Haggai 1

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Haggai Begins Temple Building

1 In the ^(A)second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet ^(B)Haggai to ^(C)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^(D)governor of Judah, and to ^(E)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, ²“This is what the Lord of armies ^[a]says: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”’” ³Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, ⁴“Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house remains ^(F)desolate?” ⁵Now then, the Lord of armies says this: “^[b]Consider your ways! ⁶You have ^(G)sown much, only to ^[c]harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but there is not enough for ^[d]anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes.”

⁷The Lord of armies says this: “^[e]Consider your ways! ⁸Go up to the ^[f]mountains, bring wood, and ^(H)rebuild the ^[g]temple, that I may be ^(I)pleased with it and be ^(J)honored,” says the Lord. ⁹“^(K)You ^[h]start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I ^(L)blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of armies. “It is because of My house which ^(M)remains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house. ¹⁰Therefore, because of you the ^(N)sky has withheld ^[i]its dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. ¹¹And I called for a ^(O)drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on ^(P)mankind, on cattle, and on ^(Q)all the products of the labor of ^[j]your hands.”

¹²Then ^(R)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and ^(S)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, ^(T)obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, just as the Lord their God had sent him. And the people ^[k]^(U)showed reverence for the Lord. ¹³Then Haggai, the ^(V)messenger of the Lord, spoke ^[l]by the commission of the Lord to the people, saying, “‘^(W)I am with you,’ declares the Lord.” ¹⁴So the Lord stirred up the spirit of ^(X)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^(Y)governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the ^(Z)remnant of the people; and they came and ^(AA)worked on the house of the Lord of armies, their God, ¹⁵on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.

Footnotes

Haggai 1:2 Lit says, saying
Haggai 1:5 Lit Set your heart on
Haggai 1:6 Lit bring in
Haggai 1:6 Lit him
Haggai 1:7 Lit Set your heart on
Haggai 1:8 Lit mountain
Haggai 1:8 Lit house
Haggai 1:9 Lit turn to much
Haggai 1:10 Lit from dew
Haggai 1:11 Lit palms
Haggai 1:12 Lit feared before
Haggai 1:13 Or with the commissioned message

Proverbs 28:1-7

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Warnings and Instructions

28 The wicked ^(A)flee when no one is pursuing,
But the righteous are ^[a]bold as a lion.
²Due to a ^[b]wrongdoing of ^[c]a land its leaders are ^(B)many,
But ^(C)by a person of understanding and knowledge, so it endures.
³A ^(D)poor man who oppresses the helpless
Is like a driving rain ^[d]which leaves no food.
⁴Those who abandon the Law ^(E)praise the wicked,
But those who keep the Law ^(F)strive against them.
⁵Evil people ^(G)do not understand justice,
But those who seek the Lord ^(H)understand everything.
⁶^(I)Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity,
Than a person who is ^[e]crooked, though he is rich.
⁷He who keeps the Law is a discerning son,
But he who is a companion of ^(J)gluttons humiliates his father.

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Footnotes

Proverbs 28:1 Lit confident
Proverbs 28:2 Or rebellion
Proverbs 28:2 I.e., the people of a land
Proverbs 28:3 Lit and there is no bread
Proverbs 28:6 Lit perverse of two ways

Hebrews 5

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The Perfect High Priest

5 For every high priest ^(A)taken from among men is appointed on behalf of people in ^(B)things pertaining to God, in order to ^(C)offer both gifts and sacrifices ^(D)for sins; ²^[a]^(E)he can deal gently with the ^(F)ignorant and ^(G)misguided, since he himself also is ^[b]^(H)clothed in weakness; ³and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices ^(I)for sins for himself, ^(J)as well as for the people. ⁴And ^(K)no one takes the honor for himself, but receives it when he is called by God, just ^(L)as Aaron also was.

⁵So too Christ ^(M)did not glorify Himself in becoming a ^(N)high priest, but it was He who ^(O)said to Him,

“^(P)You are My Son,
Today I have fathered You”;

⁶just as He also says in another passage,

“^(Q)You are a priest forever
According to ^(R)the order of Melchizedek.”

⁷In the days of ^[c]His humanity, ^[d]^(S)He offered up both prayers and pleas with ^(T)loud crying and tears to the One ^(U)able to save Him ^[e]from death, and He ^[f]was heard because of His ^(V)devout behavior. ⁸Although He was ^(W)a Son, He learned ^(X)obedience from the things which He suffered. ⁹And having been ^(Y)perfected, He became the source of eternal salvation for all those who obey Him, ¹⁰being designated by God as ^(Z)High Priest according to ^(AA)the order of Melchizedek.

¹¹Concerning ^[g]him we have much to say, and it is difficult to explain, since you have become ^[h]poor listeners. ¹²For though ^[i]by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you ^(AB)the ^[j]^(AC)elementary principles of the ^(AD)actual words of God, and you have come to need ^(AE)milk and not solid food. ¹³For everyone who partakes only of milk is unacquainted with the word of righteousness, for he is an ^(AF)infant. ¹⁴But solid food is for ^(AG)the mature, who because of practice have their senses ^(AH)trained to ^(AI)distinguish between good and evil.