'Own' in the Bible

On the contrary, in our relations to you we showed ourselves as gentle as a mother is when she tenderly nurses her own children.

For you know that we acted towards every one of you as a father does towards his own children, encouraging and cheering you,

and imploring you to live lives worthy of fellowship with God who is inviting you to share His own Kingship and glory.

for they still try to prevent our preaching to the Gentiles so that they may find salvation. They thus continually fill up the measure of their own sins, and God's anger in its severest form has overtaken them.

that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace, every one minding his own business and working with his hands, as we ordered you to do:

For this we declare to you on the Lord's own authority--that we who are alive and continue on earth until the Coming of the Lord, shall certainly not forestall those who shall have previously passed away.