'Seek' in the Bible

Now, they having departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appears in a dream to Joseph, saying, Arise, take to thee the little child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be there until I shall tell thee; for Herod will seek the little child to destroy it.

for all these things the nations seek after; for your heavenly Father knows that ye have need of all these things.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

What think ye? If a certain man should have a hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, does he not, leaving the ninety and nine on the mountains, go and seek the one that has gone astray?

And the angel answering said to the women, Fear not ye, for I know that ye seek Jesus the crucified one.

and having found him, they say to him, All seek thee.

And a crowd sat around him. And they said to him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren seek thee without.

And groaning in his spirit, he says, Why does this generation seek a sign? Verily I say unto you, A sign shall in no wise be given to this generation.

but he says to them, Be not alarmed. Ye seek Jesus, the Nazarene, the crucified one. He is risen, he is not here; behold the place where they had put him.

And I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you.

And ye, seek not what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink, and be not in anxiety;

for all these things do the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that ye have need of these things;

but seek his kingdom, and all these things shall be added to you.

Strive with earnestness to enter in through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter in and will not be able.

Or, what woman having ten drachmas, if she lose one drachma, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and seek carefully till she find it?

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose it shall preserve it.

for the Son of man has come to seek and to save that which is lost.

And as they were filled with fear and bowed their faces to the ground, they said to them, Why seek ye the living one among the dead?

But Jesus having turned, and seeing them following, says to them, What seek ye? And they said to him, Rabbi (which, being interpreted, signifies Teacher), where abidest thou?

I cannot do anything of myself; as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I do not seek my will, but the will of him that has sent me.

How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and seek not the glory which comes from God alone?

Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me not because ye have seen signs, but because ye have eaten of the loaves and been filled.

Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you practises the law? Why do ye seek to kill me?

Some therefore of those of Jerusalem said, Is not this he whom they seek to kill?

Ye shall seek me and shall not find me, and where I am ye cannot come.

What word is this which he said, Ye shall seek me and shall not find me; and where I am ye cannot come?

He said therefore again to them, I go away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin; where I go ye cannot come.

I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word has no entrance in you.

but now ye seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham.

But I do not seek my own glory: there is he that seeks and judges.

Children, yet a little while I am with you. Ye shall seek me; and, as I said to the Jews, Where I go ye cannot come, I say to you also now.

Jesus therefore, knowing all things that were coming upon him, went forth and said to them, Whom seek ye?

He demanded of them therefore again, Whom seek ye? And they said, Jesus the Nazaraean.

Jesus answered, I told you that I am he: if therefore ye seek me, let these go away;

And the Lord said to him, Rise up and go into the street which is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas one by name Saul, he is of Tarsus: for, behold, he is praying,

But as Peter continued pondering over the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee;

And Peter going down to the men said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause for which ye come?

And he went away to Tarsus to seek out Saul.

so that the residue of men may seek out the Lord, and all the nations on whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord, who does these things

that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:

to them who, in patient continuance of good works, seek for glory and honour and incorruptibility, life eternal.

Lord, they have killed thy prophets, they have dug down thine altars; and I have been left alone, and they seek my life.

Since Jews indeed ask for signs, and Greeks seek wisdom;

Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.

Let no one seek his own advantage, but that of the other.

does not behave in an unseemly manner, does not seek what is its own, is not quickly provoked, does not impute evil,

Thus ye also, since ye are desirous of spirits, seek that ye may abound for the edification of the assembly.

Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, (who is not weak towards you, but is powerful among you,

For do I now seek to satisfy men or God? or do I seek to please men? If I were yet pleasing men, I were not Christ's bondman.

For all seek their own things, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Not that I seek gift, but I seek fruit abounding to your account.

If therefore ye have been raised with the Christ, seek the things which are above, where the Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God:

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,

But without faith it is impossible to please him. For he that draws near to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who seek him out.

For they who say such things shew clearly that they seek their country.

but now they seek a better, that is, a heavenly; wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he has prepared for them a city.

for we have not here an abiding city, but we seek the coming one.

And let him avoid evil, and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it;

And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.