59 Bible Verses about seeking
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But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.
And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
But as for me I will seek unto God, and unto God commit my cause;
God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth;
that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:
This is the generation of them that seek unto him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
One thing have I asked of Jehovah, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of Jehovah all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of Jehovah, and to inquire of him in his temple.
Seek Jehovah and his strength, seek his face continually;
For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.
And he sought to see Jesus who he was: and he could not for the crowd, because he was little in stature.
then I saw that all is the work of God, and that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however man may labour to seek it out, yet doth he not find it; and even, if a wise man think to know it, he shall not be able to find it out.
then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.
Abide with me, fear not; for he that seeks my life seeks thy life; for with me thou art in safe keeping.
If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God:
Search ye in the book of Jehovah and read: not one of these shall fail, one shall not have to seek for the other; for my mouth, it hath commanded, and his Spirit, it hath gathered them.
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of Jehovah, and shall not find it.
The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.
For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.
Again, the kingdom of the heavens is like a merchant seeking beautiful pearls;
I will seek the lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up the broken, and will strengthen that which was sick; but I will destroy the fat and the strong: I will feed them with judgment.
Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me not because ye have seen signs, but because ye have eaten of the loaves and been filled.
Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.
Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broadways thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that doeth justice, that seeketh fidelity; and I will pardon it.
But Jesus having turned, and seeing them following, says to them, What seek ye? And they said to him, Rabbi (which, being interpreted, signifies Teacher), where abidest thou?
I am sought out of them that inquired not for me, I am found of them that sought me not; I have said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
Topics on Seeking
Advice, Seeking Advice
Proverbs 12:15The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.
Crowds Seeking
Luke 4:42And when it was day he went out, and went into a desert place, and the crowds sought after him, and came up to him, and would have kept him back that he should not go from them.
Many Seeking Salvation
Matthew 13:17for verily I say unto you, that many prophets and righteous men have desired to see the things which ye behold and did not see them, and to hear the things which ye hear and did not hear them.
Not Seeking God
Psalm 14:2Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.
Not Seeking People
Leviticus 19:31Turn not unto necromancers and unto soothsayers; seek not after them to make yourselves unclean: I am Jehovah your God.
Seeking A Sign
Genesis 24:14And let it come to pass, that the maiden to whom I shall say, Let down thy pitcher, I pray thee, that I may drink, and who will say, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also, be she whom thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac; and hereby I shall know that thou hast dealt kindly with my master.
Seeking But Not Finding People
Song of Solomon 3:1On my bed, in the nights, I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
Seeking Food
Leviticus 25:20And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;
Seeking For Abstract Things
Proverbs 11:27He that is earnest after good seeketh favour; but he that searcheth for mischief, it shall come upon him.
Seeking For Concrete Things
Leviticus 10:16And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, and behold, it was burnt up: then he was wroth with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying,
Seeking God
Acts 17:27that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:
Seeking Honour
Proverbs 25:27It is not good to eat much honey; and to search into weighty matters is itself a weight.
Seeking Life
Luke 17:33Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.
Seeking Signs
Isaiah 7:11Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God; ask for it in the deep, or in the height above.
Seeking The Favour Of God
Galatians 1:10For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.
Seeking The Welfare
Jeremiah 29:7And seek the peace of the city whither I have caused you to be carried away captive, and pray unto Jehovah for it: for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace.
Seeking Things Above
Colossians 3:1-2If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God:
Seeking Water
Psalm 63:1{A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water: