Isaiah 55:6

God urges people to seek Him while He may be found and to call on Him while He is near. It matters because the offer of grace is urgent and not to be presumed upon.

Cross-references · 30

• Jer 29:12–14You shall call on me, and you shall go and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
• Ps 145:18Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
• Isa 45:19I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.
• Ps 32:6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
• Ps 14:2Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
• Isa 65:24It will happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
• Matt 7:7–8“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
• 2 Cor 6:1–2Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,
• Amos 5:6Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• John 12:35–36Jesus therefore said to them, “Yet a little while the light is with you. Walk while you have the light, that darkness doesn’t overtake you. He who walks in the darkness doesn’t know where he is going.
• Heb 2:3how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation — which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard;
• Ps 27:8When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”
• Job 8:5If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
• Deut 4:7For what great nation is there, that has a god so near to them, as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
• John 7:33–34Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer, then I go to him who sent me.
• Ps 95:7for he is our God. We are the people of his pasture, and the sheep in his care. Today, oh that you would hear his voice!
• Isa 49:8Yahweh says, “In an acceptable time I have answered you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you. I will preserve you, and give you for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage:
• Heb 3:13but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
• Matt 25:11–12Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us.’
• Isa 46:13I bring my righteousness near. It is not far off, and my salvation will not wait. I will grant salvation to Zion, my glory to Israel.
• Luke 13:25When once the master of the house has risen up, and has shut the door, and you begin to stand outside, and to knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open to us!’ then he will answer and tell you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’
• John 8:21Jesus 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.”
• Ps 148:14He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!
• Ezek 8:6He said to me, “Son of man, do you see what they do? Even the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But you will again see yet other great abominations.”
• 2 Chr 19:3Nevertheless there are good things found in you, in that you have put away the Asheroth out of the land, and have set your heart to seek God.”
• Ps 75:1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song. We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
• Eph 3:13Therefore I ask that you may not lose heart at my troubles for you, which are your glory.
• Matt 5:25Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
• Isa 12:6Cry aloud and shout, you inhabitant of Zion; for the Holy One of Israel is great among you!”

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