Proverbs 8:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ I love them that love me; And those that seek me early shall find me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ 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)

¹⁷ I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ I love those who love me; those who seek me will find me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ I love those who love me. And those who stand watch for me until morning shall discover me.

Proverbs 8:17 Cross References

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “Those who love me will keep my word, and my Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

John 14:21

They who have my commandments and keep them are those who love me, and those who love me will be loved by my Father, and I will love them and reveal myself to them.”

Psalm 91:14

Those who love me, I will deliver; I will protect those who know my name.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

1 Samuel 2:30

Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.

1 John 4:19

We love because he first loved us.

Isaiah 45:19

I did not speak in secret in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, “Seek me in chaos.” I the Lord speak the truth; I declare what is right.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

James 1:5

If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you.

John 16:27

for the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

Mark 10:14

But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not stop them, for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs.

Proverbs 1:28

Then they will call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently but will not find me.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

John 7:37

On the last day of the festival, the great day, while Jesus was standing there, he cried out, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me,

2 Chronicles 34:3

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the sacred poles, and the carved and the cast images.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasures—

Proverbs 2:5

then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 4:6

Do not forsake her, and she will keep you; love her, and she will guard you.

Proverbs 8:16

by me rulers rule, and nobles, all who govern rightly.

Song of Solomon 3:4

Scarcely had I passed them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go until I brought him into my mother’s house and into the chamber of her that conceived me.