59 Bible Verses about seeking
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But rather, seek ye first the kingdom of heaven, and the righteousness thereof; and all these things shall be ministered unto you.
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
but seek after peace and prosperity of the city wherein ye be prisoners, and pray unto God for it. For in the peace thereof, shall your peace be.
But now will I speak of the LORD, and talk of God:
God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand, or seek after God.
That they should seek God, if they might feel and find him: though he be not far from every one of us.
This is the generation of them that seek him, even of them that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah
One thing have I desired of the LORD, which I will require, even that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the fair beauty of the LORD, and to visit his temple.
Seek the LORD, and his strength; seek his face evermore.
For all others seek their own, and not that which is Jesus Christ's.
And he made means to see Jesus, what he should be: and he could not for the press, because he was of a low stature.
I understood of all the works of God, that it is not possible for a man, to attain unto works that are done under the Sun: and though he bestow his labour to seek them out, yet can he not reach unto them: yea, though a wise man would undertake to know them, yet might he not find them.
Ye shall seek me, and shall not find me: And where I am, thither can ye not come."
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not hear: they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me.
But without faith it is impossible to please him: For he that cometh to God, must believe that God is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek him.
Abide with me and fear not: he that seeketh thy soul shall seek mine, and with me thou shalt be in safeguard."
If ye be then risen again with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the righthand of God.
Seek through the scripture of the LORD and read it: There shall none of these things be left out, there shall not one, nor such like, fail. For what his mouth commandeth, that same doth his spirit gather together or fulfill.
So that they shall go from the one sea to the other, yea from the north unto the east, running about to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.
The lions do lack, and suffer hunger; but they who seek the LORD shall want no manner of thing that is good.
Preach I man's doctrine or God's? Other go I about to please men? If I studied to please men, I were not the servant of Christ.
Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant, that seeketh good pearls,
Such as be lost, will I seek; such as go astray, will I bring again; such as be wounded, will I bind up; such as be weak, will I make strong; such as be fat and well liking, those will I preserve and feed them with the thing that is lawful.
Jesus answered them and said, "Verily, verily I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles: but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled.
Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.
Look through Jerusalem, behold and see. Seek through her streets also within, if ye can find one man, that doth equal and right, or that laboureth to be faithful: and I shall spare him, sayeth the LORD.
And Jesus turned about, and saw them follow, and said unto them, "What seek ye?" They said unto him, "Rabbi," which is to say, by interpretation, "Master: where dwellest thou?"
They shall seek me, that hitherto have not asked for me, they shall find me, that hitherto have not sought me. Then shall I say immediately to the people that never called upon my name, "I am here, I am here."
Topics on Seeking
Advice, Seeking Advice
Proverbs 12:15Look: what a fool taketh in hand, he thinketh it well done; but he that is wise, will be counseled.
Crowds Seeking
Luke 4:42As soon as it was day, he departed and went away into a desert place, and the people sought him and came to him, and kept him that he should not depart from them.
Many Seeking Salvation
Matthew 13:17"Verily I say unto you, that many prophets and perfect men have desired to see those things which ye see, and have not seen them; and to hear those things which ye hear, and have not heard them.
Not Seeking God
Psalm 14:2The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that would understand and seek after God.
Not Seeking People
Leviticus 19:31Turn not to them that work with spirits, neither regard them that observe dismal days, that ye be not defiled by them: for I am the LORD your God.
Seeking A Sign
Genesis 24:14Now the damsel to whom I say, 'stoop down thy pitcher, and let me drink.' If she say, 'Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also,' the same is she that thou hast ordained for thy servant Isaac: yea, and thereby shall I know that thou hast showed mercy on my master.
Seeking But Not Finding People
Song of Solomon 3:1By night in my bed I sought him, whom my soul loveth: yea, diligently sought I him, but I found him not.
Seeking Christ
Mark 1:37And when they had found him, they said unto him, "All men seek for thee."
Seeking Food
Leviticus 25:20"'If ye shall say: What shall we eat the seventh year inasmuch as we shall not sow nor gather in our increase?
Seeking For Abstract Things
Proverbs 11:27He that laboureth for honesty findeth his desire; but whoso seeketh after mischief, it shall happen unto him.
Seeking For Concrete Things
Leviticus 10:16And Moses sought for the goat that was the sin offering, and see, it was burnt. And he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar the sons of Aaron, which were left alive, saying,
Seeking God
Acts 17:27That they should seek God, if they might feel and find him: though he be not far from every one of us.
Seeking Honour
Proverbs 25:27Like as it is not good to eat too much honey; even so, he that will search out high things, it shall be too heavy for him.
Seeking Life
Luke 17:33Whosoever will go about to save his life, shall lose it: And whosoever shall lose his life, shall save it.
Seeking Signs
Isaiah 7:11"Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God, from alow beneath, or from on high above."
Seeking The Favour Of God
Galatians 1:10Preach I man's doctrine or God's? Other go I about to please men? If I studied to please men, I were not the servant of Christ.
Seeking The Welfare
Jeremiah 29:7but seek after peace and prosperity of the city wherein ye be prisoners, and pray unto God for it. For in the peace thereof, shall your peace be.
Seeking Things Above
Colossians 3:1-2If ye be then risen again with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the righthand 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 also longeth after thee, in a barren and dry land where no water is.