vSee 1 Cor. 3:8
Haggai 1:9-11
9 aYou looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, bI blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house cthat lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 10Therefore dthe heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11And eI have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on fthe grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and gon all their labors.”Haggai 2:14-17
14Then Haggai answered and said, h“So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean. 15Now then, iconsider from this day onward. ▼▼Or backward; also verse 18
Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord, 16how did you fare? kWhen ▼▼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 mI struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, nyet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. 1 Corinthians 3:13-15
13 oeach one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed pby fire, and qthe fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, rhe will receive a reward. 15If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, sbut only as through fire.2 John 8
8Watch yourselves, tso that you may not lose what we ▼▼Some manuscripts you
have worked for, but vmay win a full reward.
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