'Own' in the Bible

And having been warned by God in a dream not to return to Herod, the magi left for their own country by another way.

“So do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ and behold, the log is in your own eye?

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.

But Jesus *said to him, “Follow Me, and allow the dead to bury their own dead.”

Getting into a boat, Jesus crossed over the sea and came to His own city.

And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and in his own household.”

Is it not lawful for me to do what I wish with what is my own? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’

But they paid no attention and went their way, one to his own farm, another to his business,

“For it is just like a man about to go on a journey, who called his own slaves and entrusted his possessions to them.

To one he gave five talents, to another, two, and to another, one, each according to his own ability; and he went on his journey.

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.

When His own people heard of this, they went out to take custody of Him; for they were saying, “He has lost His senses.”

and He did not speak to them without a parable; but He was explaining everything privately to His own disciples.

They began laughing at Him. But putting them all out, He *took along the child’s father and mother and His own companions, and *entered the room where the child was.

Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his hometown and among his own relatives and in his own household.”

And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city.

and a sword will pierce even your own soul—to the end that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

When they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned to Galilee, to their own city of Nazareth.

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.

For each tree is known by its own fruit. For men do not gather figs from thorns, nor do they pick grapes from a briar bush.

But He said to him, “Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.”

and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.

When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are undisturbed.

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your soul is required of you; and now who will own what you have prepared?’

“And why do you not even on your own initiative judge what is right?

It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and threw into his own garden; and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air nested in its branches.”

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

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

So then, none of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions.

And his master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this age are more shrewd in relation to their own kind than the sons of light.

And if you have not been faithful in the use of that which is another’s, who will give you that which is your own?

Peter said, “Behold, we have left our own homes and followed You.”

He *said to him, ‘By your own words I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?

Then they said, “What further need do we have of testimony? For we have heard it ourselves from His own mouth.”

He came to His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.

He *found first his own brother Simon and *said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which translated means Christ).

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

For this reason therefore the Jews were seeking all the more to kill Him, because He not only was breaking the Sabbath, but also was calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

“I can do nothing on My own initiative. As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

I have come in My Father’s name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.

For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

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

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he puts forth all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,

No one has taken it away from Me, but I lay it down on My own initiative. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This commandment I received from My Father.”

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

For I did not speak on My own initiative, but the Father Himself who sent Me has given Me a commandment as to what to say and what to speak.

Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

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 on My own initiative, but the Father abiding in Me does His works.

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, because of this the world hates you.

But when He, the Spirit of truth, comes, He will guide you into all the truth; for He will not speak on His own initiative, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will disclose to you what is to come.

Behold, an hour is coming, and has already come, for you to be scattered, each to his own home, and to leave Me alone; and yet I am not alone, because the Father is with Me.

Jesus answered, “Are you saying this on your own initiative, or did others tell you about Me?”

Pilate answered, “I am not a Jew, am I? Your own nation and the chief priests delivered You to me; what have You done?”

They took Jesus, therefore, and He went out, bearing His own cross, to the place called the Place of a Skull, which is called in Hebrew, Golgotha.

Then He *said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” From that hour the disciple took her into his own household.

So the disciples went away again to their own homes.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;

And it became known to all who were living in Jerusalem; so that in their own language that field was called Hakeldama, that is, Field of Blood.)

to occupy this ministry and apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”

And when this sound occurred, the crowd came together, and were bewildered because each one of them was hearing them speak in his own language.

And how is it that we each hear them in our own language to which we were born?

Cretans and Arabs—we hear them in our own tongues speaking of the mighty deeds of God.”

But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

When they had been released, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and the elders had said to them.

And the congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul; and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but all things were common property to them.

While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”

And after he had been set outside, Pharaoh’s daughter took him away and nurtured him as her own son.

For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep, and was laid among his fathers and underwent decay;

In the generations gone by He 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 children.’

But when they resisted and blasphemed, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters.”

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

and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

You yourselves know that these hands ministered to my own needs and to the men who were with me.

And coming to us, he took Paul’s belt and bound his own feet and hands, and said, “This is what the Holy Spirit says: ‘In this way the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt and deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’”

And he even tried to desecrate the temple; and then we arrested him. [We wanted to judge him according to our own Law.

while Paul said in his own defense, “I have committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

“So then, all Jews know my manner of life from my youth up, which from the beginning was spent among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

and on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands.

And he stayed two full years in his own rented quarters and was welcoming all who came to him,

and in the same way also the men abandoned the natural function of the woman and burned in their desire toward one another, men with men committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.

Without becoming weak in faith he contemplated his own body, now as good as dead since he was about a hundred years old, and the deadness of Sarah’s womb;

But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh,

For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it, in hope

He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?

For not knowing about God’s righteousness 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 were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

Be of the same mind toward one another; do not be haughty in mind, but associate with the lowly. Do not be wise in your own estimation.