'Seek' in the Bible

Now [after] they had gone away, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph, saying, "Get up, take the child and his mother and flee to Egypt, and stay there until I tell you. For Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him."

for the pagans seek after all these [things]. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these [things].

But seek first his kingdom and righteousness, and all these [things] will be added to you.

"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.

And I tell you, ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and it will be opened for you.

For all the nations of the world seek after these [things], and your Father knows that you need these [things].

But seek his kingdom and these [things] will be added to you.

"Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to,

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost."

And Jesus, turning around and seeing them following [him], said to them, "What do you seek?" And they said to him, "Rabbi" (which means [when] translated "Teacher"), "where are you staying?"

And at this [point] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

I am able to do nothing from myself. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my [own] will, but the will of the one who sent me.

How are you able to believe, [if you] accept glory from one another, and do not seek the glory [which is] from the only God?

Jesus replied to them and said, "Truly, truly I say to you, you seek me not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were satisfied!

Has not Moses given you the law, and none of you carries out the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come."

What is this saying that he said, 'You will seek me and will not find [me], and where I am, you cannot come'?"

So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!"

But I do not seek my [own] glory. There is one who seeks and judges!

Children, yet a little [time] I am with you. You will seek me and just as I said to the Jews, "Where I am going you cannot come," now I say also to you.

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles {who are called by my name}, says the Lord, who makes these [things]

to those who, by perseverance in good work, seek glory and honor and immortality, eternal life,

And Isaiah is very bold and says, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I became known to those who did not ask for me."

For indeed, Jews ask for sign miracles and Greeks seek wisdom,

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.

Let no one seek {his own good} but the [good] of the other.

In this way also you, since you are zealous of spiritual [gifts], seek for the edification of the church, in order that you may abound.

They zealously seek you, not commendably, but they want to exclude you, in order that you may seek them [zealously].

For they all seek {their own interests}, not those of Jesus Christ.

Not that I seek the gift, but I seek for the profit that increases to your account.

Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Now without faith [it is] impossible to please [him], for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For here we do not have a permanent city, but we seek the [city] that is to come.

And he must turn away from evil and do good; he must seek peace and pursue it.

And in those days people will seek death and will never find it, and they will long to die, and death will flee from them.