Seeking God
75 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
61 sections
- Afflictions Designed to Lead To
- Asa
- Blessedness of
- Commanded
- Daniel
- David
- Ends in Praise
- Ensures: Being Heard of Him
- Ensures: Gifts of Righteousness
- Ensures: His Being Found
- Ensures: His Favour
- Ensures: His not Forsaking Us
- Ensures: His Protection
- Ensures: Life
- Ensures: Prosperity
- Ensures: Understanding all Things
- Ezra
- Hezekiah
- Imperative Upon All
- Includes Seeking: Christ
- Includes Seeking: His Commandments
- Includes Seeking: His Face
- Includes Seeking: His Kingdom
- Includes Seeking: His Name
- Includes Seeking: His Precepts
- Includes Seeking: His Righteousness
- Includes Seeking: His Strength
- Includes Seeking: His Word
- Includes Seeking: Honor Which Comes from Him
- Includes Seeking: Justification by Christ
- Includes Seeking: The City Which God Has Prepared
- Jehoshaphat
- Josiah
- Leads to Joy
- None, by Nature, are Found to be Engaged In
- Promise Connected With
- Punishment of Those Who Neglect
- Saints: Characterised By
- Saints: Desirous of
- Saints: Early In
- Saints: Earnest In
- Saints: Engage In, with the Whole Heart
- Saints: Prepare Their Hearts For
- Saints: Purpose, in Heart
- Saints: Set Their Hearts To
- Saints: Specially Exhorted To
- Shall be Rewarded
- should be Evermore
- should be Immediate
- should be in the Day of Trouble
- should be While he May be Found
- should Be with Diligence
- should Be with the Heart
- The Wicked are Gone out of the Way of
- The Wicked: Not Led To, by Affliction
- The Wicked: Prepare not Their Hearts For
- The Wicked: Refuse, Through Pride
- The Wicked: Rejected, when Too Late In
- The Wicked: Sometimes Pretend To
- They Who Neglect Denounced
- Uzziah
Afflictions Designed to Lead To
- Psalm 78:33–34 So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror. …
- Hosea 5:15 Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”
Asa
- 2 Chronicles 14:7 So he said to the people of Judah, “Let us build these cities and surround them with walls and towers, with doors and bars. The land is still ours because we have sought the LORD our God. We have sought Him, and He has given us …
Blessedness of
- Psalm 119:2 Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart.
Commanded
- Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
- Matthew 7:7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.
Daniel
- Daniel 9:3–4 So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes. …
David
- Psalm 34:4 I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.
Ends in Praise
- Psalm 22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
Ensures: Being Heard of Him
- Psalm 34:4 I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.
Ensures: Gifts of Righteousness
- Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
Ensures: His Being Found
- Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- 1 Chronicles 28:9 As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by …
- Proverbs 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
- Jeremiah 29:13 You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
Ensures: His Favour
- Lamentations 3:25 The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.
Ensures: His not Forsaking Us
- Psalm 9:10 Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
Ensures: His Protection
- Ezra 8:22 For 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 …
Ensures: Life
- Psalm 69:32 The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
- Amos 5:4 For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
- Amos 5:6 Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
Ensures: Prosperity
- Job 8:5–6 But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy, …
- Psalm 34:10 Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Ensures: Understanding all Things
- Proverbs 28:5 Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.
Ezra
- Ezra 7:10 For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the LORD, to practice it, and to teach its statutes and ordinances in Israel.
Hezekiah
- 2 Chronicles 31:21 He acted with all his heart in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.
Imperative Upon All
- Isaiah 8:19 When men tell you to consult mediums and spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?
Includes Seeking: Christ
- Malachi 3:1 “Behold, I will send My messenger, who will prepare the way before Me. Then the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to His temple — the Messenger of the covenant, in whom you delight — see, He is coming,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Luke 2:15–16 When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.” …
Includes Seeking: His Commandments
- 1 Chronicles 28:8 So 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 …
- Malachi 2:7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the LORD of Hosts.
Includes Seeking: His Face
- Psalm 27:8 My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
- Psalm 105:4 Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
Includes Seeking: His Kingdom
- Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
- Luke 12:31 But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added unto you.
Includes Seeking: His Name
- Psalm 83:16 Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.
Includes Seeking: His Precepts
- Psalm 119:45 And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.
- Psalm 119:94 I am Yours; save me, for I have sought Your precepts.
Includes Seeking: His Righteousness
- Matthew 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
Includes Seeking: His Strength
- 1 Chronicles 16:11 Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
- Psalm 105:4 Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
Includes Seeking: His Word
- Isaiah 34:16 Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.
Includes Seeking: Honor Which Comes from Him
- John 5:44 How can you believe if you accept glory from one another, yet do not seek the glory that comes from the only God?
Includes Seeking: Justification by Christ
- Galatians 2:16–17 know that a man is not justified by works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have believed in Christ Jesus, that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law …
Includes Seeking: The City Which God Has Prepared
- Hebrews 11:10 For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
- Hebrews 11:16 Instead, they were longing for a better country, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for He has prepared a city for them.
- Hebrews 13:14 For here we do not have a permanent city, but we are looking for the city that is to come.
Jehoshaphat
- 2 Chronicles 17:3–4 Now the LORD was with Jehoshaphat because he walked in the earlier ways of his father David. He did not seek the Baals, …
Josiah
- 2 Chronicles 34:3 In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still young, Josiah began to seek the God of his father David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherah poles, the carved idols, …
Leads to Joy
- Psalm 70:4 May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”
- Psalm 105:3 Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
None, by Nature, are Found to be Engaged In
- Psalm 14:2 The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.
- Romans 3:11 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God.
- Luke 12:23 For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.
- Luke 12:30 For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
Promise Connected With
- Psalm 69:32 The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!
Punishment of Those Who Neglect
- Zephaniah 1:4–6 “I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests — …
Saints: Characterised By
- Psalm 24:6 Such is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek Your face, O God of Jacob. Selah
Saints: Desirous of
- Job 5:8 However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—
Saints: Early In
- Job 8:5 But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy,
- Psalm 63:1 O God, You are my God. Earnestly I seek You; my soul thirsts for You. My body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water.
- Isaiah 26:9 My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.
Saints: Earnest In
- Song of Solomon 3:2 I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
- Song of Solomon 3:4 I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
Saints: Engage In, with the Whole Heart
- 2 Chronicles 15:12 Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul.
- Psalm 119:10 With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.
Saints: Prepare Their Hearts For
- 2 Chronicles 30:19 who sets his heart on seeking God — the LORD, the God of his fathers — even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”
Saints: Purpose, in Heart
- Psalm 27:8 My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
Saints: Set Their Hearts To
- 2 Chronicles 11:16 Those from every tribe of Israel who had set their hearts to seek the LORD their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.
Saints: Specially Exhorted To
- Zephaniah 2:3 Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
Shall be Rewarded
- Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
should be Evermore
- Psalm 105:4 Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.
should be Immediate
- Hosea 10:12 Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
should be in the Day of Trouble
- Psalm 77:2 In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.
should be While he May be Found
- Isaiah 55:6 Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.
should Be with Diligence
- Hebrews 11:6 And without faith it is impossible to please God. For anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.
should Be with the Heart
- Deuteronomy 4:29 But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- 1 Chronicles 22:19 Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Begin building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the temple that will be built for …
The Wicked are Gone out of the Way of
- Psalm 14:2–3 The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God. …
- Romans 3:11–12 There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. …
The Wicked: Not Led To, by Affliction
- Isaiah 9:13 But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.
The Wicked: Prepare not Their Hearts For
- 2 Chronicles 12:14 And Rehoboam did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the LORD.
The Wicked: Refuse, Through Pride
- Psalm 10:4 In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.
The Wicked: Rejected, when Too Late In
- Proverbs 1:28 Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
The Wicked: Sometimes Pretend To
- Ezra 4:2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families, saying, “Let us build with you because, like you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to Him since the time of King Esar-haddon of Assyria, who brought us here.”
- Isaiah 58:2 For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
They Who Neglect Denounced
- Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
Uzziah
- 2 Chronicles 26:5 He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.