Amos 5:4
For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
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Amos 5:4
For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;
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Genesis 45:28
Israel said, “It is enough. Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”
1 Chronicles 28:8
Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God, that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.
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 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 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.”
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 24:6
This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob. Selah.
Proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
Song of Solomon 3:2
I will get up 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 I didn’t find him.
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 34:16
Search in the book of Yahweh, and read: not one of these will be missing. None will lack her mate. For my mouth has commanded, and his Spirit has gathered them.
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.
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.
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Exodus 33:15
Moses said to him, “If your presence doesn’t go with me, don’t carry us up from here.
Proverbs 3:4
So you will find favor, and good understanding in the sight of God and man.
Proverbs 20:13
Don’t love sleep, lest you come to poverty. Open your eyes, and you shall be satisfied with bread.
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Deuteronomy 30:1
It shall happen, when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you shall call them to mind among all the nations where Yahweh your God has driven you,
Deuteronomy 30:2
and return to Yahweh your God and obey his voice according to all that I command you today, you and your children, with all your heart and with all your soul,
Deuteronomy 30:3
that then Yahweh your God will release you from captivity, have compassion on you, and will return and gather you from all the peoples where Yahweh your God has scattered you.
Deuteronomy 30:4
If your outcasts are in the uttermost parts of the heavens, from there Yahweh your God will gather you, and from there he will bring you back.
Deuteronomy 30:5
Yahweh your God will bring you into the land which your fathers possessed, and you will possess it. He will do you good, and increase your numbers more than your fathers.
Deuteronomy 30:6
Yahweh your God will circumcise your heart, and the heart of your offspring, to love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Deuteronomy 30:7
Yahweh your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted you.
Deuteronomy 30:8
You shall return and obey Yahweh’s voice, and do all his commandments which I command you today.
Jeremiah 29:14
I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”
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Joshua 15:30
Eltolad, Chesil, Hormah,
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1 Samuel 25:6
Tell him, ‘Long life to you! Peace be to you! Peace be to your house! Peace be to all that you have!
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2 Kings 3:11
But Jehoshaphat said, “Isn’t there a prophet of Yahweh here, that we may inquire of Yahweh by him?” One of the king of Israel’s servants answered, “Elisha the son of Shaphat, who poured water on the hands of Elijah, is here.”
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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 30:1
Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to Yahweh’s house at Jerusalem, to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 30:2
For the king had taken counsel with his princes and all the assembly in Jerusalem to keep the Passover in the second month.
2 Chronicles 30:3
For they could not keep it at that time, because the priests had not sanctified themselves in sufficient number, and the people had not gathered themselves together to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 30:4
The thing was right in the eyes of the king and of all the assembly.
2 Chronicles 30:5
So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beersheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the Passover to Yahweh, the God of Israel, at Jerusalem, for they had not kept it in great numbers in the way it is written.
2 Chronicles 30:6
So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, according to the commandment of the king, saying, “You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
2 Chronicles 30:7
Don’t be like your fathers and like your brothers, who trespassed against Yahweh, the God of their fathers, so that he gave them up to desolation, as you see.
2 Chronicles 30:8
Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
2 Chronicles 30:9
For if you turn again to Yahweh, your brothers and your children will find compassion with those who led them captive, and will come again into this land, because Yahweh your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you if you return to him.”
2 Chronicles 30:10
So the couriers passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, even to Zebulun, but people ridiculed them and mocked them.
2 Chronicles 30:11
Nevertheless some men of Asher, Manasseh, and Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.
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.”
Psalms 81:11
But my people didn’t listen to my voice. Israel desired none of me.
Hosea 11:2
They called to them, so they went from them. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to engraved images.
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Deuteronomy 12:5
But to the place which Yahweh your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, you shall seek his habitation, and you shall come there.
Deuteronomy 30:19
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants,
2 Chronicles 20:3
Jehoshaphat was alarmed, and set himself to seek to Yahweh. He proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.
Jeremiah 18:7
At the instant I speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it,
Jeremiah 26:2
“Yahweh says: ‘Stand in the court of Yahweh’s house, and speak to all the cities of Judah which come to worship in Yahweh’s house, all the words that I command you to speak to them. Don’t omit a word.
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.
Ezekiel 18:32
For I have no pleasure in the death of him who dies,” says the Lord Yahweh. “Therefore turn yourselves, and live!
Ezekiel 33:11
Tell them, ‘ “As I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live. Turn, turn from your evil ways! For why will you die, house of Israel?” ’
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.
Zephaniah 2:1
Gather yourselves together, yes, gather together, you nation that has no shame,
Malachi 3:7
From the days of your fathers you have turned away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you,” says Yahweh of Armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’
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2 Chronicles 20:20
They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
Proverbs 4:4
He taught me, and said to me: “Let your heart retain my words. Keep my commandments, and live.
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Psalms 10:4
The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.
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 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 119:12
Blessed are you, Yahweh. Teach me your statutes.
Romans 2:7
to those who by perseverance in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;
Romans 3:11
There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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Psalms 22:26
The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.
Psalms 37:3
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
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Psalms 32:6
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
Psalms 69:13
But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.
Ecclesiastes 3:6
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
Matthew 5:25
Agree with your adversary quickly while you are with him on the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
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 21:36
Therefore be watchful all the time, praying that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will happen, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
John 7:34
You will seek me and won’t find me. You can’t come where I am.”
2 Corinthians 6:2
For he says, “At an acceptable time I listened to you. In a day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
Hebrews 3:13
but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.
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Psalms 69:33
For Yahweh hears the needy, and doesn’t despise his captive people.
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Proverbs 10:24
What the wicked fear will overtake them, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
Proverbs 15:8
The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 58:1
“Cry aloud! Don’t spare! Lift up your voice like a trumpet! Declare to my people their disobedience, and to the house of Jacob their sins.
Isaiah 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.
Isaiah 58:3
‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you don’t see? Why have we afflicted our soul, and you don’t notice?’ “Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and oppress all your laborers.
Hosea 8:3
Israel has cast off that which is good. The enemy will pursue him.
Malachi 3:13
“Your words have been harsh against me,” says Yahweh. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against you?’
Malachi 3:14
You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God,’ and ‘What profit is it that we have followed his instructions and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Armies?
Matthew 15:8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
Matthew 15:9
And they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’ ”
James 4:3
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
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Ecclesiastes 9:4
For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
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Jeremiah 3:12
Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, ‘Return, you backsliding Israel,’ says Yahweh; ‘I will not look in anger on you, for I am merciful,’ says Yahweh. ‘I will not keep anger forever.
Jeremiah 3:13
Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,’ ” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 3:14
“Return, backsliding children,” says Yahweh, “for I am a husband to you. I will take one of you from a city, and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion.
Jeremiah 4:1
“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
Jeremiah 4:2
and you will swear, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ in truth, in justice, and in righteousness. The nations will bless themselves in him, and they will glory in him.”
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Isaiah 64:7
There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.
Jeremiah 10:21
For the shepherds have become brutish, and have not inquired of Yahweh. Therefore they have not prospered, and all their flocks have scattered.
Daniel 9:13
As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil has come on us. Yet we have not entreated the favor of Yahweh our God, that we should turn from our iniquities and have discernment in your truth.
Hosea 7:7
They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges. All their kings have fallen. There is no one among them who calls to me.
Hosea 7:13
Woe to them! For they have wandered from me. Destruction to them! For they have trespassed against me. Though I would redeem them, yet they have spoken lies against me.
Hosea 7:14
They haven’t cried to me with their heart, but they howl on their beds. They assemble themselves for grain and new wine. They turn away from me.
Hosea 7:15
Though I have taught and strengthened their arms, yet they plot evil against me.
Zephaniah 1:6
those who have turned back from following Yahweh, and those who haven’t sought Yahweh nor inquired after him.
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Hosea 5:6
They will go with their flocks and with their herds to seek Yahweh, but they won’t find him. He has withdrawn himself from them.
Amos 4:4
“Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
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Hosea 11:7
My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.
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Amos 3:7
Surely the Lord Yahweh will do nothing, unless he reveals his secret to his servants the prophets.
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Amos 3:8
The lion has roared. Who will not fear? The Lord Yahweh has spoken. Who can but prophesy?
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Amos 4:12
“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
Amos 5:17
In all vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.
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Amos 5:1
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
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Amos 1:3
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron;
Amos 2:6
Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Israel, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals;
Amos 5:10
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
Amos 5:11
Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but you will not dwell in them. You have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine.
Amos 5:12
For I know how many are your offenses, and how great are your sins— you who afflict the just, who take a bribe, and who turn away the needy in the courts.
Amos 5:13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.
Amos 7:17
Therefore Yahweh says: ‘Your wife shall be a prostitute in the city, and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword, and your land shall be divided by line; and you yourself shall die in a land that is unclean, and Israel shall surely be led away captive out of his land.’ ”
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.
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Amos 5:24
But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
Amos 5:25
“Did you bring to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, house of Israel?
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Amos 9:7
Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Amos 9:8
Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
Amos 9:9
“For behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
Amos 9:12
that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” says Yahweh who does this.
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Matthew 2:6
‘You Bethlehem, land of Judah, are in no way least among the princes of Judah; for out of you shall come a governor who shall shepherd my people, Israel.’ ”
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Ezekiel 20:11
I gave them my statutes and showed them my ordinances, which if a man does, he will live in them.
Matthew 19:17
He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but one, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”
Luke 10:27
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:28
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Galatians 5:14
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
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1 Thessalonians 3:8
For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
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