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159 Bible verses about Seeking God
Prayer becomes that bridge connecting you to God's presence. It's in those moments of loving communion with your Creator that you find comfort, guidance, and strength.
When you seek God's face, you're setting aside your burdens and worries, surrendering to His sovereignty and wisdom. In your search, you discover that God's face reflects His character—His unending love and mercy. You're immersed in His presence and experience His inexplicable peace amidst life's storms. You connect with the source of all that is good, finding fulfillment and purpose in His perfect plan for you.
It's through constant communication with Him that you become a willing and open vessel, ready to receive His words of life and guidance.
It's important to remember that seeking God's face takes persistence and faith. You won't always find immediate answers, but in your perseverance, you learn to trust in His perfect care and will.
Seeking God's face is an invitation to experience the intimacy and love of your Heavenly Father. In the midst of an uncertain and ever-changing world, His constant presence offers hope, comfort, and direction. So today, open your heart to God, seek His face, and discover the incomparable joy of being in communion with the Creator of the universe.
Now seek the Lord your God wholeheartedly and with your entire being! Get up and build the sanctuary of the Lord God! Then you can bring the ark of the Lord’s covenant and the holy items dedicated to God’s service into the temple that is built to honor the Lord.”
The Lord looks down from heaven at the human race, to see if there is anyone who is wise and seeks God.
Now without faith it is impossible to please him, for the one who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
so that they would search for God and perhaps grope around for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us.
Seek the Lord while he makes himself available; call to him while he is nearby!
The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the Lord, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the Lord, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.
“When that time comes,” says the Lord, “the people of Israel and Judah will return to the land together. They will come back with tears of repentance as they seek the Lord their God.
Seek the Lord’s favor, all you humble people of the land who have obeyed his commands! Strive to do what is right! Strive to be humble! Maybe you will be protected on the day of the Lord’s angry judgment.
Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.
Even young lions sometimes lack food and are hungry, but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.
I look for you during the night, my spirit within me seeks you at dawn, for when your judgments come upon the earth, those who live in the world learn about justice.
Those among all the Israelite tribes who were determined to worship the Lord God of Israel followed them to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the Lord God of their ancestors.
When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul,
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth – before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
O God, you are my God! I long for you! My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water.
And Isaiah is even bold enough to say, “I was found by those who did not seek me; I became well known to those who did not ask for me.”
But above all pursue his kingdom and righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
I have asked the Lord for one thing – this is what I desire! I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord and contemplate in his temple.
More than that, I now regard all things as liabilities compared to the far greater value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things – indeed, I regard them as dung! – that I may gain Christ,
and be found in him, not because I have my own righteousness derived from the law, but because I have the righteousness that comes by way of Christ’s faithfulness – a righteousness from God that is in fact based on Christ’s faithfulness.
As a deer longs for streams of water, so I long for you, O God!
My enemies’ taunts cut into me to the bone, as they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Why are you depressed, O my soul? Why are you upset? Wait for God! For I will again give thanks to my God for his saving intervention.
I thirst for God, for the living God. I say, “When will I be able to go and appear in God’s presence?”
if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
I have asked the Lord for one thing – this is what I desire! I want to live in the Lord’s house all the days of my life, so I can gaze at the splendor of the Lord and contemplate in his temple.
He will surely give me shelter in the day of danger; he will hide me in his home; he will place me on an inaccessible rocky summit.
I cried out with all my heart, “Answer me, O Lord! I will observe your statutes.”
I cried out to you, “Deliver me, so that I can keep your rules.”
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.
Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight.
And yearn like newborn infants for pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation,
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.
When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor.
Your loyal followers trust in you, for you, Lord, do not abandon those who seek your help.
But those who wait for the Lord’s help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.
In my distress I cried out to the Lord. The Lord answered me and put me in a wide open place.
Such purity characterizes the people who seek his favor, Jacob’s descendants, who pray to him. (Selah)
Therefore, if you have been raised with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
and have been clothed with the new man that is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of the one who created it.
Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.
Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience,
bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if someone happens to have a complaint against anyone else. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also forgive others.
And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.
Let the peace of Christ be in control in your heart (for you were in fact called as one body to this peace), and be thankful.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them.
Keep thinking about things above, not things on the earth,
Then they will call to me, but I will not answer; they will diligently seek me, but they will not find me.
Because they hated moral knowledge, and did not choose to fear the Lord,
Let the oppressed eat and be filled! Let those who seek his help praise the Lord! May you live forever!
Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.
But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.
Yes, in the sanctuary I have seen you, and witnessed your power and splendor.
Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you.
Don’t be afraid, for I am with you! Don’t be frightened, for I am your God! I strengthen you – yes, I help you – yes, I uphold you with my saving right hand!
indeed, if you call out for discernment – raise your voice for understanding –
if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,
then you will understand how to fear the Lord, and you will discover knowledge about God.
In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried out to my God. From his heavenly temple he heard my voice; he listened to my cry for help.
“‘For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Look, I myself will search for my sheep and seek them out.
As a shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his scattered sheep, so I will seek out my flock. I will rescue them from all the places where they have been scattered on a cloudy, dark day.
Examine me, and probe my thoughts! Test me, and know my concerns!
See if there is any idolatrous tendency in me, and lead me in the reliable ancient path!
‘Call on me in prayer and I will answer you. I will show you great and mysterious things which you still do not know about.’
Boast about his holy name! Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
Seek the Lord and the strength he gives! Seek his presence continually!
I look up toward the hills. From where does my help come?
My help comes from the Lord, the Creator of heaven and earth!
“Hey, all who are thirsty, come to the water! You who have no money, come! Buy and eat! Come! Buy wine and milk without money and without cost!
The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.
In the same way, the promise that I make does not return to me, having accomplished nothing. No, it is realized as I desire and is fulfilled as I intend.”
Indeed you will go out with joy; you will be led along in peace; the mountains and hills will give a joyful shout before you, and all the trees in the field will clap their hands.
Evergreens will grow in place of thorn bushes, firs will grow in place of nettles; they will be a monument to the Lord, a permanent reminder that will remain.
Why pay money for something that will not nourish you? Why spend your hard-earned money on something that will not satisfy? Listen carefully to me and eat what is nourishing! Enjoy fine food!
But I trust in you, O Lord! I declare, “You are my God!”
You determine my destiny! Rescue me from the power of my enemies and those who chase me.
If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
Even when I must walk in the midst of danger, you revive me. You oppose my angry enemies, and your right hand delivers me.
Yes, as your judgments unfold, O Lord, we wait for you. We desire your fame and reputation to grow.
Boast about his holy name! Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!
Their land was overrun by frogs, which even got into the rooms of their kings.
He ordered flies to come; gnats invaded their whole territory.
He sent hail along with the rain; there was lightning in their land.
He destroyed their vines and fig trees, and broke the trees throughout their territory.
He ordered locusts to come, innumerable grasshoppers.
They ate all the vegetation in their land, and devoured the crops of their fields.
He struck down all the firstborn in their land, the firstfruits of their reproductive power.
He brought his people out enriched with silver and gold; none of his tribes stumbled.
Egypt was happy when they left, for they were afraid of them.
He spread out a cloud for a cover, and provided a fire to light up the night.
Seek the Lord and the strength he gives! Seek his presence continually!
Therefore let us confidently approach the throne of grace to receive mercy and find grace whenever we need help.
But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father in secret. And your Father, who sees in secret, will reward you.
For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.
But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.
God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.
You lead me in the path of life; I experience absolute joy in your presence; you always give me sheer delight.
The one who diligently seeks good seeks favor, but the one who searches for evil – it will come to him.
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,
teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
They will not be hungry or thirsty; the sun’s oppressive heat will not beat down on them, for one who has compassion on them will guide them; he will lead them to springs of water.
O Lord, I come before you in prayer.
The Lord always proves faithful and reliable to those who follow the demands of his covenant.
For the sake of your reputation, O Lord, forgive my sin, because it is great.
The Lord shows his faithful followers the way they should live.
They experience his favor; their descendants inherit the land.
The Lord’s loyal followers receive his guidance, and he reveals his covenantal demands to them.
I continually look to the Lord for help, for he will free my feet from the enemy’s net.
Turn toward me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and oppressed!
Deliver me from my distress; rescue me from my suffering!
See my pain and suffering! Forgive all my sins!
Watch my enemies, for they outnumber me; they hate me and want to harm me.
My God, I trust in you. Please do not let me be humiliated; do not let my enemies triumphantly rejoice over me!
How blessed are those whose actions are blameless, who obey the law of the Lord.
With all my heart I seek you. Do not allow me to stray from your commands!
I am more discerning than those older than I, for I observe your precepts.
I stay away from the evil path, so that I might keep your instructions.
I do not turn aside from your regulations, for you teach me.
Your words are sweeter in my mouth than honey!
Your precepts give me discernment. Therefore I hate all deceitful actions. נ (Nun)
Your word is a lamp to walk by, and a light to illumine my path.
I have vowed and solemnly sworn to keep your just regulations.
I am suffering terribly. O Lord, revive me with your word!
O Lord, please accept the freewill offerings of my praise! Teach me your regulations!
My life is in continual danger, but I do not forget your law.
In my heart I store up your words, so I might not sin against you.
The wicked lay a trap for me, but I do not wander from your precepts.
I claim your rules as my permanent possession, for they give me joy.
I am determined to obey your statutes at all times, to the very end. ס (Samek) ֹ119:113 I hate people with divided loyalties, but I love your law.
You are my hiding place and my shield. I find hope in your word.
Turn away from me, you evil men, so that I can observe the commands of my God.
Sustain me as you promised, so that I will live. Do not disappoint me!
Support me, so that I will be delivered. Then I will focus on your statutes continually.
You despise all who stray from your statutes, for they are deceptive and unreliable.
You remove all the wicked of the earth like slag. Therefore I love your rules.
You deserve praise, O Lord! Teach me your statutes!
My body trembles because I fear you; I am afraid of your judgments. ע (Ayin)
I do what is fair and right. Do not abandon me to my oppressors!
Guarantee the welfare of your servant! Do not let the arrogant oppress me!
My eyes grow tired as I wait for your deliverance, for your reliable promise to be fulfilled.
Show your servant your loyal love! Teach me your statutes!
I am your servant. Give me insight, so that I can understand your rules.
It is time for the Lord to act – they break your law!
For this reason I love your commands more than gold, even purest gold.
For this reason I carefully follow all your precepts. I hate all deceitful actions. פ (Pe)
Your rules are marvelous. Therefore I observe them.
With my lips I proclaim all the regulations you have revealed.
Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.
I open my mouth and pant, because I long for your commands.
Turn toward me and extend mercy to me, as you typically do to your loyal followers.
Direct my steps by your word! Do not let any sin dominate me!
Deliver me from oppressive men, so that I can keep your precepts.
Smile on your servant! Teach me your statutes!
Tears stream down from my eyes, because people do not keep your law. צ (Tsade)
You are just, O Lord, and your judgments are fair.
The rules you impose are just, and absolutely reliable.
My zeal consumes me, for my enemies forget your instructions.
I rejoice in the lifestyle prescribed by your rules as if they were riches of all kinds.
Your word is absolutely pure, and your servant loves it!
I am insignificant and despised, yet I do not forget your precepts.
Your justice endures, and your law is reliable.
Distress and hardship confront me, yet I find delight in your commands.
Your rules remain just. Give me insight so that I can live. ק (Qof)
I cried out with all my heart, “Answer me, O Lord! I will observe your statutes.”
I cried out to you, “Deliver me, so that I can keep your rules.”
I am up before dawn crying for help. I find hope in your word.
My eyes anticipate the nighttime hours, so that I can meditate on your word.
Listen to me because of your loyal love! O Lord, revive me, as you typically do!
I will meditate on your precepts and focus on your behavior.
Those who are eager to do wrong draw near; they are far from your law.
You are near, O Lord, and all your commands are reliable.
I learned long ago that you ordained your rules to last. ר (Resh)
See my pain and rescue me! For I do not forget your law.
Fight for me and defend me! Revive me with your word!
The wicked have no chance for deliverance, for they do not seek your statutes.
Your compassion is great, O Lord. Revive me, as you typically do!
The enemies who chase me are numerous. Yet I do not turn aside from your rules.
I take note of the treacherous and despise them, because they do not keep your instructions.
See how I love your precepts! O Lord, revive me with your loyal love!
I find delight in your statutes; I do not forget your instructions. ג (Gimel)
Your instructions are totally reliable; all your just regulations endure. שׂ/שׁ (Sin/Shin)
Rulers pursue me for no reason, yet I am more afraid of disobeying your instructions.
I rejoice in your instructions, like one who finds much plunder.
I hate and despise deceit; I love your law.
Seven times a day I praise you because of your just regulations.
Those who love your law are completely secure; nothing causes them to stumble.
I hope for your deliverance, O Lord, and I obey your commands.
I keep your rules; I love them greatly.
I keep your precepts and rules, for you are aware of everything I do. ת (Tav)
Listen to my cry for help, O Lord! Give me insight by your word!
Be kind to your servant! Then I will live and keep your instructions.
Listen to my appeal for mercy! Deliver me, as you promised.
May praise flow freely from my lips, for you teach me your statutes.
May my tongue sing about your instructions, for all your commands are just.
May your hand help me, for I choose to obey your precepts.
I long for your deliverance, O Lord; I find delight in your law.
May I live and praise you! May your regulations help me!
I have wandered off like a lost sheep. Come looking for your servant, for I do not forget your commands.
Open my eyes so I can truly see the marvelous things in your law!
I am like a foreigner in this land. Do not hide your commands from me!
How blessed are those who observe his rules, and seek him with all their heart,
Throw your burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the godly to be upended.
The wicked man is so arrogant he always thinks, “God won’t hold me accountable; he doesn’t care.”
He gives strength to those who are tired; to the ones who lack power, he gives renewed energy.
Do not be anxious about anything. Instead, in every situation, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, tell your requests to God.
And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
From the deep water I cry out to you, O Lord.
O Lord, listen to me! Pay attention to my plea for mercy!
Turn to me so you can be delivered, all you who live in the earth’s remote regions! For I am God, and I have no peer.
May my words and my thoughts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my sheltering rock and my redeemer.
so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
And a son was also born to Seth, whom he named Enosh. At that time people began to worship the Lord.
As for you, the one who lives in the shelter of the sovereign One, and resides in the protective shadow of the mighty king –
Blessed is the one who is always cautious, but whoever hardens his heart will fall into evil.
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in him, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
All of your creatures wait for you to provide them with food on a regular basis.
You give food to them and they receive it; you open your hand and they are filled with food.
For this reason the Lord is ready to show you mercy; he sits on his throne, ready to have compassion on you. Indeed, the Lord is a just God; all who wait for him in faith will be blessed.
Support me, so that I will be delivered. Then I will focus on your statutes continually.
But as for me, God’s presence is all I need. I have made the sovereign Lord my shelter, as I declare all the things you have done.
eternal life to those who by perseverance in good works seek glory and honor and immortality,
My child, if you receive my words, and store up my commands within you,
For wisdom will enter your heart, and moral knowledge will be attractive to you.
Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,
to deliver you from the way of the wicked, from those speaking perversity,
who leave the upright paths to walk on the dark ways,
who delight in doing evil, they rejoice in perverse evil;
whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;
to deliver you from the adulteress, from the sexually loose woman who speaks flattering words;
who leaves the husband from her younger days, and forgets her marriage covenant made before God.
For her house sinks down to death, and her paths lead to the place of the departed spirits.
None who go in to her will return, nor will they reach the paths of life.
by making your ear attentive to wisdom, and by turning your heart to understanding,
So you will walk in the way of good people, and will keep on the paths of the righteous.
For the upright will reside in the land, and those with integrity will remain in it,
but the wicked will be removed from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.
indeed, if you call out for discernment – raise your voice for understanding –
if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,
then you will understand how to fear the Lord, and you will discover knowledge about God.
“Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward.
But accumulate for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.
with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Wicked men will be wiped out, but those who rely on the Lord are the ones who will possess the land.
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
Certainly his loyal followers will soon experience his deliverance; then his splendor will again appear in our land.
So then, dear brothers and sisters, be firm. Do not be moved! Always be outstanding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess.
But if we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous, forgiving us our sins and cleansing us from all unrighteousness.
Trust in him at all times, you people! Pour out your hearts before him! God is our shelter! (Selah)
You demonstrate your faithfulness to all generations. You established the earth and it stood firm.
Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, how much more, since we have been reconciled, will we be saved by his life?
Not only this, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received this reconciliation.
So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned –
for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law.
Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam (who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.
But the gracious gift is not like the transgression. For if the many died through the transgression of the one man, how much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man Jesus Christ multiply to the many!
And the gift is not like the one who sinned. For judgment, resulting from the one transgression, led to condemnation, but the gracious gift from the many failures led to justification.
For if, by the transgression of the one man, death reigned through the one, how much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ!
Consequently, just as condemnation for all people came through one transgression, so too through the one righteous act came righteousness leading to life for all people.
For just as through the disobedience of the one man many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of one man many will be made righteous.
through whom we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in the hope of God’s glory.
How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram! I am your shield and the one who will reward you in great abundance.”
But the path of the righteous is like the bright morning light, growing brighter and brighter until full day.
O Israel, hope in the Lord, for the Lord exhibits loyal love, and is more than willing to deliver.
Open for me the gates of the just king’s temple! I will enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
Let Israel say, “Yes, his loyal love endures!”
This is the Lord’s gate – the godly enter through it.
But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not try to stop them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
Now, this is what the Lord says, the one who created you, O Jacob, and formed you, O Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I will protect you. I call you by name, you are mine.
You are my witnesses,” says the Lord, “my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe in me, and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and none will outlive me.
I, I am the Lord, and there is no deliverer besides me.
I decreed and delivered and proclaimed, and there was no other god among you. You are my witnesses,” says the Lord, “that I am God.
From this day forward I am he; no one can deliver from my power; I will act, and who can prevent it?”
This is what the Lord says, your protector, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I send to Babylon and make them all fugitives, turning the Babylonians’ joyful shouts into mourning songs.
I am the Lord, your Holy One, the one who created Israel, your king.”
This is what the Lord says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,
the one who led chariots and horses to destruction, together with a mighty army. They fell down, never to rise again; they were extinguished, put out like a burning wick:
“Don’t remember these earlier events; don’t recall these former events.
“Look, I am about to do something new. Now it begins to happen! Do you not recognize it? Yes, I will make a road in the desert and paths in the wilderness.
When you pass through the waters, I am with you; when you pass through the streams, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not harm you.