⁵ Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(A)Consider your ways.

¹⁷ “But ^(A)when he ^(B)came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!

⁷ “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(A)Consider your ways.

¹⁵ Now then, ^(A)consider from this day onward.^[a] Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord, ¹⁶ how did you fare? ^(B)When^[b] one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. ^17 (C)I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, ^(D)yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. ^18 (E)Consider from this day onward, ^(F)from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since ^(G)the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, ^(H)consider:

⁵ Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. ^(A)Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that ^(B)Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

²¹ but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the Lord left his slaves and his livestock in the field.

²³ Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he did not take even this to heart.

⁴ But let each one ^(A)test his own work, and then his reason to boast will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.