²⁴ Let us think about each other and help each other to show love and do good deeds. ²⁵ You should not stay away from the church meetings, as some are doing, but you should meet together and encourage each other. Do this even more as you see the day^[a] coming.

² “This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: ‘The people say the right time has not come to rebuild the Temple of the Lord.’”

³ Then Haggai the prophet spoke the word of the Lord: ⁴ “Is it right for you to be living in fancy houses while the Temple is still in ruins?”