'Seek' in the Bible

And on their having withdrawn, lo, a messenger of the Lord doth appear in a dream to Joseph, saying, 'Having risen, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and be thou there till I may speak to thee, for Herod is about to seek the child to destroy him.'

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

'Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

And he answering said to them, 'A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

'A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

What think ye? if a man may have an hundred sheep, and there may go astray one of them, doth he not -- having left the ninety-nine, having gone on the mountains -- seek that which is gone astray?

And the messenger answering said to the women, 'Fear not ye, for I have known that Jesus, who hath been crucified, ye seek;

and having found him, they say to him, -- 'All do seek thee;'

and a multitude was sitting about him, and they said to him, 'Lo, thy mother and thy brethren without do seek thee.'

and having sighed deeply in his spirit, he saith, 'Why doth this generation seek after a sign? Verily I say to you, no sign shall be given to this generation.'

And he saith to them, 'Be not amazed, ye seek Jesus the Nazarene, the crucified: he did rise -- he is not here; lo, the place where they laid 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 the multitudes crowding together upon him, he began to say, 'This generation is evil, a sign it doth seek after, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet,

And ye -- seek not what ye may eat, or what ye may drink, and be not in suspense,

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

but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

'Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

'Or what woman having ten drachms, if she may lose one drachm, doth not light a lamp, and sweep the house, and seek carefully till that she may find?

Whoever may seek to save his life, shall lose it; and whoever may lose it, shall preserve it.

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

and on their having become afraid, and having inclined the face to the earth, they said to them, 'Why do ye seek the living with the dead?

And Jesus having turned, and having beheld them following, saith to them, 'What seek ye?' and they said to them, 'Rabbi, (which is, being interpreted, Teacher,) where remainest thou?'

but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;

'I am not able of myself to do anything; according as I hear I judge, and my judgment is righteous, because I seek not my own will, but the will of the Father who sent me.

how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that is from God alone ye seek not?

Jesus answered them and said, 'Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;

'He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;

hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'

The multitude answered and said, 'Thou hast a demon, who doth seek to kill thee?'

ye will seek me, and ye shall not find; and where I am, ye are not able to come.'

what is this word that he said, Ye will seek me, and ye shall not find? and, Where I am, ye are not able to come?'

therefore said Jesus again to them, 'I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

'I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

and now, ye seek to kill me -- a man who hath spoken to you the truth I heard from God; this Abraham did not;

and I do not seek my own glory; there is who is seeking and is judging;

Little children, yet a little am I with you; ye will seek me, and, according as I said to the Jews -- Whither I go away, ye are not able to come, to you also I do say it now.

Jesus, therefore, knew that they were wishing to ask him, and he said to them, 'Concerning this do ye seek one with another, because I said, A little while, and you do not behold me, and again a little while, and ye shall see me?

Jesus, therefore, knowing all things that are coming upon him, having gone forth, said to them, 'Whom do ye seek?'

Again, therefore, he questioned them, 'Whom do ye seek?' and they said, 'Jesus the Nazarene;'

Jesus answered, 'I said to you that I am he; if, then, me ye seek, suffer these to go away;'

Jesus saith to her, 'Woman, why dost thou weep? whom dost thou seek;' she, supposing that he is the gardener, saith to him, 'Sir, if thou didst carry him away, tell me where thou didst lay him, and I will take him away;'

and the Lord saith unto him, 'Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, one by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he doth pray,

And Peter thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, 'Lo, three men do seek thee;

and Peter having come down unto the men who have been sent from Cornelius unto him, said, 'Lo, I am he whom ye seek, what is the cause for which ye are present?'

And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus, to seek for Saul,

that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.

to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, -- though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

'And if ye seek after anything concerning other matters, in the legal assembly it shall be determined;

to those, indeed, who in continuance of a good work, do seek glory, and honour, and incorruptibility -- life age-during;

'Lord, Thy prophets they did kill, and Thy altars they dug down, and I was left alone, and they seek my life;'

What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

Since also Jews ask a sign, and Greeks seek wisdom,

Hast thou been bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; hast thou been loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

let no one seek his own -- but each another's.

doth not act unseemly, doth not seek its own things, is not provoked, doth not impute evil,

Pursue the love, and seek earnestly the spiritual things, and rather that ye may prophecy,

so also ye, since ye are earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, for the building up of the assembly seek that ye may abound;

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

since a proof ye seek of the Christ speaking in me, who to you is not infirm, but is powerful in you,

for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.

for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,

not that I seek after the gift, but I seek after the fruit that is overflowing to your account;

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country;

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

concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy,

let him turn aside from evil, and do good, let him seek peace and pursue it;

and in those days shall men seek the death, and they shall not find it, and they shall desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.