'Seeking' in the Bible

since you are seeking for proof of the Christ who speaks in me, and who is not weak toward you, but mighty in you.

For other "Good News" there is none; but there are some persons who are troubling you, and are seeking to distort the Good News concerning Christ.

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

But if we ourselves are also found to be “sinners” while seeking to be justified by Christ, is Christ then a promoter of sin? Absolutely not!

For all who depend on the Law [seeking justification and salvation by obedience to the Law and the observance of rituals] are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed (condemned to destruction) is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of the law, so as to practice them.”

You have been severed from Christ, you who are seeking to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.

the others proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely, seeking to cause me anxiety in my imprisonment.

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

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

But as God tested and approved us before entrusting us with His Good News, so in what we say we are seeking not to please men but to please God, who tests and approves our motives.

nor seeking of men glory, neither from you nor from others, being able to be burdensome, as Christ's apostles.

Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

Such women are always seeking instruction, yet never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

Now those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.

For here we do not have a lasting city, but we are seeking the city which is to come.

seeking to know what person or time the Spirit of Christ within them was indicating as He predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories to follow.

Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: