Proverbs 8:17 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

I love them that love me; And those that seek me early shall find me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

I love those who love me, and those who seek me early and diligently shall find me. [I Sam. 2:30; Ps. 91:14; John 14:21; James 1:5.]

American Standard Version (1901)

I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

Common English Bible

I love those who love me; those who seek me will find me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

I love those who love me. And those who stand watch for me until morning shall discover me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

I love them that love me: and they that in the morning early watch for me, shall find me.

Proverbs 8:17 Cross References

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, and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images.

Psalm 91:14

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

Proverbs 1:28

Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; They shall seek me diligently, but they shall not find me:

Proverbs 2:4

If thou seek her as silver, And search for her as for hid treasures;

Proverbs 2:5

Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, And find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 4:6

Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee; Love her, and she shall keep thee.

Proverbs 8:16

By me princes rule, And nobles, even all the judges of the earth.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, or ever the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

Song of Solomon 3:4

It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother's house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

Isaiah 55:6

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

Matthew 6:33

But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Mark 10:14

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me; forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

John 14:21

He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.

John 14:23

Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

John 16:27

for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.

John 7:37

Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.

James 1:5

But if any of you lacketh wisdom, let him ask of God, who giveth to all liberally and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

1 John 4:19

We love, because he first loved us.

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the LORD, the God of Israel, saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.