Asking, seeking, knocking

“Ask, and you will receive. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks, receives. Whoever seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door is opened.

Unclean spirit seeking a home

“When an unclean spirit leaves a person, it wanders through dry places looking for a place to rest. But it doesn’t find any.

“How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and plate, but inside they are full of violence and pleasure seeking.

And I tell you: Ask and you will receive. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened to you.

Everyone who asks, receives. Whoever seeks, finds. To everyone who knocks, the door is opened.

Others were testing him, seeking a sign from heaven.

On seeking signs

While Jesus was saying these things, a certain woman in the crowd spoke up: “Happy is the mother who gave birth to you and who nursed you.”

The Human One came to seek and save the lost.”

Jesus was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests, the legal experts, and the foremost leaders among the people were seeking to kill him.

I can’t do anything by myself. Whatever I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just. I don’t seek my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

How can you believe when you receive praise from each other but don’t seek the praise that comes from the only God?

Those who speak on their own seek glory for themselves. Those who seek the glory of him who sent me are people of truth; there’s no falsehood in them.

I’m not trying to bring glory to myself. There’s one who is seeking to glorify me, and he’s the judge.

seeking letters to the synagogues in Damascus. If he found persons who belonged to the Way, whether men or women, these letters would authorize him to take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.

so that the rest of humanity will seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who belong to me. The Lord says this, the one who does these things

God made the nations so they would seek him, perhaps even reach out to him and find him. In fact, God isn’t far away from any of us.

it isn’t rude, it doesn’t seek its own advantage, it isn’t irritable, it doesn’t keep a record of complaints,

They should shun evil and do good; seek peace and chase after it.

Be clearheaded. Keep alert. Your accuser, the devil, is on the prowl like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

In those days people will seek death, but they won’t find it. They will want to die, but death will run away from them.