And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.

“Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.

Why do you see 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,’ when there is the log 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.

And Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

Jesus Heals a Paralytic

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

And a person's enemies will be those of his own household.

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.”

And when evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’

When therefore the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”

Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.

And when they had mocked him, they stripped him of the robe and put his own clothes on him and led him away to crucify him.

and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock. And he rolled a great stone to the entrance of the tomb and went away.

He did not speak to them without a parable, but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.

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

What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and destroy the tenants and give the vineyard to others.

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 to crucify him.

And all went to be registered, each to his own town.

(and a sword will pierce through your own soul also), so that thoughts from many hearts may be revealed.”

The Return to Nazareth

And when they had performed everything according to the Law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own town of Nazareth.

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

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 figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.

And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

He went to him and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he set 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 goods are safe;

“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 bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

The master commended the dishonest manager for his shrewdness. For the sons of this world are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than the sons of light.

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

He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

And as they were untying the colt, its owners said to them, “Why are you untying the colt?”

Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.’

And they threw him out of the vineyard and killed him. What then will the owner of the vineyard do to them?

Then they said, “What further testimony do we need? We have heard it ourselves from his own lips.”

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

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

(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)

Jesus Is Equal with God

This was why the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God his own Father, making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, that the Son does likewise.

Witnesses to Jesus

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not 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.

If anyone's will is to do God's will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.

The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

So Jesus proclaimed, as he taught in the temple, “You know me, and you know where I come from. But I have not come of my own accord. He who sent me is true, and him you do not know.

[The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11.]

The Woman Caught in Adultery

[[They went each to his own house,

So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.

Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I came not of my own accord, but he sent me.

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.

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

When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.

I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me,

No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up again. This charge I have received from my Father.”

He did not say this of his own accord, but being high priest that year he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

For I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to speak.

Jesus Washes the Disciples' Feet

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to 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 authority, but the Father who dwells in me does his works.

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore 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 authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.

Behold, the hour is coming, indeed it has come, when you will be scattered, each to his own home, and will leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, for the Father is with me.

And now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory that I had with you before the world existed.

Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put anyone to death.”

Jesus answered, “Do you say this of your own accord, or did others say it to you about me?”

Pilate answered, “Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?”

and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.

Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother!” And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.

He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.

And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the 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 go to his own place.”

And at this sound the multitude came together, and they were bewildered, because each one was hearing them speak in his own language.

And how is it that we hear, each of us in his own native language?

both Jews and proselytes, Cretans and Arabians—we hear them telling in our own tongues the mighty works of God.”

And when Peter saw it he addressed the people: “Men of Israel, why do you wonder at this, or why do you stare at us, as though by our own power or piety we have made him walk?

They Had Everything in Common

Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common.

There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold

While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”

and when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

When they had passed the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate leading into the city. It opened for them of its own accord, and they went out and went along one street, and immediately the angel left him.

For David, after he had served the purpose of God in his own generation, fell asleep and was laid with his fathers and saw corruption,

In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.

Paul and Silas in Prison

As we were going to the place of prayer, we were met by a slave girl who had a spirit of divination and brought her owners much gain by fortune-telling.

But when her owners saw that their hope of gain was gone, they seized Paul and Silas and dragged them into the marketplace before the rulers.

for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said, “‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

But since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves. I refuse to be a judge of these things.”

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

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

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

Rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.

“My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.

But the centurion paid more attention to the pilot and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said.

And on the third day they threw the ship's tackle overboard with their own hands.

He lived there two whole years at his own expense, and welcomed all who came to him,

He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah's womb.

For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.

For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

For, being ignorant of the righteousness of God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree.

The Mystery of Israel's Salvation

Lest you be wise in your own sight, I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers: a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.

For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.

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

But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even your own brothers!

Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.

I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.

I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

Who serves as a soldier at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard without eating any of its fruit? Or who tends a flock without getting some of the milk?

For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward, but if not of my own will, I am still entrusted with a stewardship.

Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.

just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.

For in eating, each one goes ahead with his own meal. One goes hungry, another gets drunk.

or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

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

But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand.

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

Therefore we are comforted. And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit has been refreshed by you all.

For they gave according to their means, as I can testify, and beyond their means, of their own accord,

For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord.

on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers;

On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses—

And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

Sons and Heirs

I mean that the heir, as long as he is a child, is no different from a slave, though he is the owner of everything,

But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.

For each will have to bear his own load.

For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Final Warning and Benediction

See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand.

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Wives and Husbands

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

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

For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,

Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Lights in the World

Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling,

For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith—

Straining Toward the Goal

Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.

But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.

So, being affectionately desirous of you, we were ready to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own selves, because you had become very dear to us.

we exhorted each one of you and encouraged you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,

that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

Now such persons we command and encourage in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work quietly and to earn their own living.

I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. This is the sign of genuineness in every letter of mine; it is the way I write.

He must manage his own household well, with all dignity keeping his children submissive,

for if someone does not know how to manage his own household, how will he care for God's church?

Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.

But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

Let all who are under a yoke as bondservants regard their own masters as worthy of all honor, so that the name of God and the teaching may not be reviled.

who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions,

One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”

to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.

Bondservants are to be submissive to their own masters in everything; they are to be well-pleasing, not argumentative,

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for himself a people for his own possession who are zealous for good works.

he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own accord.

I, Paul, write this with my own hand: I will repay it—to say nothing of your owing me even your own self.

Because of this he is obligated to offer sacrifice for his own sins just as he does for those of the people.

and then have fallen away, to restore them again to repentance, since they are crucifying once again the Son of God to their own harm and holding him up to contempt.

He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifices daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this once for all when he offered up himself.

he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.

Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own,

So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire.

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Wives and Husbands

Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives,

For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands,

Confirm Your Calling and Election

His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,

knowing this first of all, that no prophecy of Scripture comes from someone's own interpretation.

but was rebuked for his own transgression; a speechless donkey spoke with human voice and restrained the prophet's madness.

What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”

knowing this first of all, that scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires.

as he does in all his letters when he speaks in them of these matters. There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures.

You therefore, beloved, knowing this beforehand, take care that you are not carried away with the error of lawless people and lose your own stability.

We should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

wild waves of the sea, casting up the foam of their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved forever.

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

They said to you, “In the last time there will be scoffers, following their own ungodly passions.”

The one who conquers, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God. Never shall he go out of it, and I will write on him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from my God out of heaven, and my own new name.