'Own' in the Bible

He answered them, "It isn't for you to know what times or periods the Father has fixed by his own authority.

to serve in this office of apostle, from which Judas left to go to his own place."

When that sound came, a crowd quickly gathered, startled because each one heard the disciples speaking in his own language.

So how is it that each one of us hears them speaking in his own native language:

Cretans, and Arabs, listening to them talk in our own languages about the great deeds of God?"

When Peter saw this, he told the people: "Fellow Israelis, why are you wondering about this, and why are you staring at us as if by our own power or godliness we made him walk?

Now all the believers were one in heart and soul, and nobody called any of his possessions his own. Instead, they shared everything they owned.

As long as it remained unsold, wasn't it your own? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? So how could you have thought of doing what you did? You didn't lie only to men, but also to God!"

When he was placed outside, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son.

It was this Moses who told the Israelis, "God will raise up a prophet for you from among your own brothers, just as he did me.'

Then God removed Saul and made David their king, about whom he testified, "I have found that David, the son of Jesse, is a man after my own heart, who will carry out all my wishes.'

Now David, after he had served God's purpose in his own generation, died and was buried with his ancestors, and so he experienced decay.

In past generations he allowed all the nations to go their own ways,

For we live, move, and exist because of him, as some of your own poets have said: ""Since we are his children, too.'

So if we are God's children, we shouldn't think that the divine being is like gold, silver, or stone, or is an image carved by humans using their own imagination and skill.

But when they began to oppose him and insult him, he shook out his clothes in protest and told 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 question about words, names, and your own Law, you will have to take care of that yourselves. I refuse to be a judge in these matters."

Pay attention to yourselves and to the entire flock over which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers to be shepherds of God's church, which he acquired with his own blood.

Indeed, some of your own men will arise and distort the truth in order to lure the disciples into following them.

You yourselves know that I worked with my own hands to support myself and those who were with me.

He came to us, took Paul's belt, and tied his own feet and hands with it. Then he said, "The Holy Spirit says, "This is how the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem will tie up the man who owns this belt. Then they will hand him over to the gentiles.'"

"Then he said, "The God of our ancestors has chosen you to know his will, to see the Righteous One, and to hear his own voice,

Instead, they had several arguments with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus who had died but Paul kept asserting he was alive.

All the Jews know how I lived from the earliest days of my youth with my own people and in Jerusalem.

On the third day they threw the ship's equipment overboard with their own hands.

But the Jews objected and forced me to appeal to the emperor, even though I have no countercharge to bring against my own people.

For two whole years Paul lived in his own rented place and welcomed everyone who came to him.