Haggai 1:5

The Temple Lies In Ruins

⁴ “Is it time for you yourselves to live in your [expensive] paneled houses while this house [of the Lord] lies in ruins?” ⁵ Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct! ⁶ You have planted much, but you harvest little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you do not have enough to be intoxicated; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns wages earns them just to put them in a bag with holes in it [because God has withheld His blessing].”

Apply Your Heart

Consider Your Ways

For This Cause

Lord Almighty

Lord of Hosts

Says the Lord

Thus Says the Lord

Jehovah

Lamentations 3:40

Let us test and examine our ways,
And let us return to the Lord.

Exodus 7:23

Then Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this [divine sign] to heart.

Exodus 9:21

but everyone who ignored and did not take seriously the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field.

Psalm 48:13

Consider her ramparts,
Go through her palaces,
That you may tell the next generation [about her glory].

Ezekiel 18:28

Because he considered and turned away from all the transgressions which he had committed, he shall certainly live; he shall not die.

Ezekiel 40:4

The man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears and set your heart on all that I am going to show you; for you have been brought here that I may show it to you. Declare to the house of Israel all that you see.”

Daniel 6:14

Then, as soon as the king heard these words, he was deeply distressed [over what he had done] and set his mind on rescuing Daniel; and he struggled until the sun went down [trying to work out a way] to save him.

Daniel 10:12

Then he said to me, “Do not be afraid, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart on understanding this and on humbling yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to your words.

Haggai 1:7

Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct!

Haggai 2:15-18

But now, do consider [what will happen] from this day forward: before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the Lord,

Luke 15:17

But when he [finally] came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough food, while I am dying here of hunger!

2 Corinthians 13:5

Test and evaluate yourselves to see whether you are in the faith and living your lives as [committed] believers. Examine yourselves [not me]! Or do you not recognize this about yourselves [by an ongoing experience] that Jesus Christ is in you—unless indeed you fail the test and are rejected as counterfeit?

Galatians 6:4

But each one must carefully scrutinize his own work [examining his actions, attitudes, and behavior], and then he can have the personal satisfaction and inner joy of doing something commendable without comparing himself to another.