"earnestly seek" | English Standard Version

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Ho 5:15 I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.Isa 26:9 My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks you. For when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.2Ti 1:17 but when he arrived in Rome he searched for me earnestly and found me—Jer 29:13 You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.2Co 8:17 For he not only accepted our appeal, but being himself very earnest he is going to you of his own accord.2Co 8:4 begging us earnestly for the favor of taking part in the relief of the saints—Mt 9:38 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”Ps 63:1 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.Ps 78:34 When he killed them, they sought him; they repented and sought God earnestly.Pr 2:4 if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures,Pr 11:27 Whoever diligently seeks good seeks favor, but evil comes to him who searches for it.Heb 13:19 I urge you the more earnestly to do this in order that I may be restored to you the sooner.1Th 3:10 as we pray most earnestly night and day that we may see you face to face and supply what is lacking in your faith?2Co 8:22 And with them we are sending our brother whom we have often tested and found earnest in many matters, but who is now more earnest than ever because of his great confidence in you.1Co 12:31 But earnestly desire the higher gifts. And I will show you a still more excellent way.Mr 5:10 And he begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country.Pr 7:15 so now I have come out to meet you, to seek you eagerly, and I have found you.Heb 6:11 And we desire each one of you to show the same earnestness to have the full assurance of hope until the end,Lu 7:4 And when they came to Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy to have you do this for him,1Ch 16:11 Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually!Ps 105:4 Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually!1Co 14:1 Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.Zep 2:3 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.1Pe 1:22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,2Co 8:8 I say this not as a command, but to prove by the earnestness of others that your love also is genuine.Ps 119:10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!1Co 14:39 So, my brothers, earnestly desire to prophesy, and do not forbid speaking in tongues.Job 8:5 If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,Job 10:6 that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,Lu 12:31 Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.De 4:29 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.Ac 26:7 to which our twelve tribes hope to attain, as they earnestly worship night and day. And for this hope I am accused by Jews, O king!Ps 24:6 Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah1Pe 4:8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.Ps 122:9 For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek your good.Php 4:17 Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.Ac 12:5 So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.Ps 119:2 Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,Ps 34:14 Turn away from evil and do good; seek peace and pursue it.2Co 7:11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.Lu 10:2 And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.Isa 55:6 “Seek the LORD while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;Pr 8:17 I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.Eze 34:11 “For thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I, I myself will search for my sheep and will seek them out.1Pe 3:11 let him turn away from evil and do good; let him seek peace and pursue it.Lu 22:15 And he said to them, “I have earnestly desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.Mt 7:8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.Lu 11:10 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.Lu 11:9 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.Job 5:8 “As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause,Lu 22:44 And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.Ro 3:11 no one understands; no one seeks for God.Ps 27:8 You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, LORD, do I seek.”Mt 6:33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.2Ch 15:12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul,Joh 8:50 Yet I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge.Mr 5:23 and implored him earnestly, saying, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well and live.”Mt 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.Ac 17:27 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,Pr 27:9 Oil and perfume make the heart glad, and the sweetness of a friend comes from his earnest counsel.Pr 18:15 An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.Ec 1:13 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.Isa 1:17 learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.Ps 119:176 I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, for I do not forget your commandments.Ps 38:12 Those who seek my life lay their snares; those who seek my hurt speak of ruin and meditate treachery all day long.Ro 12:13 Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.Joh 7:18 The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.Heb 13:14 For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.Ro 2:7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;Pr 1:28 Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.Ec 3:15 That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.Eze 34:12 As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered, so will I seek out my sheep, and I will rescue them from all places where they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.2Co 8:7 But as you excel in everything—in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you— see that you excel in this act of grace also.2Ch 20:4 And Judah assembled to seek help from the LORD; from all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.Ac 19:39 But if you seek anything further, it shall be settled in the regular assembly.Pr 31:13 She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands.La 3:25 The LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.2Ch 30:19 who sets his heart to seek God, the LORD, the God of his fathers, even though not according to the sanctuary’s rules of cleanness.”Ps 17:7 Wondrously show your steadfast love, O Savior of those who seek refuge from their adversaries at your right hand.Pr 15:14 The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.Am 5:4 For thus says the LORD to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;1Co 10:33 just as I try to please everyone in everything I do, not seeking my own advantage, but that of many, that they may be saved.Am 5:14 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.1Co 7:27 Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.Heb 11:14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland.Da 9:3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.Lu 12:30 For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.Lu 19:10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”Heb 11:6 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.Mt 6:32 For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.Ps 105:3 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!1Ch 16:10 Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice!Ps 53:2 God looks down from heaven on the children of man to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.So 3:2 I will rise now and go about the city, in the streets and in the squares; I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but found him not.1Co 1:22 For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,Lu 11:16 while others, to test him, kept seeking from him a sign from heaven.Ge 37:15 And a man found him wandering in the fields. And the man asked him, “What are you seeking?”1Co 10:24 Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.Joh 7:34 You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.”Pr 20:4 The sluggard does not plow in the autumn; he will seek at harvest and have nothing.