John 6:26

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Summary

Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

Ye seek

James 4:3

General references

Luke 14:25

Bible References

Ye seek

So Jesus, seeing that they meant to come and carry him off to make him king, retired again to the hill by himself.

But when Simon saw that the holy Spirit was imparted through the laying on of the apostles' hands, he offered them money,

Such men are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own base passions, and with their plausible and flattering talk they deceive simple-minded people.

For they are all looking out for their own interests, not for those of Jesus Christ.

They are doomed to destruction: their appetites are their god; they glory in their shame; they are absorbed in earthly matters.

and mutual irritation between people of depraved minds, who are lost to the truth and think of religion only as a means of gain.

You ask and fail to get them because you ask with wrong motives, to spend them on your pleasures.

General references

There were great crowds accompanying him, and once he turned and said to them,