Isaiah 45:19

God has spoken openly and truthfully, not in secret riddles; he does not tell his people to seek him in vain. He can be found.

Cross-references · 38

• Isa 48:16Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
• Num 23:19–20God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
• Amos 5:4For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
• Jer 29:13–14You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
• Prov 30:5Every word of God is flawless; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him.
• John 18:20“I have spoken openly to the world,” Jesus answered. “I always taught in the synagogues and at the temple, where all the Jews come together. I said nothing in secret.
• Ps 9:10Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
• Jas 4:3And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
• Mal 3:13–14“Your words against Me have been harsh,” says the LORD. “Yet you ask, ‘What have we spoken against You?’
• Ps 111:7–8The works of His hands are truth and justice; all His precepts are trustworthy.
• Ps 69:32The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
• Prov 15:8The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable to the LORD, but the prayer of the upright is His delight.
• 1 Chr 28:8So now in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of the LORD, and in the hearing of our God, keep and seek out all the commandments of the LORD your God, so that you may possess this good land and leave it as an inheritance to your descendants forever.
• Prov 8:1–4Does not wisdom call out, and understanding raise her voice?
• Isa 8:19When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
• Deut 29:29The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
• Isa 1:15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
• Ps 19:7–10The Law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is trustworthy, making wise the simple.
• Ps 119:137–138Righteous are You, O LORD, and upright are Your judgments.
• Ps 69:13But my prayer to You, O LORD, is for a time of favor. In Your abundant loving devotion, O God, answer me with Your sure salvation.
• Isa 63:1Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah with crimson-stained garments? Who is this robed in splendor, marching in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming vindication, mighty to save.”
• Deut 30:11–14For this commandment I give you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
• 2 Chr 15:2So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
• Matt 15:8–9‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
• Isa 58:1–3“Cry aloud, do not hold back! Raise your voice like a ram’s horn. Declare to My people their transgression and to the house of Jacob their sins.
• John 7:37–39On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
• Acts 2:4–8And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
• Ezra 8:22For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”
• Ps 24:6Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
• John 7:28Then Jesus, still teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You know Me, and you know where I am from. I have not come of My own accord, but He who sent Me is true. You do not know Him,
• Ps 12:6The words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace, like gold purified sevenfold.
• Prov 1:21in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:
• John 7:26Yet here He is, speaking publicly, and they are not saying anything to Him. Have the rulers truly recognized that this is the Christ?
• Deut 32:4He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.
• Isa 55:6–7Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
• Isa 45:23By Myself I have sworn; truth has gone out from My mouth, a word that will not be revoked: Every knee will bow before Me, every tongue will swear allegiance.
• Isa 43:9–10All the nations gather together and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and proclaim to us the former things? Let them present their witnesses to vindicate them, so that others may hear and say, “It is true.”
• Prov 8:6Listen, for I speak of noble things, and the opening of my lips will reveal right.

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