'Seek' in the Bible

Seek the welfare of the city I have deported you to. Pray to the Lord on its behalf, for when it has prosperity, you will prosper.”

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

But as for you, do you seek great things for yourself? Stop seeking! For I am about to bring disaster on every living creature’—this is the Lord’s declaration—‘but I will grant you your life like the spoils of war wherever you go.’”

In those days and at that time—this is the Lord’s declaration—the Israelites and Judeans will come together,weeping as they come,and will seek the Lord their God.

Anguish is coming!They will seek peace, but there will be none.

Disaster after disaster will come,and there will be rumor after rumor.Then they will seek a vision from a prophet,but instruction will perish from the priestsand counsel from the elders.

“I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bandage the injured, and strengthen the weak, but I will destroy the fat and the strong. I will shepherd them with justice.

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petitions, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

She will pursue her lovers but not catch them;she will seek them but not find them.Then she will think,“I will go back to my former husband,for then it was better for me than now.”

Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the Lord their God and David their king. They will come with awe to the Lord and to His goodness in the last days.

They go with their flocks and herdsto seek the Lordbut do not find Him;He has withdrawn from them.

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

Israel’s arrogance testifies against them,yet they do not return to Yahweh their God,and for all this, they do not seek Him.

Sow righteousness for yourselvesand reap faithful love;break up your unplowed ground.It is time to seek the Lorduntil He comes and sends righteousnesson you like the rain.

For the Lord says to the house of Israel:Seek Me and live!

Do not seek Bethelor go to Gilgalor journey to Beer-sheba,for Gilgal will certainly go into exile,and Bethel will come to nothing.

Seek Yahweh and live,or He will spread like firethroughout the house of Joseph;it will consume everything,with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

Seek good and not evilso that you may live,and the Lord, the God of Hosts,will be with you,as you have claimed.

You also will become drunk;you will hide yourself.You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

and those who turn back from following the Lord,who do not seek the Lord or inquire of Him.

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the earth,who carry out what He commands.Seek righteousness, seek humility;perhaps you will be concealedon the day of the Lord’s anger.

the residents of one city will go to another, saying: Let’s go at once to plead for the Lord’s favor and to seek the Lord of Hosts. I am also going.

Many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the Lord of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead for the Lord’s favor.”

I am about to raise up a shepherd in the land who will not care for those who are going astray, and he will not seek the lost or heal the broken. He will not sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the fat sheep and tear off their hooves.

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts.

Didn’t the one God make us with a remnant of His life-breath? And what does the One seek? A godly offspring. So watch yourselves carefully, and do not act treacherously against the wife of your youth.

“See, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear the way before Me. Then the Lord you seek will suddenly come to His temple, the Messenger of the covenant you desire—see, He is coming,” says the Lord of Hosts.

For the idolaters eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be provided for you.

“But seek His kingdom, and these things will be provided for you.

For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save the lost.”

“I can do nothing on My own. I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.

How can you believe? While accepting glory from one another, you don’t seek the glory that comes from the only God.

I do not seek My glory; the One who seeks it also judges.

so the rest of humanitymay seek the Lord—even all the Gentileswho are called by My name,declares the Lord who does these things,

He did this so they might seek God, and perhaps they might reach out and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

eternal life to those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor, and immortality;

For the Jews ask for signs and the Greeks seek wisdom,

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be loosed. Are you loosed from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

No one should seek his own good, but the good of the other person.

So also you—since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in building up the church.

since you seek proof of Christ speaking in me. He is not weak toward you, but powerful among you.

all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the profit that is increasing to your account.

So if you have been raised with the Messiah, seek what is above, where the Messiah is, seated at the right hand of God.

and we didn’t seek glory from people, either from you or from others.

to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

Now without faith it is impossible to please God, for the one who draws near to Him must believe that He exists and rewards those who seek Him.

For we do not have an enduring city here; instead, we seek the one to come.

and he must turn away from eviland do what is good.He must seek peace and pursue it,

In those days people will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will flee from them.