'Search' in the Bible

The wicked saith, in the haughtiness of his countenance, He doth not search out: all his thoughts are, There is no God!

Why has the evil-doer a low opinion of God, saying in his heart, You will not make search for it?

Break the arm of the wicked and the evildoer,Seek out his wickedness until You find no more.

Your hand will make a search for all your haters; your right hand will be hard on all those who are against you.

The poor will have a feast of good things: those who make search for the Lord will give him praise: your heart will have life for ever.

When you said, Make search for my face, my heart said to you, For your face will I make my search.

Be turned from evil, and do good; make a search for peace, desiring it with all your heart.

Yet a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more. You will search for his place, but he will not be there.

I was once young, now I am old. I have never seen a godly man abandoned, or his children forced to search for food.

But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

Let them go wandering up and down in search of food, and be there all night if they have not enough.

O God, you are my God; early will I make my search for you: my soul is dry for need of you, my flesh is wasted with desire for you, as a dry and burning land where no water is;

They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

When he sent death on them, then they made search for him; turning to him and looking for him with care;

Search for the Lord and for His strength;seek His face always.

I have made search for you with all my heart: O let me not go wandering far from your teaching.

So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.

Salvation is far from evil-doers; for they have made no search for your rules.

I have gone out of the way like a wandering sheep; make search for your servant; for I keep your teachings ever in mind.

You scrutinize my path and my lying down,And You are intimately acquainted with all my ways.

Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

Then they will call me, but I won’t answer;they will search for me, but won’t find me.

if you seek it like silverand search for it like hidden treasure,

So I came out to meet you,to search for you, and I’ve found you.

I love those who love me,and those who search for me find me.

He who is slow in his work does not go in search of food; but the ready worker gets much wealth.

The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

Those tarrying by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

I made a search with my heart to give pleasure to my flesh with wine, still guiding my heart with wisdom, and to go after foolish things, so that I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under the heavens all the days of their life.

And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

a time to search and a time to count as lost;a time to keep and a time to throw away;

Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.

I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:

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

Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

The Preacher made search for words which were pleasing, but his writing was in words upright and true.

"I will arise and look all around throughout the town, and throughout the streets and squares; I will search for my beloved." I searched for him but I did not find him.

Search and read the scroll of the Lord:Not one of them will be missing,none will be lacking its mate,because He has ordered it by my mouth,and He will gather them by His Spirit.

You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.

Make search for the Lord while he is there, make prayer to him while he is near:

Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.

Roam through the streets of Jerusalem.Look and take note;search in her squares.If you find one person,any who acts justly,who seeks to be faithful,then I will forgive her.

This is what the Lord has said: Take your place looking out on the ways; make search for the old roads, saying, Where is the good way? and go in it that you may have rest for your souls. But they said, We will not go in it.

I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing.

And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

In those days and at that time—this is the Lord’s declaration—one will search for Israel’s guilt,but there will be none,and for Judah’s sins,but they will not be found,for I will forgive those I leave as a remnant.

כ KafAll her people groanwhile they search for bread.They have traded their precious belongings for foodin order to stay alive.Lord, look and seehow I have become despised.

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

You have not made the diseased ones strong or made well that which was ill; you have not put bands on the broken or got back that which had been sent away or made search for the wandering ones; and the strong you have been ruling cruelly.

My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my flock was scattered upon all the face of the earth, and none did search or seek after them.

As I live, saith the Lord GOD, surely because my flock became a prey, and my flock became meat to every beast of the field, because there was no shepherd, neither did my shepherds search for my flock, but the shepherds fed themselves, and fed not my flock;

This is what the Lord has said: See I am against the keepers of the flock, and I will make search and see what they have done with my sheep, and will let them be keepers of my sheep no longer; and the keepers will no longer get food for themselves; I will take my sheep out of their mouths so that they may not be food for them.

For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

I will go in search of that which had gone wandering from the way, and will get back that which had been sent in flight, and will put bands on that which was broken, and give strength to that which was ill: but the fat and the strong I will give up to destruction; I will give them for their food the punishment which is theirs by right.

And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.

But as for you, Daniel, conceal these words and seal up the scroll until the end of time. Many will go back and forth and search anxiously [through the scroll], and knowledge [of the purpose of God as revealed by His prophets] will [greatly] increase.”

And if she goes after her lovers she will not overtake them; if she makes search for them she will not see them; then will she say, I will go back to my first husband, for then it was better for me than now.

And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.

They will go, with their flocks and their herds, in search of the Lord, but they will not see him; he has taken himself out of their view.

I will depart and return to My placeuntil they recognize their guilt and seek My face;they will search for Me in their distress.

And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; but for all this, they have not gone back to the Lord their God, or made search for him.

Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.

And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.

And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

You too will become drunk,You will be hidden.You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do good, neither will he do evil.

Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

for I am now raising up a shepherd in the land who will neither search for the lost, nor care for the young, nor fix the broken, nor sustain the healthy. Instead, he will devour the meat of the best of the sheep, tearing off their hoofs."

""At that time, I will search out and destroy all of the nations who have come against Jerusalem.

And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.

After they were gone, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, “Get up! Take the child and His mother, flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to search for the child to destroy Him.”

Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:

And into whatsoever city or village ye shall enter, search out who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go forth.

“Now when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man, it roams through waterless (dry, arid) places in search of rest, but it does not find it.

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls.

What do you think? If a man has 100 sheep, and one of them goes astray, won’t he leave the 99 on the hillside and go and search for the stray?

When they did not find Him, they returned to Jerusalem to search for Him.

“When the unclean spirit comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places in search [of a place] of rest; and not finding any, it says, ‘I will go back to my house (person) from which I came.’

For the nations of the world go in search of all these things: but your Father has knowledge that you have need of them.

"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 10 silver coins, if she loses one coin, does not light a lamp, sweep the house, and search carefully until she finds it?

For the Son of man came to make search for those who are wandering from the way, and to be their Saviour.

The women were terrified; but, as they stood with their faces bowed to the ground, the men said to them, "Why do you search among the dead for Him who is living?

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

They answered and said unto him, Art thou also of Galilee? Search, and look: for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet.

However, I am not seeking glory for Myself. There is One who seeks [glory for Me] and judges [those who dishonor Me].

And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;

Now while Peter was in doubt as to the purpose of this vision, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made search for Simon's house, came to the door,

Then he went to Tarsus to search for Saul,

so that the rest of the people may search for the Lord, including all the gentiles who are called by my name,' declares the Lord. "He is the one who has been doing these things

so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

Oh, how inexhaustible are God's resources and God's wisdom and God's knowledge! How impossible it is to search into His decrees or trace His footsteps!