'Seek' in the Bible
"Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
"But to you who are listening to me I say, Love your enemies; seek the welfare of those who hate you;
"So I say to you, 'Ask, and what you ask for shall be given to you; seek, and you shall find; knock, and the door shall be opened to you.'
For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."
For I have left Heaven and have come down to earth not to seek my own pleasure, but to do the will of Him who sent me.
Dear children, I am still with you a little longer. You will seek me, but, as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going you cannot come,' so for the present I say to you.
In order that the rest of mankind may earnestly seek the Lord--even all the nations which are called by My name,"
that they might seek God, if perhaps they could grope for Him and find Him. Yes, though He is not far from any one of us.
and that from among your own selves men will rise up who will seek with their perverse talk to draw away the disciples after them.
As for us who are strong, our duty is to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not seek our own pleasure.
For even the Christ did not seek His own pleasure. His principle was, "The reproaches which they addressed to Thee have fallen on me."
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to get free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.
Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek that of his fellow man.
That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.
But always seek to excel in the greater gifts. And now I will point out to you a way of life which transcends all others.
She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.
Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church.
On the contrary, as God's servants, we seek their full approval--by unwearied endurance, by afflictions, by distress, by helplessness;
For we seek not only God's approval of our integrity, but man's also.
If however you have risen with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, enthroned at God's right hand.
nor did we seek glory either from you or from any other mere men, although we might have stood on our dignity as Christ's Apostles.
See to it that no one ever repays another with evil for evil; but always seek opportunities of doing good both to one another and to all the world.
Earnestly seek to commend yourself to God as a servant who, because of his straightforward dealing with the word of truth, has no reason to feel any shame.
This letter which I am now writing to you, dear friends, is my second letter. In both my letters I seek to revive in your honest minds the memory of certain things,
Therefore, dear friends, since you have these expectations, earnestly seek to be found in His presence, free from blemish or reproach, in peace.
And at that time people will seek death, but will by no possibility find it, and will long to die, but death evades them.
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