Amos 5:4
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4 For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel:
Seek me and live,(A)
2 Chronicles 15:2
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2 He went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: The Lord is with you while you are with him. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you abandon him, he will abandon you.(A)
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Zephaniah 2:3
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3 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land
who do his commands;
seek righteousness, seek humility;
perhaps you may be hidden
on the day of the Lord’s wrath.(A)
Jeremiah 29:12-13
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12 Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.(A) 13 When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart,(B)
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Isaiah 55:3
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3 Incline your ear, and come to me;
listen, so that you may live.
I will make with you an everlasting covenant,
my steadfast, sure love for David.(A)
Psalm 14:2
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2 The Lord looks down from heaven on humankind
to see if there are any who are wise,
who seek after God.(A)
Isaiah 55:6-7
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6 Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;(A)
7 let the wicked forsake their way
and the unrighteous their thoughts;
let them return to the Lord, that he may have mercy on them,
and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.(B)
Psalm 105:3-4
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3 Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.(A)
4 Seek the Lord and his strength;
seek his presence continually.(B)
Matthew 7:8
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8 For everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds, and for everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.(A)
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Lamentations 3:25-26
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25 The Lord is good to those who wait for him,
to the soul that seeks him.(A)
26 It is good that one should wait quietly
for the salvation of the Lord.(B)
2 Chronicles 34:3
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3 For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a boy, he began to seek the God of his ancestor David, and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem of the high places, the sacred poles,[a] and the carved and the cast images.(A)
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- 34.3 Or Asherahs
1 Chronicles 28:9
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9 “And you, my son Solomon, know the God of your father, and serve him with single mind and willing heart, for the Lord searches every mind and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will abandon you forever.(A)
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Deuteronomy 30:1-8
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God’s Fidelity Assured
30 “When all these things have happened to you, the blessings and the curses that I have set before you, if you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you(A) 2 and return to the Lord your God, and you and your children obey him with all your heart and with all your soul, just as I am commanding you today,(B) 3 then the Lord your God will return you from your captivity and have compassion on you, gathering you again from all the peoples among whom the Lord your God has scattered you.(C) 4 Even if you are exiled to the ends of the world,[a] from there the Lord your God will gather you, and from there he will take you back.(D) 5 The Lord your God will bring you into the land that your ancestors possessed, and you will possess it; he will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors.
6 “Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, in order that you may live.(E) 7 The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies and on the adversaries who took advantage of you. 8 Then you shall again obey the Lord, observing all his commandments that I am commanding you today,
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- 30.4 Heb of heaven
Amos 5:6
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6 Seek the Lord and live,
or he will break out against the house of Joseph like fire,
and it will devour Bethel, with no one to quench it.(A)
Psalm 69:32
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32 Let the oppressed see it and be glad;
you who seek God, let your hearts revive.(A)
Psalm 27:8
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8 “Come,” my heart says, “seek his face!”
Your face, Lord, do I seek.(A)
Psalm 22:26
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26 The poor[a] shall eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord.
May your hearts live forever!(A)
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2 Chronicles 20:3
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3 Jehoshaphat was afraid; he set himself to seek the Lord and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.(A)
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