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100 Bible Verses about Seeking Gods Face

1 Chronicles 16:11 ESV / 49 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 43 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Psalm 105:4 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 40 helpful votes

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

Matthew 6:33 ESV / 37 helpful votes

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Psalm 27:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes

You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, Lord, do I seek.”

Jeremiah 29:13 ESV / 33 helpful votes

You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.

Psalm 63:1 ESV / 33 helpful votes

A Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah. O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.

Proverbs 8:17 ESV / 29 helpful votes

I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Psalm 9:10 ESV / 28 helpful votes

And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you.

Psalm 119:2 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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

James 4:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Psalm 34:10 ESV / 24 helpful votes

The young lions suffer want and hunger; but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.

Psalm 14:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes

The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

Matthew 7:7-8 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Isaiah 55:6 ESV / 22 helpful votes

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near;

Deuteronomy 4:29 ESV / 22 helpful votes

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Lamentations 3:25 ESV / 21 helpful votes

The Lord is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

1 Chronicles 28:9 ESV / 21 helpful votes

“And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

Isaiah 55:6-7 ESV / 19 helpful votes

“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Psalm 119:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes

With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!

Psalm 40:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But may all who seek you rejoice and be glad in you; may those who love your salvation say continually, “Great is the Lord!”

Psalm 34:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears.

Acts 17:27 ESV / 17 helpful votes

That they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

Amos 5:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: “Seek me and live;

Psalm 10:4 ESV / 17 helpful votes

In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

Revelation 22:4 ESV / 15 helpful votes

They will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.

Zephaniah 2:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands; seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.

Job 5:8-9 ESV / 15 helpful votes

“As for me, I would seek God, and to God would I commit my cause, who does great things and unsearchable, marvelous things without number:

1 Chronicles 22:19 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Now set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God. Arise and build the sanctuary of the Lord God, so that the ark of the covenant of the Lord and the holy vessels of God may be brought into a house built for the name of the Lord.”

Deuteronomy 34:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And there has not arisen a prophet since in Israel like Moses, whom the Lord knew face to face,

Exodus 33:11 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend. When Moses turned again into the camp, his assistant Joshua the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent.

Luke 11:9-10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And I tell you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.

Hosea 5:15 ESV / 14 helpful votes

I will return again to my place, until they acknowledge their guilt and seek my face, and in their distress earnestly seek me.

Jeremiah 29:12-14 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Hosea 10:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Sow for yourselves righteousness; reap steadfast love; break up your fallow ground, for it is the time to seek the Lord, that he may come and rain righteousness upon you.

Isaiah 45:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes

I did not speak in secret, in a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in vain.’ I the Lord speak the truth; I declare what is right.

Psalm 17:15 ESV / 13 helpful votes

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

Psalm 143:7 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Answer me quickly, O Lord! My spirit fails! Hide not your face from me, lest I be like those who go down to the pit.

Psalm 80:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Restore us, O God; let your face shine, that we may be saved!

Psalm 67:1 ESV / 12 helpful votes

To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Psalm. A Song. May God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us, Selah

Psalm 24:6 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah

James 1:5 ESV / 11 helpful votes

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.

2 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

John 1:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father's side, he has made him known.

Malachi 3:1 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

Psalm 27:4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

2 Chronicles 15:2 ESV / 11 helpful votes

And 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 forsake him, he will forsake you.

Acts 17:26-27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,

Jeremiah 29:11-14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, declares the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.

Proverbs 28:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely.

Psalm 119:58 ESV / 10 helpful votes

I entreat your favor with all my heart; be gracious to me according to your promise.

Psalm 37:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Psalm 4:6 ESV / 10 helpful votes

There are many who say, “Who will show us some good? Lift up the light of your face upon us, O Lord!”

Deuteronomy 4:29-31 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul. When you are in tribulation, and all these things come upon you in the latter days, you will return to the Lord your God and obey his voice. For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

Exodus 33:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes

But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for man shall not see me and live.”

Exodus 33:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And he said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”

Genesis 32:30 ESV / 10 helpful votes

So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

Romans 3:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

No one understands; no one seeks for God.

John 3:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Psalm 119:45 ESV / 9 helpful votes

And I shall walk in a wide place, for I have sought your precepts.

Psalm 80:19 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Restore us, O Lord God of hosts! Let your face shine, that we may be saved!

Psalm 24:5-6 ESV / 9 helpful votes

He will receive blessing from the Lord and righteousness from the God of his salvation. Such is the generation of those who seek him, who seek the face of the God of Jacob. Selah

Colossians 3:1-2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.

Ephesians 6:10 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Amos 5:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Seek the Lord and live, lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, with none to quench it for Bethel,

Proverbs 18:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.

Psalm 30:7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

By your favor, O Lord, you made my mountain stand strong; you hid your face; I was dismayed.

Psalm 13:1 ESV / 8 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

2 Chronicles 30:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For if you return to the Lord, your brothers and your children will find compassion with their captors and return to this land. For the Lord your God is gracious and merciful and will not turn away his face from you, if you return to him.”

Numbers 6:24-26 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.

Luke 19:10 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”

Amos 5:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the Lord, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

Jeremiah 33:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Isaiah 65:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes

I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that was not called by my name.

Proverbs 24:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

Proverbs 16:15 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In the light of a king's face there is life, and his favor is like the clouds that bring the spring rain.

Psalm 139:1-2 ESV / 7 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O Lord, you have searched me and known me! You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.

Psalm 69:32 ESV / 7 helpful votes

When the humble see it they will be glad; you who seek God, let your hearts revive.

Job 8:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

If you will seek God and plead with the Almighty for mercy,

2 Chronicles 26:5 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God, and as long as he sought the Lord, God made him prosper.

2 Chronicles 16:9 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to give strong support to those whose heart is blameless toward him. You have done foolishly in this, for from now on you will have wars.”

Revelation 6:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Calling to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of him who is seated on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 John 1:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

John 1:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.

Luke 12:31 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Instead, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added to you.

Matthew 13:44-46 ESV / 6 helpful votes

“The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field. “Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant in search of fine pearls, who, on finding one pearl of great value, went and sold all that he had and bought it.

Ezekiel 20:35 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there I will enter into judgment with you face to face.

Jeremiah 18:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Like the east wind I will scatter them before the enemy. I will show them my back, not my face, in the day of their calamity.”

Psalm 105:3 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice!

Psalm 104:29 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 69:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hide not your face from your servant, for I am in distress; make haste to answer me.

Psalm 51:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

Psalm 31:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Make your face shine on your servant; save me in your steadfast love!

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