'Seek' in the Bible

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to get free. Are you free from the marriage bond? Do not seek for a wife.

Let no one be for ever seeking his own good, but let each seek that of his fellow man.

That is the way that I also seek in everything the approval of all men, not aiming at my own profit, but at that of the many, in the hope that they may be saved.

But always seek to excel in the greater gifts. And now I will point out to you a way of life which transcends all others.

She does not behave unbecomingly, nor seek to aggrandize herself, nor blaze out in passionate anger, nor brood over wrongs.

Therefore, seeing that you are ambitious for spiritual gifts, seek to excel in them so as to benefit the Church.