Haggai 1:7

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

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.

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,

He paws in the valley, and rejoices in his strength. He goes out to meet the armed men.

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.

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

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might.

Therefore I will not be negligent to remind you of these things, though you know them, and are established in the present truth.

“Go inquire of Yahweh for me, and for those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is Yahweh’s wrath that is poured out on us, because our fathers have not kept Yahweh’s word, to do according to all that is written in this book.”

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.

Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

“Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the early rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the early rain and the latter rain, as before.

Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

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

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—

Rejoice in the Lord always! Again I will say, “Rejoice!”

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.

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.

“ ‘If they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, in their trespass which they trespassed against me; and also that because they walked contrary to me,

They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, “We have sinned against Yahweh.” Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.

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

Examine me, Yahweh, and prove me. Try my heart and my mind.

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

Oh that my ways were steadfast to obey your statutes!

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

The righteousness of the blameless will direct his way, but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

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

The father of the righteous has great joy. Whoever fathers a wise child delights in him.

Therefore Yahweh’s word will be to them precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little; that they may go, fall backward, be broken, be snared, and be taken.

“I have heard what the prophets have said, who prophesy lies in my name, saying, ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’

“I sought for a man among them who would build up the wall and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I would not destroy it; but I found no one.

The godly man has perished out of the earth, and there is no one upright among men. They all lie in wait for blood; every man hunts his brother with a net.

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

‘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.

Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.

“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

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.

Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.

I made known to them your name, and will make it known; that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and I in them.”

how I didn’t shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, teaching you publicly and from house to house,

Finally, brothers, rejoice! Be perfected. Be comforted. Be of the same mind. Live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.

In the same way, you also rejoice, and rejoice with me.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Always rejoice.

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.

But because you are partakers of Christ’s sufferings, rejoice, that at the revelation of his glory you also may rejoice with exceeding joy.

The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

“It will happen, if they will not believe you or listen to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.

yet if they repent in the land where they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication to you in the land of those who carried them captive, saying, ‘We have sinned, and have done perversely; we have dealt wickedly;’

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.”

You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Is it any pleasure to the Almighty that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him that you make your ways perfect?

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.

Those who are perverse in heart are an abomination to Yahweh, but those whose ways are blameless are his delight.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes, God has made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything after him.

For it is precept on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little.

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

O Yahweh, don’t your eyes look on truth? You have stricken them, but they were not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock. They have refused to return.

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.

Yahweh’s anger will not return until he has executed, and until he has performed the intents of his heart. In the latter days, you will understand it perfectly.

Moreover Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made intercession to the king that he would not burn the scroll; but he would not listen to them.

The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

“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.

I will pour on David’s house, and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they will look to me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for his firstborn.

He set another parable before them, saying, “The Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field,

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

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

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.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord! To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not tiresome, but for you it is safe.