Proverbs 8:17

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:3

And in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a young boy, he began to seek out the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from high places, Asherah poles, idols, and carved and cast images.

Psalm 91:14

“Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name.

Proverbs 1:28

“Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will seek me diligently, but they will not find me,

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek her as silver and search for her 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 preserve you; love her, and she will guard you.

Proverbs 8:16

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

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the difficult days come and the years draw near when you say, “I have no pleasure in these days and years”;

Song of Solomon 3:4

I had just left them when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him and would not let him go until I brought him to my mother’s house, and into the room of her who conceived me.

Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret in a dark place of the earth; I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, “Seek Me in a waste place”; I, the Lord, speak righteousness; I declare things that are right.

Isaiah 55:6

Seek the Lord while He may be found, call you upon Him while He is near.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you.

Mark 10:14

But when Jesus saw it, He was very displeased and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to Me, and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God.

John 14:21

He who has My commandments and keeps them is the one who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father. And I will love him and will reveal Myself to him.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered him, “If a man loves Me, he will keep My word. 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 God.

John 5:4

For an angel went down at a certain time into the pool and stirred up the water. After the stirring of the water, whoever stepped in first was healed of whatever disease he had.

John 7:37

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.

James 1:5

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

1 John 4:19

We love Him because He first loved us.

1 Samuel 2:30

“Therefore the Lord God of Israel says, ‘I surely said that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before Me forever,’ but now the Lord says, ‘Far be it from Me to do so, for those who honor Me, I will honor, and those that despise Me will be humbled.