1 Chronicles 19:3
And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Is it, in thine eyes, to honour thy father that David has sent comforters to thee? Is it not to search and overthrow, and to spy out the land that his servants are come to thee?
Genesis 42:9-18
And Joseph remembered the dreams that he had dreamt of them; and he said to them, Ye are spies: to see the exposed places of the land ye are come.
Joshua 2:1-3
And Joshua the son of Nun sent from Shittim two spies secretly, saying, Go, see the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and they lay down there.
Judges 1:23-24
And the house of Joseph sent to spy out Bethel. (Now the name of the city was formerly Luz.)
Judges 18:2
So the Danites sent five able men from the whole number of their tribe, from Zorah and from Esh'ta-ol, to spy out the land and to explore it; and they said to them, "Go and explore the land." And they came to the hill country of E'phraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
Judges 18:8-10
And when they came to their brethren at Zorah and Esh'ta-ol, their brethren said to them, "What do you report?"
1 Samuel 29:4
But the princes of the Philistines were wroth with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go again to his place where thou hast appointed him, that he go not down with us to the battle, that in the battle he be not an adversary to us; for wherewith should this fellow reconcile himself to his master? should it not be with the heads of these men?
1 Samuel 29:9
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art acceptable to me, as an angel of God; nevertheless the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.
1 Kings 12:8-11
But he forsook the advice of the old men which they had given him, and consulted with the young men, who had grown up with him, that stood before him.
1 Corinthians 13:5-7
does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,