Deuteronomy 4:29
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29 (A)But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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1 Kings 3:11-14
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11 And God said to him, “Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right, 12 behold, (A)I now do according to your word. Behold, (B)I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you. 13 (C)I give you also what you have not asked, (D)both riches and honor, so that no other king shall compare with you, all your days. 14 And if you will walk in my ways, keeping my statutes and my commandments, (E)as your father David walked, then (F)I will lengthen your days.”
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1 Chronicles 22:19
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19 Now (A)set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, (B)so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built (C)for the name of the Lord.”
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Psalm 119:2
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Psalm 119:10
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Isaiah 45:19
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19 (A)I did not speak in secret,
in a land of darkness;
I did not say to the offspring of Jacob,
(B)‘Seek me in vain.’[a]
I the Lord speak (C)the truth;
I declare what is right.
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- Isaiah 45:19 Hebrew in emptiness
Isaiah 55:6
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6 (A)“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
Jeremiah 29:12-13
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12 (A)Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, (B)and I will hear you. 13 (C)You will seek me and find me, when you seek me (D)with all your heart.
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Daniel 9:3
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3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by (A)prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.
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Amos 5:4
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Matthew 7:7-8
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Ask, and It Will Be Given
7 (A)“Ask, (B)and it will be given to you; (C)seek, and you will find; (D)knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
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Luke 11:9
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9 And I tell you, (A)ask, and (B)it will be given to you; (C)seek, and you will find; (D)knock, and it will be opened to you.
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Romans 2:29
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29 But a Jew is one (A)inwardly, and (B)circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. (C)His praise is not from man but from God.
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Romans 12:2
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2 (A)Do not be conformed to this world,[a] but be transformed by (B)the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may (C)discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.[b]
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- Romans 12:2 Greek age
- Romans 12:2 Or what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God
2 Corinthians 10:18
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18 For it is (A)not the one who commends himself who is approved, but the one (B)whom the Lord commends.
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Galatians 1:10
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10 For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying (A)to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a (B)servant[a] of Christ.
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- Galatians 1:10 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
Ephesians 6:6
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6 not by the way of eye-service, as (A)people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
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Colossians 3:22
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22 Bondservants, obey (A)in everything those who are your earthly masters,[a] not by way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.
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- Colossians 3:22 Or your masters according to the flesh
1 Thessalonians 2:4
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4 but just as we have been approved by God (A)to be entrusted with the gospel, so we speak, not (B)to please man, but to please God (C)who tests our hearts.
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