Hag 1:2-11, 2:16-19, Luk 12:31, Joh 6:27 | ESV | STEP | Thus says the Lord of hosts : These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord .

2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.” 3 Then the word of the Lord came ^aby the hand of Haggai the prophet, 4 ^b“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while ^cthis house lies in ruins? 5 Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: ^dConsider your ways. 6 ^eYou have sown much, and harvested little. ^fYou eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who ^gearns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^hConsider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that ⁱI may take pleasure in it and that ^jI may be glorified, says the Lord. 9 ^kYou looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, ^lI blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house ^mthat lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 10 Therefore ⁿthe heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 And ^oI have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on ^pthe grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and ^qon all their labors.”

Haggai 2:16-19

16 how did you fare? ^rWhen ^{▼▼Probable reading (compare Septuagint); Hebrew Lord, since they were. When} 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 ^tI struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, ^uyet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. 18 ^vConsider from this day onward, ^wfrom the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since ^xthe day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, ^yconsider: 19 ^zIs the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on ^aaI will bless you.”

Luke 12:31

31 Instead, ^abseek ^achis ^{▼▼Some manuscripts God’s} kingdom, ^aeand these things will be added to you.

John 6:27

27 ^afDo not work for the food that perishes, but for ^agthe food that endures to eternal life, which ^ahthe Son of Man will give to you. For on ^aihim God the Father has ^ajset his seal.”