'Found' in the Bible

Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

He who walks blamelessly walks surely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.

Wisdom is found on the lips of him who has discernment, but a rod is for the back of him who is void of understanding.

so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul; if you have found it, then there will be a reward, your hope will not be cut off.

Have you found honey? Eat as much as is sufficient for you, lest you eat too much, and vomit it.

Don't you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

"Behold, I have found this," says the Preacher, "one to another, to find out the scheme;

which my soul still seeks; but I have not found. One man among a thousand have I found; but I have not found a woman among all those.

Behold, this only have I found: that God made man upright; but they search for many schemes."

Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

The watchmen who go about the city found me; "Have you seen him whom my soul loves?"

I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.

The watchmen who go about the city found me. They beat me. They bruised me. The keepers of the walls took my cloak away from me.

Oh that you were like my brother, who nursed from the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.

I am a wall, and my breasts like towers, then I was in his eyes like one who found peace.

As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols, whose engraved images exceeded those of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

My hand has found the riches of the peoples like a nest, and like one gathers eggs that are abandoned, have I gathered all the earth. There was no one who moved their wing, or that opened their mouth, or chirped."

Everyone who is found will be thrust through. Everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.

Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing, so that there won't be found among the broken piece a piece good enough to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."

No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.

So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah, for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.

Hezekiah was pleased with them, and showed them the house of his precious things, the silver, and the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, and all the house of his armor, and all that was found in his treasures. There was nothing in his house, nor in all his dominion, that Hezekiah didn't show them.

For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Seek Yahweh while he may be found; call you on him while he is near:

You were wearied with the length of your way; yet you didn't say, 'It is in vain.' You found a reviving of your strength; therefore you weren't faint.

"I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.

Thus says Yahweh, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, 'Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it:' so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

Thus says Yahweh, "What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after vanity, and are become vain?

As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and their prophets;

Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.

For among my people are found wicked men. They watch, as fowlers lie in wait. They set a trap. They catch men.

Yahweh said to me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

Your words were found, and I ate them; and your words were to me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by your name, Yahweh, God of Armies.

for both prophet and priest are profane; yes, in my house have I found their wickedness, says Yahweh.

I will be found by you, says Yahweh, and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh; and I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.

Thus says Yahweh, The people who were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

Ishmael also killed all the Jews who were with him, [to wit], with Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans who were found there, the men of war.

But ten men were found among those who said to Ishmael, Don't kill us; for we have stores hidden in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he stopped, and didn't kill them among their brothers.

then they took all the men, and went to fight with Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that are in Gibeon.

For wasn't Israel a derision to you? was he found among thieves? for as often as you speak of him, you shake your head.

All who found them have devoured them; and their adversaries said, We are not guilty, because they have sinned against Yahweh, the habitation of righteousness, even Yahweh, the hope of their fathers.

In those days, and in that time, says Yahweh, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I leave as a remnant.

I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren't aware: you are found, and also caught, because you have striven against Yahweh.

and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and seven men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe of the captain of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.

All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you; They hiss and gnash the teeth; they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

I sought for a man among them, who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

I will make you a terror, and you shall no more have any being; though you are sought for, yet you will never be found again, says the Lord Yahweh.

You were perfect in your ways from the day that you were created, until unrighteousness was found in you.

The king talked with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah: therefore stood they before the king.

In every matter of wisdom and understanding, concerning which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters who were in all his realm.

Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus to him, I have found a man of the children of the captivity of Judah, who will make known to the king the interpretation.

Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them: and the stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

There is a man in your kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him; and the king Nebuchadnezzar your father, the king, [I say], your father, made him master of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and soothsayers;

because an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and showing of dark sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation.

I have heard of you, that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

TEKEL; you are weighed in the balances, and are found wanting.

Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

Then these men assembled together, and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God.

My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me; because as before him innocence was found in me; and also before you, O king, have I done no hurt.

Then was the king exceeding glad, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no kind of harm was found on him, because he had trusted in his God.

Then he shall turn his face toward the fortresses of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.

"At that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who stands for the children of your people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone who shall be found written in the book.

I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness. I saw your fathers as the first ripe in the fig tree at its first season; but they came to Baal Peor, and consecrated themselves to the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

Their heart is divided. Now they will be found guilty. He will demolish their altars. He will destroy their sacred stones.

Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,

Ephraim said, "Surely I have become rich, I have found myself wealth. In all my wealth they won't find in me any iniquity that is sin."

Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; from me your fruit is found."

But Jonah rose up to flee to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh. He went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid its fare, and went down into it, to go with them to Tarshish from the presence of Yahweh.

Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.

The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid."

The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.

Now the birth of Jesus Christ was like this; for after his mother, Mary, was engaged to Joseph, before they came together, she was found pregnant by the Holy Spirit.

He sent them to Bethlehem, and said, "Go and search diligently for the young child. When you have found him, bring me word, so that I also may come and worship him."

When Jesus heard it, he marveled, and said to those who followed, "Most certainly I tell you, I haven't found so great a faith, not even in Israel.

"Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

who having found one pearl of great price, he went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

"But that servant went out, and found one of his fellow servants, who owed him one hundred denarii, and he grabbed him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, 'Why do you stand here all day idle?'

Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, "Let there be no fruit from you forever!" Immediately the fig tree withered away.

Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.

He came to the disciples, and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "What, couldn't you watch with me for one hour?

He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.

and they found none. Even though many false witnesses came forward, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came forward,

As they came out, they found a man of Cyrene, Simon by name, and they compelled him to go with them, that he might carry his cross.

and they found him, and told him, "Everyone is looking for you."

Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.

She went away to her house, and found the child having been laid on the bed, with the demon gone out.

They went away, and found a young donkey tied at the door outside in the open street, and they untied him.

Seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came to see if perhaps he might find anything on it. When he came to it, he found nothing but leaves, for it was not the season for figs.

His disciples went out, and came into the city, and found things as he had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.

He came and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, "Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn't you watch one hour?

Again he returned, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they didn't know what to answer him.

Now the chief priests and the whole council sought witnesses against Jesus to put him to death, and found none.

When he found out from the centurion, he granted the body to Joseph.

The angel said to her, "Don't be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor with God.

They came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the baby was lying in the feeding trough.

It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.

The book of the prophet Isaiah was handed to him. He opened the book, and found the place where it was written,