'Consider' in the Bible

It is not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.

So we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are unseen; for the things which are visible are temporal [just brief and fleeting], but the things which are invisible are everlasting and imperishable. Cross references: 2 Corinthians 4:6 : Gen 1:3 2 Corinthians 4:13 : Ps 116:10 end of crossrefs

For consider how much diligence this very thing—this grieving as God wills—has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

now I ask that when I am present I may not have to be bold with the confidence that (I expect) I will dare to use against some who consider us to be behaving according to human standards.

You are looking at things as they are outwardly. If anyone is confident in himself that he is Christ’s, let him consider this again within himself, that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.

Such a person should consider this: What we are in the words of our letters when absent, we will be in actions when present.

Now I consider myself in no way inferior to the “super-apostles.”

I repeat: No one should consider me a fool. But if you do, at least accept me as a fool, so I too may boast a little.