10 Bible Verses about Seeking For Concrete Things

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

"Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls,

And do not seek what you will eat or what you will drink, nor have an anxious mind.

For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.

He told this parable: "A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it and found none.

So he said to the keeper of his vineyard, 'Look, for three years I have come seeking fruit on this fig tree and find none. Cut it down; why should it use up the ground?'

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one which is lost until he finds it?

"Or what woman, having ten silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it?

Just then his disciples came. And they marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

For people who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own.