Seeking God

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Psalms 14:2 OT

  Yahweh looked down from heaven on the children of men, to see if there were any who understood, who sought after God.

• Romans 3:11 NT

  There is no one who understands. There is no one who seeks after God.

• Luke 12:23 NT

  Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing.

• Luke 12:30 NT

  For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

• Zephaniah 2:3 OT

  Seek Yahweh, all you humble of the land, who have kept his ordinances. Seek righteousness. Seek humility. It may be that you will be hidden in the day of Yahweh’s anger.

• Job 5:8 OT

  “But as for me, I would seek God. I would commit my cause to God,

• 2 Chronicles 30:19 OT

  who sets his heart to seek God, Yahweh, the God of his fathers, even if they aren’t clean according to the purification of the sanctuary.”

• 2 Chronicles 11:16 OT

  After them, out of all the tribes of Israel, those who set their hearts to seek Yahweh, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to sacrifice to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.

• 2 Chronicles 15:12 OT

  They entered into the covenant to seek Yahweh, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their soul;

• Psalms 119:10 OT

  With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don’t let me wander from your commandments.

• Psalms 63:1 OT

  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.

• Isaiah 26:9 OT

  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.

• Song of Solomon 3:2 OT

  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.

• Song of Solomon 3:4 OT

  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.

• Psalms 24:6 OT

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

• Isaiah 45:19 OT

  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.

• Psalms 119:2 OT

  Blessed are those who keep his statutes, who seek him with their whole heart.

• Psalms 70:4 OT

  Let all those who seek you rejoice and be glad in you. Let those who love your salvation continually say, “Let God be exalted!”

• Psalms 105:3 OT

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

• Psalms 22:26 OT

  The humble shall eat and be satisfied. They shall praise Yahweh who seek after him. Let your hearts live forever.

• Psalms 14:3 OT

  They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.

• Romans 3:12 NT

  They have all turned away. They have together become unprofitable. There is no one who does good, no, not so much as one.”

• 2 Chronicles 12:14 OT

  He did that which was evil, because he didn’t set his heart to seek Yahweh.

• Psalms 10:4 OT

  The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.