'Seeks' in the Bible

And I will bring upon you a sword that seeks vengeance [for the] covenant, and you shall be gathered to your cities; and I will send a plague in your midst, and you shall be given into [the] hand of an enemy.

And if your countryman [is] not near you or you do not know {who he is}, then you shall bring it {to your household}, and it shall be with you {until your countryman seeks after it}, and you shall return it to him.

Stay with me! Do not fear, because he who seeks my life seeks your life. You are in good care with me."

For the king will listen, to deliver his servant from the hand of the man [who seeks] to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of God.'

It happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God to cause death or to give life? This man [is] sending a man to me to cure his disease. Indeed! But know and see that he seeks an opportunity against me."

[The] wicked watches for the righteous and seeks to kill him.

God looks down from heaven upon the children of humankind to see whether there is one who has insight, one who seeks God.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who inquires of evil, it will come to him.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, but there is none, but knowledge {comes easily to him who understands}.

He who loves transgression loves strife; he who builds his high thresholds seeks destruction.

He who is selfish seeks a craving; against all sound judgment he shows contempt.

She seeks wool and flax, and she works with the diligence of {her hands}.

The one who is [too] impoverished [for] a gift chooses wood [that] will not rot; he seeks a skillful artisan for himself to set up an image [that] will not be knocked over.

"Roam about through the streets of Jerusalem, and look please, and take note, and search at its public squares, if you can find a person [who] does justice, [who] seeks honesty, so that I may forgive it.

Yahweh is good to those who wait on him, to the person that seeks him.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, and a sign will not be given to it except the sign of Jonah!" And he left them [and] went away.

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses [it] will keep it.

But an hour is coming--and now is [here]--when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such [people] [to be] his worshipers.

The one who speaks from himself seeks his own glory. But the one who seeks the glory of the one who sent him--this one is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

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

[there] is no one who understands; [there] is no one who seeks God.