'Seeks' in the Bible

Jonathan told David, saying, "Saul my father seeks to kill you. Now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself.

David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, "What have I done? What is my iniquity? What is my sin before your father, that he seeks my life?"

Stay with me, don't be afraid; for he who seeks my life seeks your life. For with me you shall be in safeguard."

Then David said, "O Yahweh, the God of Israel, your servant has surely heard that Saul seeks to come to Keilah, to destroy the city for my sake.

David said to Saul, "Why do you listen to men's words, saying, 'Behold, David seeks your hurt?'

David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, "Behold, my son, who came forth from my bowels, seeks my life. How much more this Benjamite, now? Leave him alone, and let him curse; for Yahweh has invited him.

Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, "Please notice how this man seeks mischief; for he sent to me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I didn't deny him."

It happened, when the king of Israel had read the letter, that he tore his clothes, and said, "Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me."

The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him.

He who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but he who searches after evil, it shall come to him.

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn't find it, but knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.

The heart of one who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.

An evil man seeks only rebellion; therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

The heart of the discerning gets knowledge. The ear of the wise seeks knowledge.

She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands.

That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.

which my soul still seeks; but I have not found. One man among a thousand have I found; but I have not found a woman among all those.

He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.

"Run back and forth through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places of it, if you can find a man, if there are any who does justly, who seeks truth; and I will pardon her.

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says Yahweh; because they have called you an outcast, [saying], It is Zion, whom no man seeks after.

Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

They shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him who seeks [to him];

As a shepherd seeks out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

He who seeks his life will lose it; and he who loses his life for my sake will find it.

But he answered them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, but no sign will be given it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and there will be no sign given to it, except the sign of the prophet Jonah." He left them, and departed.

For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

When the multitudes were gathering together to him, he began to say, "This is an evil generation. It seeks after a sign. No sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah, the prophet.

Whoever seeks to save his life loses it, but whoever loses his life preserves it.

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.

For no one does anything in secret, and himself seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world."

He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"

But I don't seek my own glory. There is one who seeks and judges.

There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn't obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

This is a faithful saying: if a man seeks the office of an overseer, he desires a good work.