'Look' in the Bible

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

and said to Him, “Are You the Expected One, or shall we look for someone else?”

As these men were going away, Jesus began to speak to the crowds about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

“But when the king came in to look over the dinner guests, he saw a man there who was not dressed in wedding clothes,

Now after the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to look at the grave.

And He *said to them, “How many loaves do you have? Go look!” And when they found out, they *said, “Five, and two fish.”

Shall we pay or shall we not pay?” But He, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to look at.”

Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Summoning two of his disciples, John sent them to the Lord, saying, “Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?”

When the men came to Him, they said, “John the Baptist has sent us to You, to ask, ‘Are You the Expected One, or do we look for someone else?’”

When the messengers of John had left, He began to speak to the crowds about John, “What did you go out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken by the wind?

And a man from the crowd shouted, saying, “Teacher, I beg You to look at my son, for he is my only boy,

But they all alike began to make excuses. The first one said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of land and I need to go out and look at it; please consider me excused.’

But he answered and said to his father, ‘Look! For so many years I have been serving you and I have never neglected a command of yours; and yet you have never given me a young goat, so that I might celebrate with my friends;

nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or, ‘There it is!’ For behold, the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

They will say to you, ‘Look there! Look here!’ Do not go away, and do not run after them.

They said, “Lord, look, here are two swords.” And He said to them, “It is enough.”

Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.

Look, He is speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to Him. The rulers do not really know that this is the Christ, do they?

So the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you are not doing any good; look, the world has gone after Him.”

And again another Scripture says, “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.”

But Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him and said, “Look at us!”

When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight; and as he approached to look more closely, there came the voice of the Lord:

‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.’ Moses shook with fear and would not venture to look.

As they went along the road they came to some water; and the eunuch *said, “Look! Water! What prevents me from being baptized?”

And he left for Tarsus to look for Saul;

The apostles and the elders came together to look into this matter.

but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, look after it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters.”

Look at the nation Israel; are not those who eat the sacrifices sharers in the altar?

But if the ministry of death, in letters engraved on stones, came with glory, so that the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face, fading as it was,

and are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the sons of Israel would not look intently at the end of what was fading away.

while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Let no one look down on your youthfulness, but rather in speech, conduct, love, faith and purity, show yourself an example of those who believe.

It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, in these things which now have been announced to you through those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven—things into which angels long to look.

Therefore, beloved, since you look for these things, be diligent to be found by Him in peace, spotless and blameless,

And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the book or to look into it.

Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it;

Those from the peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will look at their dead bodies for three and a half days, and will not permit their dead bodies to be laid in a tomb.