6 Bible Verses about Seeking For Abstract Things

So from that time Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

Meanwhile the Chief Priests and the whole of the High Council were trying to get such false evidence against Jesus, as would warrant putting him to death,

As the crowds increased, Jesus began to speak: "This generation is a wicked generation. It is asking a sign, but no sign shall be given it except the sign of Jonah.

You search the Scriptures, because you think that you find in them Immortal Life;

For, in their ignorance of the Divine Righteousness, and in their eagerness to set up a righteousness of their own, they refused to accept with submission the Divine Righteousness.

What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.