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100 Bible Verses about Seeking Jesus

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 127 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 113 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 109 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 108 helpful votes

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Isaiah 55:6 ESV / 96 helpful votes

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

Psalm 105:4 ESV / 96 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Psalm 34:10 ESV / 95 helpful votes

The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Psalm 63:1 ESV / 94 helpful votes

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 85 helpful votes

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

Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 83 helpful votes

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Psalm 9:10 ESV / 83 helpful votes

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Luke 19:10 ESV / 74 helpful votes

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 71 helpful votes

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Amos 5:14 ESV / 69 helpful votes

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

Isaiah 65:1 ESV / 68 helpful votes

I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that was not called by my name.

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Psalm 139:1-2 ESV / 68 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

Psalm 119:45 ESV / 68 helpful votes

And I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 68 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 68 helpful votes

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

2 Chronicles 15:2 ESV / 68 helpful votes

And he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Amos 5:4 ESV / 67 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;

Isaiah 55:6-7 ESV / 62 helpful votes

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 61 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Acts 17:27 ESV / 59 helpful votes

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 58 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Psalm 14:2 ESV / 49 helpful votes

The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

Romans 3:11 ESV / 48 helpful votes

No one understands; no one seeks for God.

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 48 helpful votes

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

2 Corinthians 6:2 ESV / 47 helpful votes

For he says, “In a favorable time I listened to you, and in a day of salvation I have helped you.” Behold, now is the favorable time; behold, now is the day of salvation.

Luke 11:9-10 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Zechariah 8:20-23 ESV / 47 helpful votes

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Peoples shall yet come, even the inhabitants of many cities. The inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go at once to entreat the favor of the Lord and to seek the Lord of hosts; I myself am going.’ Many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem and to entreat the favor of the Lord. Thus says the Lord of hosts: In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue shall take hold of the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”

Zephaniah 2:3 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 29:11-14 ESV / 47 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

Psalm 27:8 ESV / 47 helpful votes

You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”

1 Chronicles 22:19 ESV / 47 helpful votes

Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the Lord.”

James 1:18 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Matthew 7:1-29 ESV / 45 helpful votes

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

John 17:3 ESV / 44 helpful votes

And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

Psalm 119:1-145:21 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart, who also do no wrong, but walk in his ways! You have commanded your precepts to be kept diligently. Oh that my ways may be steadfast in keeping your statutes! ...

Psalm 42:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

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

1 Chronicles 15:2 ESV / 44 helpful votes

Then David said that no one but the Levites may carry the ark of God, for the Lord had chosen them to carry the ark of the Lord and to minister to him forever.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 43 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

John 6:26 ESV / 42 helpful votes

Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.

James 4:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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

Colossians 3:1 ESV / 39 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 39 helpful votes

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 38 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Acts 17:26-27 ESV / 38 helpful votes

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

Lamentations 3:25 ESV / 38 helpful votes

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

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 38 helpful votes

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Psalm 40:16 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!”

Job 5:8-9 ESV / 38 helpful votes

“As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause, who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:

Deuteronomy 4:29 ESV / 38 helpful votes

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 37 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Acts 15:16-17 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“‘After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it, that the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things

John 3:16 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Matthew 13:44-46 ESV / 36 helpful votes

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

Luke 12:31 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

Amos 5:4-6 ESV / 35 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live; but do not seek Bethel, and do not enter into Gilgal or cross over to Beersheba; for Gilgal shall surely go into exile, and Bethel shall come to nothing.” Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

Hosea 10:12 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

2 Chronicles 15:12-15 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul, but that whoever would not seek the Lord, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman. They swore an oath to the Lord with a loud voice and with shouting and with trumpets and with horns. And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn with all their heart and had sought him with their whole desire, and he was found by them, and the Lord gave them rest all around.

1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 35 helpful votes

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

1 Chronicles 16:11-13 ESV / 35 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually! Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered, O offspring of Israel his servant, children of Jacob, his chosen ones!

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 ESV / 35 helpful votes

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

John 6:24 ESV / 34 helpful votes

So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

Amos 5:2 ESV / 34 helpful votes

“Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel; forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up.”

Isaiah 65:1-2 ESV / 34 helpful votes

I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that was not called by my name. I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

Isaiah 55:2 ESV / 34 helpful votes

Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.

Psalm 34:2 ESV / 34 helpful votes

My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad.

Psalm 9:10-12 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. Sing praises to the Lord, who sits enthroned in Zion! Tell among the peoples his deeds! For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

John 10:10 ESV / 33 helpful votes

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 31 helpful votes

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

John 14:6 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 29 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

John 10:4 ESV / 29 helpful votes

When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

John 6:44 ESV / 29 helpful votes

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

John 6:35 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.

John 6:27 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

Matthew 7:8 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Jeremiah 29:12-13 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Acts 16:31 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.”

Jeremiah 29:12-14 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

James 1:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Colossians 3:1-25 ESV / 24 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory. Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. ...

Romans 3:10-11 ESV / 24 helpful votes

As it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God.

John 5:30 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I seek not my own will but the will of him who sent me.

Mark 3:1-35 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Again he entered the synagogue, and a man was there with a withered hand. And they watched Jesus, to see whether he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse him. And he said to the man with the withered hand, “Come here.” And he said to them, “Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good or to do harm, to save life or to kill?” But they were silent. And he looked around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, and said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was restored. ...

Matthew 13:45 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls,

Matthew 13:44 ESV / 24 helpful votes

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Matthew 6:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Jeremiah 29:7 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.

Proverbs 28:5 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

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