'Seek' in the Bible

Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, "Arise and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him."

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

"Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.

"What do you think? If a man has one hundred sheep, and one of them goes astray, doesn't he leave the ninety-nine, go to the mountains, and seek that which has gone astray?

The angel answered the women, "Don't be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus, who has been crucified.

He sighed deeply in his spirit, and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Most certainly I tell you, no sign will be given to this generation."

He said to them, "Don't be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!

Don't seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.

For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

But seek God's Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.

"Strive to enter in by the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will seek to enter in, and will not be able.

Or what woman, if she had ten drachma coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."

Becoming terrified, they bowed their faces down to the earth. They said to them, "Why do you seek the living among the dead?

I can of myself do nothing. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is righteous; because I don't seek my own will, but the will of my Father who sent me.

How can you believe, who receive glory from one another, and you don't seek the glory that comes from the only God?

Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, you seek me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate of the loaves, and were filled.

Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

Therefore some of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?

You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come."

What is this word that he said, 'You will seek me, and won't find me; and where I am, you can't come'?"

Jesus said therefore again to them, "I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sins. Where I go, you can't come."

I know that you are Abraham's seed, yet you seek to kill me, because my word finds no place in you.

But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God. Abraham didn't do this.

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

Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't come,' so now I tell you.

Jesus answered, "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way,"

While Peter was pondering the vision, the Spirit said to him, "Behold, three men seek you.

Peter went down to the men, and said, "Behold, I am he whom you seek. Why have you come?"

That the rest of men may seek after the Lord; All the Gentiles who are called by my name, Says the Lord, who does all these things.

that they should seek the Lord, if perhaps they might reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.

But if you seek anything about other matters, it will be settled in the regular assembly.

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;

Isaiah is very bold, and says, "I was found by those who didn't seek me. I was revealed to those who didn't ask for me."

"Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life."

Don't seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God's wrath. For it is written, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord."

For Jews ask for signs, Greeks seek after wisdom,

Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

Let no one seek his own, but each one his neighbor's good.

doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

So also you, since you are zealous for spiritual gifts, seek that you may abound to the building up of the assembly.

Behold, this is the third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I seek not your possessions, but you. For the children ought not to save up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

seeing that you seek a proof of Christ who speaks in me; who toward you is not weak, but is powerful in you.

They zealously seek you in no good way. No, they desire to alienate you, that you may seek them.

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

For we don't have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.

Let him turn away from evil, and do good. Let him seek peace, and pursue it.

In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.