15 Bible Verses about Seeking For Abstract Things

The one who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but the one who searches for evil -- it will come to him.

Seek good and not evil so you can live! Then the Lord, the God who commands armies, just might be with you, as you claim he is.

Seek the Lord's favor, all you humble people of the land who have obeyed his commands! Strive to do what is right! Strive to be humble! Maybe you will be protected on the day of the Lord's angry judgment.

if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,

I love those who love me, and those who seek me find me.

Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.

The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

He has brought you near and all your brothers, the sons of Levi, with you. Do you now seek the priesthood also?

Are you looking for great things for yourself? Do not look for such things. For I, the Lord, affirm that I am about to bring disaster on all humanity. But I will allow you to escape with your life wherever you go."'"

From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray him.

The chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin were trying to find false testimony against Jesus so that they could put him to death.

As the crowds were increasing, Jesus began to say, "This generation is a wicked generation; it looks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.

You study the scriptures thoroughly because you think in them you possess eternal life, and it is these same scriptures that testify about me,

For ignoring the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking instead to establish their own righteousness, they did not submit to God's righteousness.

What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking, but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened,