'Consider' in the Bible
Then He told them many things in parables, saying: “Consider the sower who went out to sow.
And consider your relative Elizabeth—even she has conceived a son in her old age, and this is the sixth month for her who was called childless.
That is why I didn’t even consider myself worthy to come to You. But say the word, and my servant will be cured.
Consider the ravens: They don’t sow or reap; they don’t have a storeroom or a barn; yet God feeds them. Aren’t you worth much more than the birds?
“Consider how the wildflowers grow: They don’t labor or spin thread. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was adorned like one of these!
“Consider this: Moses has given you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
And now, Lord, consider their threats, and grant that Your slaves may speak Your message with complete boldness,
Then Paul and Barnabas boldly said: “It was necessary that God’s message be spoken to you first. But since you reject it and consider yourselves unworthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles!
Then the apostles and the elders assembled to consider this matter.
After she and her household were baptized, she urged us, “If you consider me a believer in the Lord, come and stay at my house.” And she persuaded us.
“I consider myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that today I am going to make a defense before you about everything I am accused of by the Jews,
But we would like to hear from you what you think. For concerning this sect, we are aware that it is spoken against everywhere.”
So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is going to be revealed to us.
Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in His kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
Brothers, consider your calling: Not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful, not many of noble birth.
A person should consider us in this way: as servants of Christ and managers of God’s mysteries.
Therefore I consider this to be good because of the present distress: It is fine for a man to remain as he is.
It is not that we are competent in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our competence is from God.
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.
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.
Do nothing out of rivalry or conceit, but in humility consider others as more important than yourselves.
who, existing in the form of God,did not consider equality with Godas something to be used for His own advantage.
More than that, I also consider everything to be a loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. Because of Him I have suffered the loss of all things and consider them filth, so that I may gain Christ
Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and reaching forward to what is ahead,
And in view of this, we always pray for you that our God will consider you worthy of His calling, and will, by His power, fulfill every desire for goodness and the work of faith,
Consider what I say, for the Lord will give you understanding in everything.
So if you consider me a partner, accept him as you would me.
Therefore, holy brothers and companions in a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the apostle and high priest of our confession;
Now consider how great this man was—even Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the plunder to him!
For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, so that you won’t grow weary and lose heart.
Consider it a great joy, my brothers, whenever you experience various trials,
And consider ships: Though very large and driven by fierce winds, they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
So too, though the tongue is a small part of the body, it boasts great things. Consider how large a forest a small fire ignites.
I have written you this brief letter through Silvanus (I know him to be a faithful brother) to encourage you and to testify that this is the true grace of God. Take your stand in it!
I consider it right, as long as I am in this bodily tent, to wake you up with a reminder,
suffering harm as the payment for unrighteousness. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions as they feast with you.