6 Bible Verses about Seeking For Abstract Things

And from that time he watched for a good opportunity to hand him over to them.

Now the high priests and the whole council were trying to get false testimony against Jesus, so that they might put him to death.

As the crowds pressed a round him, he went on to say, "This is a wicked age! It demands a sign, and no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah.

You pore over the Scriptures, for you think that you will find eternal life in them, and these very Scriptures testify to me,

For in their ignorance of God's way of uprightness and in the attempt to set up one of their own, they refused to conform to God's way of uprightness.

What follows? Israel failed to get what it sought, but those whom God selected got it.