15 Bible Verses about Seeking For Abstract Things
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He who, with all his heart, goes after what is good is searching for grace; but he who is looking for trouble will get it.
Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.
Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.
If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
Those who have given me their love are loved by me, and those who make search for me with care will get me.
Then I will give no answer to their cries; searching for me early, they will not see me:
The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.
Letting you, and all your brothers the sons of Levi, come near to him? and would you now be priests?
And as for you, are you looking for great things for yourself? Have no desire for them: for truly I will send evil on all flesh, says the Lord: but your life I will keep safe from attack wherever you go.
Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
And when a great number of people came together to him, he said, This generation is an evil generation: it is looking for a sign and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah.
You make search in the holy Writings, in the belief that through them you get eternal life; and it is those Writings which give witness about me.
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
What then? That which Israel was searching for he did not get, but those of the selection got it and the rest were made hard.
