25 Bible Verses about Searching (KJV)

Here are 25 Bible verses about searching, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Proverbs 8:17 KJV

¹⁷I love them that love me; and those that seek me early shall find me.

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Matthew 7:8 KJV

⁸For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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Matthew 6:33 KJV

³³But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

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1 John 2:15-17 KJV

¹⁵Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. ¹⁷And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

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John 11:25-26 KJV

²⁵Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: ²⁶And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

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John 5:39 KJV

³⁹Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

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Matthew 7:7-8 KJV

⁷Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: ⁸For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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Job 38:12 KJV

¹²Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;

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Genesis 2:7 KJV

⁷And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

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Hebrews 11:1-40 KJV

¹Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. ²For by it the elders obtained a good report. ³Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. ⁴By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he …

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Acts 2:25-26 KJV

²⁵For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved: ²⁶Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

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Isaiah 48:17 KJV

¹⁷Thus saith the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I am the Lord thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way that thou shouldest go.

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Matthew 18:12-13 KJV

¹²How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray? ¹³And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoiceth more of that sheep, than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.

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Hebrews 4:12 KJV

¹²For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

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Psalm 139:23-24 KJV

²³Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: ²⁴And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

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John 18:1-11 KJV

¹When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron, where was a garden, into the which he entered, and his disciples. ²And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. ³Judas then, having received a band of men and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, cometh thither with lanterns and …

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Mark 16:16 KJV

¹⁶He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

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Proverbs 22:6 KJV

⁶Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Proverbs 16:4 KJV

⁴The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

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Luke 18:9-14 KJV

⁹And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: ¹⁰Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican. ¹¹The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. …

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Job 33:4 KJV

⁴The spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

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Job 4:17 KJV

¹⁷Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker?

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Acts 17:26 KJV

²⁶And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;

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John 1:10 KJV

¹⁰He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not.

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Genesis 1:27 KJV

²⁷So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

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