10 Bible Verses about Seeking For Concrete Things

For these are all things the heathen are in pursuit of, and your heavenly Father knows well that you need all this.

"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dealer in search of fine pearls.

So you must not ask what you are to have to eat or drink, and you must not be anxious about it.

For these are all things the nations of the world are in pursuit of, and your Father knows well that you need them.

He used this figure: "A man had a fig tree growing in his garden, and he went to look for fruit on it, and could not find any.

And he said to the gardener, 'Here I have come three years to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any. Cut it down. Why should it waste the ground?'

"What man among you, if he has a hundred sheep, and loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go in search of the one that is lost, until he finds it?

Or what woman who has ten silver coins and loses one, does not light the lamp and sweep the house and look carefully until she finds it?

Just then his disciples came back, and they were surprised to find him talking with a woman, yet no one of them asked him what he wanted or why he was talking with her.

For men who recognize that show that they are in search of a country of their own.