Proverbs 8:17 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ 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 a boy, he began to seek the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the Asherim, and the graven and the molten images.

Psalm 91:14

Because he cleaves to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name.

Proverbs 1:28

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

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 princes rule, and nobles govern the earth.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

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 had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

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.

Isaiah 55:6

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

Matthew 6:33

But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things shall be yours as well.

Mark 10:14

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

John 14:21

He who has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me; and he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

John 16:27

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

John 5:4

John 7:37

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink.

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will 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 declares: ‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me for ever’; 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 lightly esteemed.