Proverbs 8:17
Hebrew Text— Proverbs 8:17I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
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Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
But seek God’s Kingdom, and all these things will be added to you.
Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.
I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.
“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.
All things, whatever you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”
for God’s Kingdom is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing.
so whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.
For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
Trust in Yahweh, and do good. Dwell in the land, and enjoy safe pasture.
Whatever you will ask in my name, I will do it, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
If you remain in me, and my words remain in you, you will ask whatever you desire, and it will be done for you.
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
For him who knew no sin he made to be sin on our behalf; so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.
Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them.
If you love me, keep my commandments.
In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
For in it is revealed God’s righteousness from faith to faith. As it is written, “But the righteous shall live by faith.”
But God’s love has most certainly been perfected in whoever keeps his word. This is how we know that we are in him:
For this is loving God, that we keep his commandments. His commandments are not grievous.
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.
For Yahweh God is a sun and a shield. Yahweh will give grace and glory. He withholds no good thing from those who walk blamelessly.
For bodily exercise has some value, but godliness has value in all things, having the promise of the life which is now, and of that which is to come.
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Because of him, you are in Christ Jesus, who was made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:
If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God.
Seek Yahweh, and you will live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this,” says Yahweh of Armies, “if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there will not be room enough for.
“Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!”
One who has my commandments and keeps them, that person is one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will reveal myself to him.”
how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation—which at the first having been spoken through the Lord, was confirmed to us by those who heard,
This is love, that we should walk according to his commandments. This is the commandment, even as you heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it.
If you want to seek God diligently, make your supplication to the Almighty.
With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.
Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, to the end that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,
Beware, brothers, lest perhaps there might be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God;
Seeing therefore it remains that some should enter into it, and they to whom the good news was preached before failed to enter in because of disobedience,
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son as the atoning sacrifice for our sins.
They rose early in the morning, and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah, and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”
Those who know your name will put their trust in you, for you, Yahweh, have not forsaken those who seek you.
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will counsel you with my eye on you.
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
‘Call to me, and I will answer you, and will show you great and difficult things, which you don’t know.’
Therefore, as for you, let that remain in you which you heard from the beginning. If that which you heard from the beginning remains in you, you also will remain in the Son, and in the Father.
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
I have also given you that which you have not asked, both riches and honor, so that there will not be any among the kings like you for all your days.
One thing I have asked of Yahweh, that I will seek after: that I may dwell in Yahweh’s house all the days of my life, to see Yahweh’s beauty, and to inquire in his temple.
“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches! Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.
Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven, for she loved much. But one to whom little is forgiven, loves little.”
I in them, and you in me, that they may be perfected into one; that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you loved me.
Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, “Today if you will hear his voice,
For thus you will be richly supplied with the entrance into the eternal Kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Jesus answered him, “If a man loves me, he will keep my word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him.
But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
But seek first God’s Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
“Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
We love him, because he first loved us.
For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherah poles, the engraved images, and the molten images.
Come, you children, listen to me. I will teach you the fear of Yahweh.
God, you are my God. I will earnestly seek you. My soul thirsts for you. My flesh longs for you, in a dry and weary land, where there is no water.
I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother’s house, into the room of her who conceived me.
With my soul I have desired you in the night. Yes, with my spirit within me I will seek you earnestly; for when your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.
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.
He said to them, “Come, and see.” They came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. It was about the tenth hour.
for the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came from God.
From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.
“Count the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families. You shall count every male from a month old and upward.”
Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
It can’t be gotten for gold, neither will silver be weighed for its price.
I have relied on you from the womb. You are he who took me out of my mother’s womb. I will always praise you.
Glory in his holy name. Let the heart of those who seek Yahweh rejoice.
to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young man:
yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
Let’s go early up to the vineyards. Let’s see whether the vine has budded, its blossom is open, and the pomegranates are in flower. There I will give you my love.
I will go and return to my place, until they acknowledge their offense, and seek my face. In their affliction they will seek me earnestly.”
They, having heard the king, went their way; and behold, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, until it came and stood over where the young child was.
He said to them, “Don’t be amazed. You seek Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified. He has risen. He is not here. Behold, the place where they laid him!
and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me;
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”
But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for God’s Kingdom belongs to such as these.