So he called all his officers to him, and all his nobles, and discussed with them his secret plan, and, with his own mouth, he ensured the scourging of the whole earth.
"Thus says the great king, the lord of the whole earth, 'Behold, you will go forth from my presence and take with you men who trust in their own strength, one hundred twenty thousand foot soldiers; and the number of horses with their riders, twelve thousand.
But when they departed from the way which he appointed for them, they were destroyed in many battles very badly and were led captive into a land which was not their own, and the temple of their God was cast to the ground, and their cities were taken by the enemies.
And he dispersed the people, each to their own posts; and they went to the walls and towers of their city, and sent the women and children into their houses; and they were brought very low in the city.
The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
The priest shall take some of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand.
The priest shall pour some of the oil into the palm of his own left hand;
"'You shall not uncover the nakedness of your son's daughter, or of your daughter's daughter, even their nakedness: for theirs is your own nakedness.
A widow, or one divorced, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry: but a virgin of his own people shall he take as a wife.
"'These are the appointed feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;
You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.
then he shall go out from you, he and his children with him, and shall return to his own family, and to the possession of his fathers.
With his own hands he shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire. He shall bring the fat with the breast, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.
"When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe.
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky lodged in its branches."
"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!
"If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple.
Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple.
If you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?
"His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
He spoke also this parable to certain people who were convinced of their own righteousness, and who despised all others.
"He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
When they are already budding, you see it and know by your own selves that the summer is already near.
They said, "Why do we need any more witness? For we ourselves have heard from his own mouth!"
All went to enroll themselves, everyone to his own city.
Yes, a sword will pierce through your own soul, that the thoughts of many hearts may be revealed."
When they had accomplished all things that were according to the law of the Lord, they returned into Galilee, to their own city, Nazareth.
Why do you see the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
Or how can you tell your brother, 'Brother, let me remove the speck of chaff that is in your eye,' when you yourself don't see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck of chaff that is in your brother's eye.
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don't gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?
But Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce the Kingdom of God."
They shall be mine," says the LORD of Armies, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
Without a parable he didn't speak to them; but privately to his own disciples he explained everything.
He went out from there. He came into his own country, and his disciples followed him.
Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and among his own relatives, and in his own house."
A man's foes will be those of his own household.
Coming into his own country, he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom, and these mighty works?
They were offended by him. But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country, and in his own house."
Isn't it lawful for me to do what I want to with what I own? Or is your eye evil, because I am good?'
Being warned in a dream that they shouldn't return to Herod, they went back to their own country another way.
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
"For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock, and he rolled a great stone to the door of the tomb, and departed.
Therefore don't be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day's own evil is sufficient.
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but don't consider the beam that is in your own eye?
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