10 Bible Verses about Seeking For Concrete Things

For all these are questions that Gentiles are always asking; but your Heavenly Father knows that you need these things--all of them.

"Again the Kingdom of the Heavens is like a jewel merchant who is in quest of choice pearls.

"Therefore, do not be asking what you are to eat nor what you are to drink; and do not waver between hope and fear.

For though the nations of the world pursue these things, as for you, your Father knows that you need them.

And He gave them the following parable. "A man," He said, "who had a fig-tree growing in his garden came to look for fruit on it and could find none.

So he said to the gardener, "'See, this is the third year I have come to look for fruit on this fig-tree and cannot find any. Cut it down. Why should so much ground be actually wasted?'

"Which of you men, if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in their pasture and go in search of the lost one till he finds it?

"Or what woman who has ten silver coins, if she loses one of them, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully till she finds it?

Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

for men who acknowledge this make it manifest that they are seeking elsewhere a country of their own.