Bible Verses about 'Own'
- However, to avoid the temptation to immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
- No one should seek his own advantage in preference to that of his neighbor.
- In the same way, husbands should love their wives as they do their own bodies. The man who loves his wife loves himself.
- When you look at the tassels, you will remember the commandments of the Lord and keep them. Thus you will not prostitute yourselves by following after the lusts in your own heart or your own eyes.
- Why do you take note of the splinter in your brother’s eye but do not notice the wooden plank in your own eye?
- It was not their own swords that won them the land,
nor did their own arms make them victorious;
rather, it was your right hand and your arm
and the light of your face,
because you loved them. - For ‘In him we live and move and have our being.’ As even your own poets have said, ‘We are all his offspring.’
- So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will take care of itself. Each day has enough troubles of its own.
- He did not spare his own Son but gave him up for all of us. How then can he fail also to give us everything else along with him?
- A fool takes no pleasure in understanding
but only delights in expressing his own opinions. - Whoever gains wisdom loves his own soul;
one who cherishes understanding will prosper. - A man’s ways may seem right to him,
but the Lord weighs the heart. - Do not pride yourself on your own wisdom;
fear the Lord and turn your back on evil.
This will provide healing for your flesh
and restore strength to your body. - A husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise a wife should fulfill her conjugal obligations to her husband. For a wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, a husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
- If you refrain from traveling on the Sabbath
and from engaging in your own interests on my holy day,
if you call the Sabbath a day of joy
and regard the Lord’s holy day as honorable,
if you honor it by not going your own way,
serving your own interests,
or attending to your own affairs;
then you will find true happiness in the Lord,
and I will enable you to ride
upon the heights of the earth.
I will nourish you with the heritage of your father Jacob,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken. - Jesus answered them,
“My teaching is not my own;
rather, it comes from him who sent me.” - One person may consider one day to be more sacred than another, while another may judge all days to be alike. Let everyone be convinced in his own beliefs.
- Trust wholeheartedly in the Lord
rather than relying on your own intelligence.
In everything you do, acknowledge him,
and he will see that your paths are straight. - He gave himself for us in order to deliver us from all iniquity and to purify for himself a people as his own who are eager to do good.
- Flee from sexual immorality! Every other sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the fornicator sins against his own body.
- By his own choice he gave us birth through the way of truth so that we may be a kind of firstfruits of all his creation.
- The entire community of believers was united in heart and soul. No one claimed any of his possessions as his own, for everything was held in common.
- Love is patient;
love is charitable.
Love is not envious;
it does not have an inflated opinion of itself;
it is not filled with its own importance.
Love is never rude;
it does not seek its own advantage.
It is not prone to anger;
neither does it brood over setbacks. - God created mankind in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.
- God saved us and called us to a life of holiness, not because of our works but according to his own purpose and the grace that has been bestowed upon us in Christ Jesus from all eternity.
- For they said to you, “In the final age there will be scoffers who will follow their own ungodly passions.” It is these people who create divisions, who follow their natural instincts and do not possess the Spirit.
- They shall be mine,
says the Lord of hosts,
my own special possession
on the day when I act,
and I will have compassion on them
as a father has compassion
on the son who serves him. - His divine power has bestowed on us everything that is necessary for life and for devotion through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and virtue.
- And whoever does not provide for relatives, especially for those who are living with him, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- What right do you have to pass judgment on someone else’s servant? The master will determine whether that servant will stand or fall. But the servant will be upheld, for the Lord has the power to enable him to stand.
- A man may plan his own course,
but the Lord makes his steps secure. - Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have received from God, and that you are not your own? You have been purchased at a price. Therefore, glorify God in your body.
- Do not wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth,
and cease even to think about it. - But you are “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people claimed by God as his own possession,” so that you may proclaim the praise of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
- And just as no human being comprehends any person’s innermost being except the person’s own spirit within him, so also no one comprehends what pertains to God except the Spirit of God.
- Now, if you will obey my voice and keep my covenant, you will be my own possession from among all the peoples, for the entire earth is mine.
- What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his very life?
- The wealth of a rich man is his stronghold;
he regards it as a high wall that cannot be scaled. - The upright are guarded by their integrity;
the treacherous are destroyed by their own duplicity. - You are from your father, the devil,
and you choose to carry out your father’s desires.
He was a murderer from the beginning,
and he does not abide by the truth,
for there is no truth in him.
When he lies,
he speaks in accord with his own nature,
for he is a liar
and the father of lies. - He who guards his mouth makes his life secure,
but one who talks excessively ensures his own downfall. - Live in harmony with one another. Do not consider yourself to be better than others, but associate with the lowly, and never be conceited.
- Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. - Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, just as Christ is the head of the Church, the body of which he is the Savior.
- But who am I, and what are your people,
that we should be able to do this?
All things belong to you,
and everything that we have given you is from your hand. - Therefore, a Sabbath rest still remains for the people of God, since those who enter into God’s rest also cease from their own labors as God did from his.
- The words of a wise man win favor,
but a fool’s tongue is his undoing. - God gave the midwives numerous families because they had feared God.
- It is the will of God that you should lead a life of sanctity. You must refrain from sexual immorality. Each of you must learn to acquire a wife from pure and honorable motives, not to gratify passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.
- The one who sows in his flesh will reap a harvest of corruption, but the one who sows in the Spirit will reap from the Spirit the reward of eternal life.
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