27 Bible Verses about Not Seeking God
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Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God.
God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God.
{With bald-faced pride} [the] wicked will not seek [God]. There is no God in any of his thoughts.
And the people did not turn to the one who struck it, and they did not seek Yahweh of hosts.
Ah! Those who go down [to] Egypt for help! They rely on horses and trust in chariots because [they are] many, and in horsemen because they are very numerous, and they do not look to the holy one of Israel, and they do not consult Yahweh.
For the shepherds have become stupid, they do not seek Yahweh. {Therefore} they do not have insight, and all of their flock are scattered.
The pride of Israel {testifies against him}-- they do not return to Yahweh their God; they do not seek him for all of this.
Salvation [is] far from [the] wicked, for they do not seek your statutes.
"I let myself be sought by [those who] did not ask; I let myself be found by [those who] did not seek me. I said, 'Here I am; here I am!' to a nation [that] did not call on my name;
And Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I became known to those who did not ask for me."
and those who turned back from {following} Yahweh, and who did not seek Yahweh, and did not inquire of him."
{I will return again} to my place until they acknowledge [their] guilt and seek my face; in their distress they will search me.
How are you able to believe, [if you] accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory [which is] from the only God?
And he did evil, for he did not set his heart to seek Yahweh.
And in the thirty-ninth year of his reign, he fell {severely} ill in his feet. But even in his illness he did not seek Yahweh, but [only] among the healers.
"If I have made gold my trust, or I have called fine gold my security, if I have rejoiced because my wealth [was] great or because my hand found a fortune,
Why does the wicked treat God with contempt? He says in his heart, "You will not call [me] to account."
[The] fool says in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt. They do abominable deeds. There is none who does good. Yahweh looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who cares about God. All have gone astray; they are altogether corrupt. There is not one who does good; there is not even one.
[It is] better to take refuge in Yahweh than to trust in humans.
then they will call me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but not find me. Since they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Yahweh, they were not willing [to accept] my counsel, they despised all my reproof.read more.
They shall eat from the fruit of their way, and they shall be sated from their own schemes,
O generation, you see the word of Yahweh. Have I been a desert to Israel? Or a land of great darkness? Why do my people say, 'We roam about freely, we will not come again to you'?
Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not know you, and on [the] peoples that do not call on your name, for they have devoured Jacob, they have devoured and consumed him, and they have caused his settlement to be desolate.
And it will not be again for the house of Israel an object of trust, bringing to remembrance [their] guilt {when they turned back to them}, and they will know that I [am] the Lord Yahweh."
Their deeds do not permit them to return them to God. Because a spirit of whoredom [is] in their midst, they do not know Yahweh. The pride of Israel testifies {against him}, and Israel and Ephraim stumble in their guilt, and Judah stumbles with them. With their flocks and herds they will go to seek Yahweh, but they will not find him; he has withdrawn from them.
"And I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, and the name of idolatrous priests with the priests,
