SEEKERS

Passages on this topic · 173

• Genesis 49:18

  I have waited for your salvation, Yahweh.

• Deuteronomy 4:29

  But from there you shall seek Yahweh your God, and you shall find him, when you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

• 1 Chronicles 16:11

  Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

• 1 Chronicles 22:19

  Now set your heart and your soul to follow Yahweh your God. Arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant and the holy vessels of God into the house that is to be built for Yahweh’s name.”

• 1 Chronicles 28:9

  You, 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.

• 2 Chronicles 11:16

  After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 14:7

  For he said to Judah, “Let us build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God. We have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side.” So they built and prospered.

• 2 Chronicles 15:2

  and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

• 2 Chronicles 15:12

  They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

• 2 Chronicles 15:13

  and that whoever would not seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

• 2 Chronicles 17:3

  Yahweh was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and didn’t seek the Baals,

• 2 Chronicles 17:4

  but sought to the God of his father, and walked in his commandments, and not in the ways of Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 26:5

  He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought Yahweh, God made him prosper.

• 2 Chronicles 30:18

  For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover other than the way it is written. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Yahweh pardon everyone

• 2 Chronicles 30:19

  who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

• 2 Chronicles 31:21

  In every work that he began in the service of God’s house, in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3

  For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.

• Ezra 7:10

  For Ezra had set his heart to seek Yahweh’s law, and to do it, and to teach statutes and ordinances in Israel.

• Ezra 8:22

  For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

• Job 5:8

  “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

• Job 8:5

  If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.

• Job 8:6

  If you were pure and upright, surely now he would awaken for you, and make the habitation of your righteousness prosperous.

• Psalms 9:10

  Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

• Psalms 14:2

  Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

• Psalms 17:1

  A Prayer by David. Hear, Yahweh, my righteous plea; Give ear to my prayer, that doesn’t go out of deceitful lips.

• Psalms 17:2

  Let my sentence come out of your presence. Let your eyes look on equity.

• Psalms 22:26

  The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

• Psalms 24:3

  Who may ascend to Yahweh’s hill? Who may stand in his holy place?

• Psalms 24:4

  He who has clean hands and a pure heart; who has not lifted up his soul to falsehood, and has not sworn deceitfully.

• Psalms 24:5

  He shall receive a blessing from Yahweh, righteousness from the God of his salvation.

• Psalms 24:6

  This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face — even Jacob. Selah.

• Psalms 25:5

  Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

• Psalms 25:15

  My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net.

• Psalms 27:4

  One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.

• Psalms 27:8

  When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

• Psalms 27:14

  Wait for Yahweh. Be strong, and let your heart take courage. Yes, wait for Yahweh.

• Psalms 33:20

  Our soul has waited for Yahweh. He is our help and our shield.

• Psalms 34:4

  I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

• Psalms 34:10

  The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger, but those who seek Yahweh shall not lack any good thing.

• Psalms 40:1

  For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. I waited patiently for Yahweh. He turned to me, and heard my cry.

• Psalms 40:2

  He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay. He set my feet on a rock, and gave me a firm place to stand.

• Psalms 40:3

  He has put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God. Many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in Yahweh.

• Psalms 40:4

  Blessed is the man who makes Yahweh his trust, and doesn’t respect the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies.

• Psalms 42:1

  For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.

• Psalms 42:2

  My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?

• Psalms 42:3

  My tears have been my food day and night, while they continually ask me, “Where is your God?”

• Psalms 42:4

  These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

• Psalms 63:1

  A Psalm by David, when he was in the desert of Judah. God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.

• Psalms 63:2

  So I have seen you in the sanctuary, watching your power and your glory.

• Psalms 63:3

  Because your loving kindness is better than life, my lips shall praise you.

• Psalms 63:4

  So I will bless you while I live. I will lift up my hands in your name.

• Psalms 63:5

  My soul shall be satisfied as with the richest food. My mouth shall praise you with joyful lips,

• Psalms 63:6

  when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.

• Psalms 63:7

  For you have been my help. I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.

• Psalms 63:8

  My soul stays close to you. Your right hand holds me up.

• Psalms 69:32

  The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

• Psalms 70:4

  Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

• Psalms 70:5

  But I am poor and needy. Come to me quickly, God. You are my help and my deliverer. Yahweh, don’t delay.

• Psalms 77:1

  For the Chief Musician. To Jeduthun. A Psalm by Asaph. My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me.

• Psalms 77:2

  In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted.

• Psalms 77:3

  I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

• Psalms 77:4

  You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.

• Psalms 77:5

  I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

• Psalms 77:6

  I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:

• Psalms 77:7

  “Will the Lord reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more?

• Psalms 77:8

  Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?

• Psalms 77:9

  Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?” Selah.

• Psalms 78:34

  When he killed them, then they inquired after him. They returned and sought God earnestly.

• Psalms 81:10

  I am Yahweh, your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it.

• Psalms 83:16

  Fill their faces with confusion, that they may seek your name, Yahweh.

• Psalms 84:2

  My soul longs, and even faints for the courts of Yahweh. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

• Psalms 105:4

  Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

• Psalms 119:2

  Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

• Psalms 119:10

  With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

• Psalms 130:5

  I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

• Psalms 130:6

  My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; more than watchmen for the morning.

• Psalms 143:6

  I spread out my hands to you. My soul thirsts for you, like a parched land. Selah.

• Psalms 145:18

  Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

• Psalms 145:19

  He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him. He also will hear their cry, and will save them.

• Proverbs 2:3

  Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

• Proverbs 2:4

  If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

• Proverbs 2:5

  then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

• Proverbs 3:1

  My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments:

• Proverbs 3:2

  for length of days, and years of life, and peace, will they add to you.

• Proverbs 3:3

  Don’t let kindness and truth forsake you. Bind them around your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

• Proverbs 3:4

  So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

• Proverbs 8:17

  I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

• Proverbs 8:34

  Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

• Proverbs 28:5

  Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

• Isaiah 8:19

  When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter:” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

• Isaiah 26:8

  Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you. Your name and your renown are the desire of our soul.

• Isaiah 26:9

  With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me will I seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

• Isaiah 44:3

  For I will pour water on him who is thirsty, and streams on the dry ground. I will pour my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your offspring:

• Isaiah 44:4

  and they will spring up among the grass, as willows by the watercourses.

• Isaiah 45:19

  I 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.

• Isaiah 45:22

  “Look to me, and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

• Isaiah 49:9

  saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

• Isaiah 49:10

  They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun strike them: for he who has mercy on them will lead them. He will guide them by springs of water.

• Isaiah 49:11

  I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted.

• Isaiah 49:12

  Behold, these shall come from afar; and behold, these from the north and from the west; and these from the land of Sinim.”

• Isaiah 49:23

  Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet; Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

• Isaiah 51:1

  “Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock you were cut from, and to the quarry you were dug from.

• Isaiah 55:6

  Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

• Isaiah 55:7

  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. Let him return to Yahweh, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God, for he will freely pardon.

• Isaiah 59:20

  “A Redeemer will come to Zion, and to those who turn from disobedience in Jacob,” says Yahweh.

• Isaiah 61:1

  The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;

• Isaiah 61:2

  to proclaim the year of Yahweh’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

• Isaiah 61:3

  to provide for those who mourn in Zion, to give to them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Yahweh, that he may be glorified.

• Jeremiah 29:13

  You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.

• Jeremiah 42:3

  that Yahweh your God may show us the way in which we should walk, and the thing that we should do.”

• Jeremiah 50:4

  “In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.

• Lamentations 3:25

  Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

• Lamentations 3:26

  It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

• Lamentations 3:41

  Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

• Ezekiel 18:21

  “But if the wicked turns from all his sins that he has committed, and keeps all my statutes, and does that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live. He shall not die.

• Ezekiel 18:22

  None of his transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him. In his righteousness that he has done, he shall live.

• Ezekiel 18:23

  Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked?” says the Lord Yahweh; “and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

• Daniel 9:3

  I set my face to the Lord God, to seek by prayer and petitions, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

• Daniel 9:4

  I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,

• Hosea 3:5

  Afterward the children of Israel shall return, and seek Yahweh their God, and David their king, and shall come with trembling to Yahweh and to his blessings in the last days.

• Hosea 5:15

  I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”

• Hosea 10:12

  Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap according to kindness. Break up your fallow ground; for it is time to seek Yahweh, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

• Joel 2:12

  “Yet even now,” says Yahweh, “turn to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.”

• Joel 2:13

  Tear your heart, and not your garments, and turn to Yahweh, your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and relents from sending calamity.

• Amos 5:4

  For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

• Amos 5:5

  but don’t seek Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and don’t pass to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing.

• Amos 5:6

  Seek 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.

• Amos 5:8

  seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

• Amos 5:14

  Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you, as you say.

• Amos 8:12

  They will wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word, and will not find it.

• Zephaniah 2:3

  Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

• Zechariah 8:20

  Yahweh of Armies says: “Many peoples, and the inhabitants of many cities will yet come;

• Zechariah 8:21

  and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’

• Zechariah 8:22

  Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”

• Zechariah 8:23

  Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”

• Matthew 2:1

  Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of King Herod, behold, wise men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

• Matthew 2:2

  “Where is he who is born King of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”

• Matthew 5:6

  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.

• Matthew 6:33

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

• Matthew 7:7

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

• Matthew 7:8

  For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

• Matthew 7:9

  Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?

• Matthew 7:10

  Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?

• Matthew 7:11

  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!

• Matthew 7:12

  Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.

• Luke 6:21

  Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

• Luke 11:9

  “I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

• Luke 11:10

  For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.

• Luke 11:11

  “Which of you fathers, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, he won’t give him a snake instead of a fish, will he?

• Luke 11:12

  Or if he asks for an egg, he won’t give him a scorpion, will he?

• Luke 11:13

  If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him?”

• Luke 13:24

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

• Luke 14:26

  “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

• Luke 14:27

  Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.

• Luke 14:28

  For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?

• Luke 14:29

  Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,

• Luke 14:30

  saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’

• Luke 14:31

  Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?

• Luke 14:32

  Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace.

• Luke 14:33

  So therefore whoever of you who doesn’t renounce all that he has, he can’t be my disciple.

• Luke 16:16

  The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the Good News of God’s Kingdom is preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

• John 6:37

  All those whom the Father gives me will come to me. He who comes to me I will in no way throw out.

• Acts 2:21

  It will be that whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

• Acts 17:27

  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.

• Romans 3:11

  There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

• Romans 10:13

  For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

• Hebrews 7:25

  Therefore he is also able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through him, seeing that he lives forever to make intercession for them.

• Hebrews 9:28

  so Christ also, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, without sin, to those who are eagerly waiting for him for salvation.

• Hebrews 11:6

  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.

• James 4:8

  Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

• Revelation 3:20

  Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

• Revelation 21:6

  He said to me, “I have become the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life.

• Revelation 22:17

  The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” He who hears, let him say, “Come!” He who is thirsty, let him come. He who desires, let him take the water of life freely.