Proverbs 8:17

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “If anyone 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 14:21

Whoever 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.”

Psalm 91:14

“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows 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 house and the house of your father 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 lightly esteemed.

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 vain.’ 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 added to you.

James 1:5

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

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 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.

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

John 7:37

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink.

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 carved and the metal 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 princes rule, and nobles, all who govern justly.

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 who conceived me.