'Seek' in the Bible

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

"So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

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

I can do nothing on my own initiative. 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 can you believe, if you accept praise from one another and don't seek the praise that comes from the only God?

so that the rest of humanity may seek the Lord, namely, all the Gentiles I have called to be my own,' says the Lord, who makes these things

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

And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, "I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me."

The one bound to a wife should not seek divorce. The one released from a wife should not seek marriage.

Do not seek your own good, but the good of the other person.

just as I also try to please everyone in all things. I do not seek my own benefit, but the benefit of many, so that they may be saved.

It is the same with you. Since you are eager for manifestations of the Spirit, seek to abound in order to strengthen the church.

They court you eagerly, but for no good purpose; they want to exclude you, so that you would seek them eagerly.

I do not say this because I am seeking a gift. Rather, I seek the credit that abounds to your account.

nor to seek glory from people, either from you or from others,

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

For here we have no lasting 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.

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