Proverbs 8:17

New American Bible - revised edition

Those who love me I also love, and those who seek me find me.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 34:3

In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, he began to seek after the God of David his father. Then in his twelfth year he began to purify Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the asherahs, and the carved and molten images.

Psalm 91:14

Because he clings to me I will deliver him; because he knows my name I will set him on high.

Proverbs 1:28

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

Proverbs 2:4

If you seek her like silver, and like hidden treasures search her out,

Proverbs 2:5

Then will you understand the fear of the Lord; the knowledge of God you will find;

Proverbs 4:6

Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will safeguard you;

Proverbs 8:16

By me princes govern, and nobles, all the judges of the earth.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come And the years approach of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;

Song of Solomon 3:4

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

Isaiah 45:19

I have not spoken in secret from some place in the land of darkness, I have not said to the descendants of Jacob, “Look for me in an empty waste.” I, the Lord, promise justice, 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 the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.

Mark 10:14

When Jesus saw this he became indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not prevent them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

John 14:21

Whoever has my commandments and observes them is the one who loves me. And whoever loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and reveal myself to him.”

John 14:23

Jesus answered and said to him, “Whoever loves me will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.

John 16:27

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have come to believe that I came from God.

John 5:4

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John 7:37

On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and exclaimed, “Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink.

James 1:5

But if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and he will be given it.

1 John 4:19

We love because he first loved us.

1 Samuel 2:30

This, therefore, is the oracle of the Lord, the God of Israel: I said in the past that your family and your father’s house should minister in my presence forever. But now—oracle of the Lord: Far be it from me! I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me shall be cursed.