Haggai 1:2

And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord, and not for men,

I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

“I tell you, my friends, don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

not lagging in diligence; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

It is better to take refuge in Yahweh, than to put confidence in man.

Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”

For in death there is no memory of you. In Sheol, who shall give you thanks?

He who heeds the Word finds prosperity. Whoever trusts in Yahweh is blessed.

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”

For Sheol can’t praise you. Death can’t celebrate you. Those who go down into the pit can’t hope for your truth.

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.

He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that this is he who is appointed by God as the Judge of the living and the dead.

gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,

and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control perseverance; and in perseverance godliness;

They sent a message to Joseph, saying, “Your father commanded before he died, saying,

Nevertheless, my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh my God.

Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned; for I have transgressed the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

Saul said to David, “You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.”

Also they were over the bearers of burdens, and directed all who did the work in every kind of service. Of the Levites, there were scribes, officials, and gatekeepers.

His soul will dwell at ease. His offspring will inherit the land.

In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your adversaries will not be able to withstand or to contradict.

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, “She is my sister,” for he was afraid to say, “My wife”, lest, he thought, “the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she is beautiful to look at.”

But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”

For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them.

You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”

It shall be that in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, you shall rise early and rush on the city. Behold, when he and the people who are with him come out against you, then may you do to them as you shall find occasion.”

All the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, neither will any of us turn to his house.

Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, the bronze for the things of bronze, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; also onyx stones, stones to be set, stones for inlaid work, of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

After him, Baruch the son of Zabbai earnestly repaired another portion, from the turning of the wall to the door of the house of Eliashib the high priest.

He spoke before his brothers and the army of Samaria, and said, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, since they are burned?”

Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading, and there is much rubble; so that we are not able to build the wall.”

“Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up into my bed;

Don’t withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do it.

The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.

The way of the sluggard is like a thorn patch, but the path of the upright is a highway.

Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve kings. He won’t serve obscure men.

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.

How the faithful city has become a prostitute! She was full of justice. Righteousness lodged in her, but now there are murderers.

Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.

Produce your cause,” says Yahweh. “Bring out your strong reasons!” says the King of Jacob.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

“For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

“Isn’t my word like fire?” says Yahweh; “and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “Let it suffice you, princes of Israel: remove violence and plunder, and execute justice and righteousness; dispossessing my people,” says the Lord Yahweh.

Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you, and break off your sins by righteousness, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. Perhaps there may be a lengthening of your tranquility.”

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

Then the king was exceedingly glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

They make promises, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

They will walk after Yahweh, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children will come trembling from the west.

But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness;

He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

Nevertheless even many of the rulers believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,

When he has come, he will convict the world about sin, about righteousness, and about judgment;

Now when they heard this, they were cut to the heart, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles, “Brothers, what shall we do?”

Paul, as was his custom, went in to them, and for three Sabbath days reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

Now when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked; but others said, “We want to hear you again concerning this.”

having hope toward God, which these also themselves look for, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

But I say this, brothers: the time is short, that from now on, both those who have wives may be as though they had none;

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

for he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Let’s fear therefore, lest perhaps anyone of you should seem to have come short of a promise of entering into his rest.

of the teaching of baptisms, of laying on of hands, of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts. Always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you a reason concerning the hope that is in you, with humility and fear,

Little children, let no one lead you astray. He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn’t do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn’t love his brother.

Jacob answered Laban, “Because I was afraid, for I said, ‘Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.’

He changed his behavior before them, and pretended to be insane in their hands, and scribbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down on his beard.

Achish said, “Against whom have you made a raid today?” David said, “Against the South of Judah, against the South of the Jerahmeelites, and against the South of the Kenites.”

David saved neither man nor woman alive, to bring them to Gath, saying, “Lest they should tell about us, saying, ‘David did this, and this has been his way all the time he has lived in the country of the Philistines.’ ”

Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

He who observes the wind won’t sow; and he who regards the clouds won’t reap.

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

Yet no one spoke openly of him for fear of the Jews.

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

As he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment to come, Felix was terrified, and answered, “Go your way for this time, and when it is convenient for me, I will summon you.”