Psalms 14:2

God searches all humanity from heaven to find any who truly understand and seek him. It matters because God himself is the standard and judge of every heart.

Cross-references · 26

• Rom 3:11There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
• Ps 33:13–14The LORD looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
• Heb 11:6But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
• Ps 102:19–20For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth;
• Gen 6:12And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
• Matt 13:15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
• Dan 12:10Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
• 2 Chr 19:3Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.
• Ps 82:5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
• Isa 55:6Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
• Prov 2:9Then shalt thou understand righteousness, and judgment, and equity; yea, every good path.
• Jer 4:22For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Ps 92:6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
• Isa 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will shew them no favour.
• Prov 9:16Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
• Isa 63:15Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
• Prov 8:5O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
• Lam 3:50Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
• Gen 18:21I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
• Ps 107:43Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness of the LORD.
• Isa 8:19And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? for the living to the dead?
• 2 Chr 30:19That prepareth his heart to seek God, the LORD God of his fathers, though he be not cleansed according to the purification of the sanctuary.
• Gen 11:5And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
• Ps 69:32The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God.
• Prov 9:4Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
• Isa 64:1Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,

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