'Consider' in the Bible

The Lord said to Noah, "Come into the ark, you and all your household, for I consider you godly among this generation.

But Moses responded to the Lord, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, since You warned us: Put a boundary around the mountain and consider it holy.”

Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.

“When you come into the land and plant any kind of tree for food, you are to consider the fruit forbidden. It will be forbidden to you for three years; it is not to be eaten.

You are to consider him holy since he presents the food of your God. He will be holy to you because I, Yahweh who sets you apart, am holy.

So tell them that as long as I live consider this to be an oracle from the LORD as certainly as you've spoken right into my ears, that's how I'm going to treat you.

I see them from the top of rocky cliffs,and I watch them from the hills.There is a people living alone;it does not consider itself among the nations.

Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.

Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

O that they were wise, that they understood this, that they would consider their latter end!

Who said of his father and his mother,‘I did not consider them’;And he did not acknowledge his brothers,Nor did he regard his own sons,For they observed Your word,And kept Your covenant.

Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider of it, take advice, and speak your minds.

Don't consider your maid servant a worthless woman. Rather, all this time I've been speaking because I'm very anxious and distressed."

Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you.

Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

Just as I considered your life valuable today, so may the Lord consider my life valuable and rescue me from all trouble.”

So turn and leave in peace. You must not do anything that the leaders of the Philistines consider improper!"

Why then have you despised the command of the Lord by doing what I consider evil? You struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and took his wife as your own wife—you murdered him with the Ammonite’s sword.

So he said to the king, “Let not my lord consider me guilty, nor remember what your servant did wrong on the day when my lord the king came out from Jerusalem, so that the king would take it to heart.

And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and lo, dead; and I consider concerning it in the morning, and lo, it was not my son whom I did bear.'

Yet graciously consider the prayer of Your servant and his supplication, O Lord my God, to listen to the [loud] cry and to the prayer which Your servant prays before You today;

if they take it to heart in the land where they have been taken captive, and they repent and pray to You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong and we have acted wickedly;’

I'm doing this because they have abandoned me and worshipped that Sidonian goddess Astarte, the Moabite god Chemosh, and the Ammonite god Milcom. They haven't lived my way by doing what I consider to be right and observing my statutes and my ordinances, like his father David did.

If you listen to everything that I command you to do, and if you live your life my way, and if you do what I consider to be right by observing my statutes and my commandments, just like my servant David did, then I will be with you, I will build an enduring dynasty for you, just like I did for David, and I'll give Israel to you.

The prophet approached the king of Israel and said to him, “Go and strengthen yourself, then consider what you should do, for in the spring the king of Aram will march against you.”

His servants said to him, “Consider this: we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings. So let’s put sackcloth around our waists and ropes around our heads, and let’s go out to the king of Israel. Perhaps he will spare your life.”

And it came to pass, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he rent his clothes, and said, Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man doth send unto me to recover a man of his leprosy? wherefore consider, I pray you, and see how he seeketh a quarrel against me.

So the palace supervisor, the city commissioner, the leaders, and the guardians sent this message to Jehu, "We are your subjects! Whatever you say, we will do. We will not make anyone king. Do what you consider proper."

because they have done what I consider to be evil and they have provoked me from the day their ancestors left Egypt right up to this day!'"

Choose thee, either three years of famine, or three months to be destroyed before thine adversaries while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee, or three days the sword of Jehovah and the pestilence in the land, and the angel of Jehovah destroying through all the borders of Israel. And now consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

Consider now, that Jehovah has chosen thee to build a house for the sanctuary: be strong, and do it.

Then he said to the judges, “Consider what you are doing, for you do not judge for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the matter of judgment.

And I gather them unto the river that is going unto Ahava, and we encamp there three days; and I consider about the people, and about the priests, and of the sons of Levi I have found none there;

So the exiles proceeded accordingly. Ezra the priest separated out by name men who were leaders in their family groups. They sat down to consider this matter on the first day of the tenth month,

On the second day of the month the family leaders met with Ezra the scribe, together with all the people, the priests, and the Levites, to consider the words of the law.

Consider: who has perished when he was innocent?Where have the honest been destroyed?

Do you intend to reprove [my] words and [consider the] words of a desperate [man] as wind?

"Inquire of the previous generation, won't you please? Consider what their forefathers searched out.

I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent.

For he knoweth vain men: he seeth wickedness also; will he not then consider it?

Why do You hide Your faceand consider me Your enemy?

When do ye set an end to words? Consider ye, and afterwards do we speak.

“Those who live in my house and my maids consider me a stranger.I am a foreigner in their sight.

"Isn't God in heaven above? Consider how far away the stars are, and how lofty they are!

Therefore am I troubled at his presence: when I consider, I am afraid of him.

I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.

let's choose what's right for us. Let's consider among ourselves what is good."

For he doth not long consider a man, to bring him before God in judgment.

Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!

Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

{To the chief Musician upon Nehiloth, A Psalm of David.} Give ear to my words, O LORD, consider my meditation.

When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

Have mercy upon me, O LORD; consider my trouble which I suffer of them that hate me, thou that liftest me up from the gates of death:

But you do see trouble and grief. You consider it to take it into your hand. You help the victim and the fatherless.

Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;

A prayer of David. Lord, consider my just cause! Pay attention to my cry for help! Listen to the prayer I sincerely offer!

Consider my affliction and trouble,and take away all my sins.

Consider mine enemies; for they are many; and they hate me with cruel hatred.

One thing I have asked of the Lord, and that I will seek:That I may dwell in the house of the Lord [in His presence] all the days of my life,To gaze upon the beauty [the delightful loveliness and majestic grandeur] of the LordAnd to meditate in His temple.

Because they do not considerwhat the Lord has doneor the work of His hands,He will tear them down and not rebuild them.

For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.

But I [am] poor and needy. Let my Lord consider me. You [are] my help and my deliverer. O my God, do not delay.

Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

And all men shall fear, and shall declare the work of God; for they shall wisely consider of his doing.

Come and {consider} the works of God; [he is] awesome [in his] dealings with the children of humankind.

May his fame endure! May his dynasty last as long as the sun remains in the sky! May they use his name when they formulate their blessings! May all nations consider him to be favored by God!

Consider the covenant,for the dark places of the land are full of violence.

I consider days of old,years long past.

I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

As I meditate on all your works, I will consider your awesome deeds.

They do not know or consider. They go about in the darkness, [so that] all [the] foundations of [the] earth are shaken.

Consider our shield, God;look on the face of Your anointed one.

What man can live and not see death?Can he rescue his soul from the [powerful] hand of Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead)? Selah.

So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

And they say, 'Jehovah doth not see, And the God of Jacob doth not consider.'

Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

I will not even consider doing what is dishonest. I hate doing evil; I will have no part of it.

Let whoever is wise pay attention to these thingsand consider the Lord’s acts of faithful love.

This is the Lord's work. We consider it amazing!

Then I wouldn't be disappointed, when I consider all of your commandments.

I will meditate on your precepts, and consider your ways.

I consider my actions and follow your rules.

Teach me proper discernment and understanding! For I consider your commands to be reliable.

The wicked have waited for me to destroy me: but I will consider thy testimonies.

I truly consider all of your precepts all of them to be just, while I despise every false way. Peyh

RESH. Consider mine affliction, and deliver me: for I do not forget thy law.

Consider how I love thy precepts: quicken me, O LORD, according to thy lovingkindness.

Consider this: as the eyes of a servant focus on what his master provides, and as the eyes of a female servant focus on what her mistress provides, so our eyes focus on the LORD our God, until he has mercy on us.

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don't remember you, if I don't consider Jerusalem to be more important than my highest joy.

I hate them with extreme hatred;I consider them my enemies.

Don’t consider yourself to be wise;fear the Lord and turn away from evil.

Carefully consider the path for your feet,and all your ways will be established.