31 Bible Verses about exploring

This is what the LORD says: "If the heavens could be measured above, or the foundations of the earth be searched out below, then I also would reject all the descendants of Israel because of everything they have done," declares the LORD.

I dedicated myself to using wisdom for study and discovery of everything that is done under heaven. God uses terrible things so human beings will struggle with life.

I saw all of it as the activity of God. Frankly, a human being cannot understand what happens on earth, because however hard a man works to discover it, he will not find out. Despite what he thinks he knows, he will not be able to figure it out.

I observed every activity done on earth. My conclusion: all of it is pointless like chasing after the wind.

At the end of 40 days, they all returned from exploring the land,

But God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God.

So the men started out, following Joshua's command to those who went to scout the land, "Go through the land and record a description of it, and then return to me. I will then cast lots in the presence of the LORD your God in Shiloh."

Just as you explored the land for 40 days, you'll bear the consequences of your iniquities for 40 years one year for each day as you experience my hostility.

Moreover, besides being wise himself, the Teacher taught people what he had learned by listening, making inquiries, and composing many proverbs.

"Have you been to the source of the sea and walked about in the recesses of the deepest ocean?

"Send men to explore the land of Canaan that I'm about to give to the Israelis. Send one man to represent each of his ancestor's tribes, every one of them a distinguished leader among them."

However, Nun's son Joshua and Jephunneh's son Caleb, who had explored the land, remained alive.

Moses renamed Nun's son Hoshea to Joshua. Then he sent them out to explore the land of Canaan. He instructed them, "Go up from here through the Negev, then ascend to the hill country.

In him are stored all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

I decided to indulge in wine, while still remaining committed to wisdom. I also tried to indulge in foolishness, just enough to determine whether it was good for human beings under heaven given the short time of their lives.

To me, the very least of all the saints, this grace was given so that I might proclaim to the gentiles the immeasurable wealth of the Messiah

LORD, you have examined me; you have known me.

in understanding proverbs, clever sayings, words of the wise, and their riddles.

The conclusion of something is better than its beginning, and a patient attitude is more valuable than a proud one.

When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.

We also saw the Nephilim, the descendants of Anak. Compared to the Nephilim, as we see things, we're like grasshoppers, and that's their opinion of us!"

Caleb silenced the people on Moses' behalf and responded, "Let's go up and take control, because we can definitely conquer it."

For just as the body is one and yet has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, form a single body, so it is with the Messiah.

So they put out this false report to the Israelis about the land that they had explored: "The land that we've explored is one that devours its inhabitants. All the people whom we observed were giants.

So tell them that as long as I live consider this to be an oracle from the LORD as certainly as you've spoken right into my ears, that's how I'm going to treat you.

A person's spirit is the lamp of the LORD; it searches throughout one's innermost being.

From Ephraim's tribe, Nun's son Hoshea;

Do not be conformed to this world, but continuously be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.

The Law of the LORD is perfect, restoring life. The testimony of the LORD is steadfast, making foolish people wise.

"Men will be assigned to travel continuously throughout the land, exploring for seven full months as they go about burying the bodies that remain from the battle on the surface of the ground, so that the land may be sterilized.

After this, Nun's son Joshua sent two men from the Acacia groves as undercover scouts. He told them, "Go and look over the land. Pay special attention to Jericho." So they went out, came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and lodged there.