Psalm 27:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

One thing I asked of the Lord; this I seek: to live in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple.

Cross References

Psalm 26:8

O Lord, I love the house in which you dwell and the place where your glory abides.

Psalm 23:6

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord my whole life long.

Psalm 65:4

Happy are those whom you choose and bring near to live in your courts. We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house, your holy temple.

Psalm 84:4

Happy are those who live in your house, ever singing your praise. Selah

Psalm 84:10

For a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than live in the tents of wickedness.

Luke 10:42

but few things are needed—indeed only one. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”

Psalm 27:8

“Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!” Your face, Lord, do I seek.

Matthew 6:33

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

Jeremiah 29:13

When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart,

Philippians 3:13

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have laid hold of it, but one thing I have laid hold of: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would approach God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Psalm 90:17

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us and prosper for us the work of our hands— O prosper the work of our hands!

2 Corinthians 3:18

And all of us, with unveiled faces, seeing the glory of the Lord as though reflected in a mirror, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another, for this comes from the Lord, the Spirit.

Luke 2:37

then as a widow to the age of eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped there with fasting and prayer night and day.

Daniel 9:3

Then I turned to the Lord God to seek an answer by prayer and supplication with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.

Psalm 50:2

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.

Luke 18:1

Then Jesus told them a parable about their need to pray always and not to lose heart.

2 Corinthians 4:6

For it is the God who said, “Light will shine out of darkness,” who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.

Luke 13:24

“Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

1 Timothy 5:5

The real widow, left alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day,

Zechariah 9:9

Rejoice greatly, O daughter Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands in innocence and go around your altar, O Lord,

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year, and David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Samuel 1:11

She made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head.”

1 Samuel 30:8

David inquired of the Lord, “Shall I pursue this band? Shall I overtake them?” He answered him, “Pursue, for you shall surely overtake and shall surely rescue.”

1 Samuel 22:10

he inquired of the Lord for him, gave him provisions, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.”