15 Bible Verses about Seeking For Abstract Things

The person seeking good will find favor, but anyone who searches for evil it will find him!

"Pursue good and not evil, so that you may live, and this is what will happen: The LORD God of the Heavenly Armies will be with you, as you have been claiming.

seek the LORD, all you humble people of the land, who do what he commands. Seek righteousness! Seek humility! Maybe you will be protected in the Day of the LORD's anger."

if you seek it like silver and search for it like hidden treasure,

I love those who love me, and those who seek me will find me.

"Then they will call out to me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me.

A discerning mind seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on stupidity.

He brought you near, along with all of your relatives, the descendants of Levi. Are you also seeking the priesthood?

Are you seeking great things for yourself? Don't seek them. Indeed, I'm about to bring disaster on all flesh,' declares the LORD, "but your life will be spared wherever you go.'"

and from then on he began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

Meanwhile, the high priests and the whole Council were looking for false testimony against Jesus in order to have him put to death.

Now as the crowds continued to throng around Jesus, he went on to say, "This people living today are an evil generation. It craves a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah,

You examine the Scriptures carefully because you suppose that in them you have eternal life. Yet they testify about me.

For they are ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God while they try to establish their own, and they have not submitted to God's means to attain righteousness.

What, then, does this mean? It means that Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking, but the selected group obtained it while the rest were hardened.