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Bible Verses About Searching

This collection includes 50 passages about Searching. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

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For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.

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See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.

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And when they found him not, they turned back again to Jerusalem, seeking him.

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And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

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How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

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Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

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Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

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That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:

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Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

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And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

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Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

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And when they had found him, they said unto him, All men seek for thee.

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But when they in their trouble did turn unto the Lord God of Israel, and sought him, he was found of them.

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They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

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For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

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For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

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Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

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But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

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Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

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Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

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Why abodest thou among the sheepfolds, to hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of Reuben there were great searchings of heart.

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Jesus therefore, knowing all things that should come upon him, went forth, and said unto them, Whom seek ye?

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So they went up, and searched the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, as men come to Hamath.

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Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:

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The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.

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And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

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Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually.

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For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.

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For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:

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For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

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But, when he was in Rome, he sought me out very diligently, and found me.

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I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

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But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.

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What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?

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God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.

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Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

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Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

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