'Seek' in the Bible

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.