6 Bible Verses about Seeking For Abstract Things

And from that time he sought an opportunity to deliver him up to them.

Now the chief priests and elders and the whole sanhedrim, sought false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death;

Then the multitudes thronging around him, he began to say, This is a wicked generation: it seeketh a sign, and no sign shall be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

Search the scriptures; for ye suppose in them ye have eternal life: and these are they which testify of me.

For being ignorant of the righteousness which is of God, and seeking to establish a righteousness of their own, they have not submitted to the righteousness of God.

What then is the result? Israel hath not obtained that which it seeketh; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded,