--that you will be scattered each one to his own [home], and you will leave me alone. And I am not alone, because the Father is with me.

Then he said to the disciple, "Behold your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her into his own [home].

Then the disciples went away again to their [own homes].

But he said to them, "It is not for you to know [the] times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority.

And it became known to all who live in Jerusalem, so that that field was called in their own language "Akeldama," that is, "Field of Blood.")

to take the place in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to depart to his own place."

And [when] this sound occurred, the crowd gathered and was in confusion, because each one was hearing them speaking in his own language.

And how do we hear, each one [of us], in {our own native language}?

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabs--we hear them speaking in our [own] languages the great deeds of God!"

And [when he] saw [it], Peter replied to the people, "Men [and] Israelites, why are you astonished at this? Or why are you staring at us, as [if] by our own power or godliness we have made him walk?

And [when they] were released, they went to their own [people] and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

Now the group of those who believed were one heart and soul, and no one said anything of what belonged to him was his own, but all [things] were theirs in common.

and [when] he was abandoned, the daughter of Pharaoh took him [up] and brought him [up] {as her own son}.

For David, [after] serving the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and {was buried with} his fathers, and experienced decay.

who in generations that are past permitted all the nations to go their [own] ways.

for in him we live and move and exist, as even some of {your own} poets have said: 'For we also are {his} offspring.'

And [when] they resisted and reviled [him], he shook out [his] clothes [and] said to them, "Your blood [be] on your [own] heads! I [am] guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!"

But if it is questions concerning a word and names and {your own law}, see to [it] yourselves! I do not wish to be a judge of these [things]."

Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock among which the Holy Spirit has appointed you [as] overseers, to shepherd the church of God which he obtained through the blood of his own [Son].

we said farewell to one another and embarked in the ship, and they returned to their own [homes].

And he came to us and took Paul's belt. Tying up his own feet and hands, he said, "This is what the Holy Spirit says: 'In this way the Jews in Jerusalem will tie up the man whose belt this is, and will deliver [him] into the hands of the Gentiles.'"

[He] ordered the centurion [for] him to be guarded and to have some freedom, and in no way to prevent any of his own [people] [from] serving him.

but they had some issues with him concerning their own religion, and concerning a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

"Now all the Jews know my manner of life from [my] youth, that had taken place from the beginning among my [own] people and in Jerusalem,

and on the third [day] they threw overboard the gear of the ship with their own hands.

But [because] the Jews objected, I was forced to appeal to Caesar (not as [if I] had any [charge] to bring against my [own] people).

So he stayed two whole years in his own rented house, and welcomed all who came to him,

And not being weak in faith, he considered his own body as good as dead, [because he] was approximately a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah's womb.

but God demonstrates his own love for us, [in] that [while] we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

For what [was] impossible for the law, in that it was weak through the flesh, God [did]. [By] sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

Indeed, [he] who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all, how will he not also, together with him, freely give us all [things]?

For ignoring the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are {natural branches} be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you will not be wise {in your own sight}, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in,

Think the same [thing] toward one another; {do not think arrogantly}, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise {in your own sight}.

Who are you, who passes judgment on the domestic slave belonging to someone else? To his own master he stands or falls, and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

One person prefers [one] day over [another] day, and another person regards every day [alike]. Each one must be fully convinced in his own mind.

who risked their own necks for my life, for which not only I am thankful, but also all the churches of the Gentiles;

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own stomach, and by smooth speech and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Now the one who plants and the one who waters are one, but each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

and we toil, working with our own hands. [When we are] reviled, we bless; [when we are] persecuted, we endure;

Flee sexual immorality. Every sin that a person commits is outside his body, but the one who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit [who is] in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

But because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband.