Haggai 1:5

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

A man’s steps are established by Yahweh. He delights in his way.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, “If you are returning to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.”

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Yahweh said to me, “Son of man, mark well, and see with your eyes, and hear with your ears all that I tell you concerning all the ordinances of Yahweh’s house, and all its laws; and mark well the entrance of the house, with every exit of the sanctuary.

The king was exceedingly sorry, but for the sake of his oaths, and of his dinner guests, he didn’t wish to refuse her.

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God, lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it,

But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

‘Cursed is the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the cherubim’s wings.

David said to Solomon his son, “As for me, it was in my heart to build a house to the name of Yahweh my God.

The priests brought in the ark of Yahweh’s covenant to its place, into the inner sanctuary of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubim.

She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.

Jesus therefore said to them again, “Peace be to you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you.”

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision for the truth of God, that he might confirm the promises given to the fathers,

For such a high priest was fitting for us: holy, guiltless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

and having a great priest over God’s house,

For you were going astray like sheep; but now you have returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.

He said to them, “Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

There I have set a place for the ark, in which is Yahweh’s covenant, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

When the builders laid the foundation of Yahweh’s temple, they set the priests in their clothing with trumpets, with the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise Yahweh, according to the directions of David king of Israel.

Then work stopped on God’s house which is at Jerusalem. It stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

So teach us to count our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

“You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.

He said, “Greatly beloved man, don’t be afraid. Peace be to you. Be strong. Yes, be strong.” When he spoke to me, I was strengthened, and said, “Let my lord speak; for you have strengthened me.”

‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Yahweh’s temple was laid, consider it.

even he shall build Yahweh’s temple; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule on his throne; and he shall be a priest on his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

among whom you are also called to belong to Jesus Christ;

If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

Now I do this for the sake of the Good News, that I may be a joint partaker of it.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ is formed in you—

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you also were called in one hope of your calling,

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

to the end he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you and guard you from the evil one.

Consider what I say, and may the Lord give you understanding in all things.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession: Jesus,

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

but if it bears thorns and thistles, it is rejected and near being cursed, whose end is to be burned.

where as a forerunner Jesus entered for us, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, since a death has occurred for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first covenant, that those who have been called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for Yahweh will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, whether native-born or a stranger who lives as a foreigner among you;

You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so Yahweh your God disciplines you.

and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,

Stand in awe, and don’t sin. Search your own heart on your bed, and be still.

Peace be within your walls, and prosperity within your palaces.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death.

He said to me, “Son of man, have you seen?” Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the bank of the river.

I will get up and go to my father, and will tell him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.

the Spirit of truth, whom the world can’t receive; for it doesn’t see him and doesn’t know him. You know him, for he lives with you, and will be in you.

In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you.

For the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all who are far off, even as many as the Lord our God will call to himself.”

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.

Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.

Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

Notice her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.

“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.

I considered my ways, and turned my steps to your statutes.

Make the path of your feet level. Let all of your ways be established.

A wicked man hardens his face; but as for the upright, he establishes his ways.

It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting; for that is the end of all men, and the living should take this to heart.

No one thinks, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, “I have burned part of it in the fire. Yes, I have also baked bread on its coals. I have roasted meat and eaten it. Shall I make the rest of it into an abomination? Shall I bow down to a tree trunk?”

“Remember this, and show yourselves men. Bring it to mind again, you transgressors.

I listened and heard, but they didn’t say what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, saying, “What have I done?” Everyone turns to his course, as a horse that rushes headlong in the battle.

“Set up road signs. Make guideposts. Set your heart toward the highway, even the way by which you went. Turn again, virgin of Israel. Turn again to these your cities.

“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

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

Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.

Then he said to me, “Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard. I have come for your words’ sake.

This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know about your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.

But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.

But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!