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Haggai 1:5

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Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
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  1. Lamentations 3:40Rank 1 from verse 5
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    40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

  2. 2 Corinthians 13:5Rank 2 from verse 5
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    5Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

  3. Haggai 2:15–18Rank 3 from verse 5
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    15And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:

    16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

    17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.

    18Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.

  4. Haggai 1:7Rank 4 from verse 5
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    7¶ Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

  5. Luke 15:17Rank 5 from verse 5
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    17And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

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Haggai 1:5

COMBINED MEANING

hosts

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1. Armies or multitudes. 2. Persons who receive or entertain guests.

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consider

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1. To think upon attentively; to examine or weigh. 2. To regard, observe, or take notice of.

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

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4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

5Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

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6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

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