31 Bible Verses about exploring

Thus says the LORD: "If the heavens above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth below can be explored, then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel for all that they have done, declares the LORD."

And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land.

these things God has revealed to us through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the depths of God.

So the men arose and went, and Joshua charged those who went to write the description of the land, saying, "Go up and down in the land and write a description and return to me. And I will cast lots for you here before the LORD in Shiloh."

According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, a year for each day, you shall bear your iniquity forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.'

Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care.

"Have you entered into the springs of the sea, or walked in the recesses of the deep?

"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel. From each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, every one a chief among them."

Of those men who went to spy out the land, only Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh remained alive.

Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan and said to them, "Go up into the Negeb and go up into the hill country,

in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine--my heart still guiding me with wisdom--and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.

To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,

O LORD, you have searched me and known me!

to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.

Better is the end of a thing than its beginning, and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

When Enoch had lived 65 years, he fathered Methuselah.

And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them."

But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, "Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it."

For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.

So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height.

Say to them, 'As I live, declares the LORD, what you have said in my hearing I will do to you:

The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all his innermost parts.

from the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;

They will set apart men to travel through the land regularly and bury those travelers remaining on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it. At the end of seven months they will make their search.

And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.