Proverbs 1:21

Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

“I tell you, keep asking, and it will be given you. Keep seeking, and you will find. Keep knocking, and it will be opened to you.

But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a bronze vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.

Anything they fall on when they are dead shall be unclean; whether it is any vessel of wood, or clothing, or skin, or sack, whatever vessel it is, with which any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the evening. Then it will be clean.

For this commandment which I command you today is not too hard for you or too distant.

Happy are your men, happy are these your servants, who stand continually before you, who hear your wisdom.

if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.

Happy is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gets understanding.

Listen, sons, to a father’s instruction. Pay attention and know understanding;

She sits at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,

“Come near to me and hear this: “From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it happened, I was there.” Now the Lord Yahweh has sent me with his Spirit.

He entered into one of the boats, which was Simon’s, and asked him to put out a little from the land. He sat down and taught the multitudes from the boat.

Therefore whatever you have said in the darkness will be heard in the light. What you have spoken in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?

“So you, son of man: I have set you a watchman to the house of Israel. Therefore hear the word from my mouth, and give them warnings from me.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him.

Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out the things that are in his house.

She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.

Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written in it, for the time is at hand.

Every earthen vessel into which any of them falls and all that is in it shall be unclean. You shall break it.

When you build a new house, then you shall make a railing around your roof, so that you don’t bring blood on your house if anyone falls from there.

and he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin! Yahweh is with you, while you are with him; and if you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.

When you said, “Seek my face,” my heart said to you, “I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

My son, listen to your father’s instruction, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching:

My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding,

I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.

Who is this who comes from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? Who is this who is glorious in his clothing, marching in the greatness of his strength? “It is I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”

For Yahweh says to the house of Israel: “Seek me, and you will live;

In that hour Jesus said to the multitudes, “Have you come out as against a robber with swords and clubs to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me.

I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and you didn’t arrest me. But this is so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled.”

Not finding a way to bring him in because of the multitude, they went up to the housetop, and let him down through the tiles with his cot into the middle before Jesus.

For no one does anything in secret while he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, reveal yourself to the world.”

“I have said these things to you so that you wouldn’t be caused to stumble.

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

His disciples said to him, “Behold, now you are speaking plainly, and using no figures of speech.

saying, “Didn’t we strictly command you not to teach in this name? Behold, you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and intend to bring this man’s blood on us.”

Brothers, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you who fear God, the word of this salvation is sent out to you.

and to make all men see what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God, who created all things through Jesus Christ,

I saw an angel flying in mid heaven, having an eternal Good News to proclaim to those who dwell on the earth, and to every nation, tribe, language, and people.

He said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is at hand.

He made the basin of bronze, and its base of bronze, out of the mirrors of the ministering women who ministered at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

“ ‘The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

The secret things belong to Yahweh our God; but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he.

For it is no vain thing for you, because it is your life, and through this thing you shall prolong your days in the land, where you go over the Jordan to possess it.”

Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.

Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, Yahweh’s assembly, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Yahweh your God; that you may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you forever.

For I was ashamed to ask of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, “The hand of our God is on all those who seek him, for good; but his power and his wrath is against all those who forsake him.”

Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Yahweh’s words are flawless words, as silver refined in a clay furnace, purified seven times.

This is the generation of those who seek Him, who seek your face—even Jacob.

But as for me, my prayer is to you, Yahweh, in an acceptable time. God, in the abundance of your loving kindness, answer me in the truth of your salvation.

The humble have seen it, and are glad. You who seek after God, let your heart live.

On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.

Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.

Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.

Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.

She has sent out her maidens. She cries from the highest places of the city:

The soul of the sluggard desires, and has nothing, but the desire of the diligent shall be fully satisfied.

The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

“Every word of God is flawless. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

If you don’t know, most beautiful among women, follow the tracks of the sheep. Graze your young goats beside the shepherds’ tents.

I will get up now, and go about the city; in the streets and in the squares I will seek him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I didn’t find him.

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.

When they tell you, “Consult with those who have familiar spirits and with the wizards, who chirp and who mutter,” shouldn’t a people consult with their God? Should they consult the dead on behalf of the living?

I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness. I didn’t say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I, Yahweh, speak righteousness. I declare things that are right.

I have sworn by myself. The word has gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and will not be revoked, that to me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall take an oath.

I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.

Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

Yahweh said this to me: “Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, through which the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.

I will be found by you,” says Yahweh, “and I will turn again your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places where I have driven you, says Yahweh. I will bring you again to the place from where I caused you to be carried away captive.”

“In those days, and in that time,” says Yahweh, “the children of Israel will come, they and the children of Judah together; they will go on their way weeping, and will seek Yahweh their God.

Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.

What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.

Great multitudes gathered to him, so that he entered into a boat, and sat, and all the multitude stood on the beach.

He said, “To you it is given to know the mysteries of God’s Kingdom, but to the rest in parables; that ‘seeing they may not see, and hearing they may not understand.’

When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.

Jesus answered him, “I spoke openly to the world. I always taught in synagogues, and in the temple, where the Jews always meet. I said nothing in secret.

“Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life.”

So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who met him.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.