'Own' in the Bible

and a sword will pierce through your own soul also; that the reasonings in many hearts may be revealed."

Then, as soon as they had accomplished all that the Law required, they returned to Galilee to their own town of Nazareth.

"I tell you in solemn truth," He added, "that no Prophet is welcomed among his own people.

"And why look at the splinter in your brother's eye instead of giving careful attention to the beam in your own?

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take that splinter out of your eye,' when all the while you yourself do not see the beam in your own eye? Vain pretender! take the beam out of your own eye first, and then you will see clearly to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

Every tree is known by its own fruit. It is not from thorns that men gather figs, nor from the bramble that they can get a bunch of grapes.

for he loves our nation, and at his own expense he built our synagogue for us."

But the Pharisees and expounders of the Law have frustrated God's purpose as to their own lives, by refusing to be baptized.

Why, what benefit is it to a man to have gained the whole world, but to have lost or forfeited his own self.

For whoever shall have been ashamed of me and my teachings, of him the Son of Man will be ashamed when He comes in His own and the Father's glory and in that of the holy angels.

"Leave the dead," Jesus rejoined, "to bury their own dead; but you must go and announce far and wide the coming of the Kingdom of God."

He went to him, and dressed his wounds with oil and wine and bound them up. Then placing him on his own mule he brought him to an inn, where he bestowed every care on him.

"Whenever a strong man, fully armed and equipped, is guarding his own castle, he enjoys peaceful possession of his property;

"If any one is coming to me who does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes and his own life also, he cannot be a disciple of mine.

No one who does not carry his own cross and come after me can be a disciple of mine.

I see what to do, in order that when I am discharged from the stewardship they may give me a home in their own houses.'

"And the master praised the dishonest steward for his shrewdness; for, in relation to their own contemporaries, the men of this age are shrewder than the sons of Light.

And if you have not been faithful in dealing with that which is not your own, who will give you that which is your own?

"You are they," He said to them, "who boast of their own goodness before men, but God sees your hearts; for that which holds a proud position among men is detestable in God's sight.

Any man who makes it his object to keep his own life safe, will lose it; but whoever loses his life will preserve it.

And will not God avenge the wrongs of His own People who cry aloud to Him day and night, although He seems slow in taking action on their behalf?

"'By your own words,' he replied, 'I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow:

"What need have we of further evidence?" they said; "for we ourselves have heard it from his own lips."

Peter, however, rose and ran to the tomb. Stooping and looking in, he saw nothing but the linen cloths: so he went away to his own home, wondering at what had happened.