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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Genesis 49:18

I await Your salvation, O LORD.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Deuteronomy 4:29

But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Chronicles 16:11

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Chronicles 22:19

Now set your heart and soul to seek the LORD your God. Get started building the sanctuary of the LORD God, so that you may bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD and the holy articles of God into the temple that will be built for the Name of the LORD.”

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning 1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Chronicles 11:16

Those from every tribe of Israel who had set their hearts to seek the LORD their God followed the Levites to Jerusalem to sacrifice to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Chronicles 15:2, 12, 13

So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you. / Then they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD, the God of their fathers, with all their heart and soul. / And whoever would not seek the LORD, the God of Israel, would be put to death, whether young or old, man or woman.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Chronicles 26:5

He sought God throughout the days of Zechariah, who instructed him in the fear of God. And as long as he sought the LORD, God gave him success.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Chronicles 30:18, 19

A large number of the people—many from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun—had not purified themselves, yet they ate the Passover, contrary to what was written. But Hezekiah interceded for them, saying, “May the LORD, who is good, provide atonement for everyone / who sets his heart on seeking God—the LORD, the God of his fathers—even if he is not cleansed according to the purification rules of the sanctuary.”

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning 2 Chronicles 31:21

He was diligent in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Ezra 8:22

For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, since we had told him, “The hand of our God is gracious to all who seek Him, but His great anger is against all who forsake Him.”

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Job 5:8

However, if I were you, I would appeal to God and lay my cause before Him—

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Job 8:5, 6

But if you would earnestly seek God and ask the Almighty for mercy, / if you are pure and upright, even now He will rouse Himself on your behalf and restore your righteous estate.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 9:10

Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 14:2

The LORD looks down from heaven upon the sons of men to see if any understand, if any seek God.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 17:1, 2

A prayer of David. Hear, O LORD, my righteous plea; listen to my cry. Give ear to my prayer—it comes from lips free of deceit. / May my vindication come from Your presence; may Your eyes see what is right.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 22:26

The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 24:3–6

Who may ascend the hill of the LORD? Who may stand in His holy place? / He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to an idol or swear deceitfully. / He will receive blessing from the LORD and vindication from the God of his salvation.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 25:5, 15

Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You. / My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 27:4, 8, 14

One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and seek Him in His temple. / My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek. / Wait patiently for the LORD; be strong and courageous. Wait patiently for the LORD!

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 33:20

Our soul waits for the LORD; He is our help and our shield.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 34:4, 10

I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears. / Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 40:1–4

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; He inclined to me and heard my cry. / He lifted me up from the pit of despair, out of the miry clay; He set my feet upon a rock, and made my footsteps firm. / He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 42:1–4

For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God. / My soul thirsts for God, the living God. When shall I come and appear in God’s presence? / My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 63:1–8

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 body yearns for You in a dry and weary land without water. / So I have seen You in the sanctuary and beheld Your power and glory. / Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 69:32

The humble will see and rejoice. You who seek God, let your hearts be revived!

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 70:4, 5

May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!” / But I am poor and needy; hurry to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer; O LORD, do not delay.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 77:1–9

For the choirmaster. According to Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph. I cried out to God; I cried aloud to God to hear me. / In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted. / I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 78:34

When He slew them, they would seek Him; they repented and searched for God.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 81:10

I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of Egypt. Open wide your mouth, and I will fill it.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 83:16

Cover their faces with shame, that they may seek Your name, O LORD.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 84:2

My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 105:4

Seek out the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 119:2, 10

Blessed are those who keep His testimonies and seek Him with all their heart. / With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me stray from Your commandments.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 130:5, 6

I wait for the LORD; my soul does wait, and in His word I put my hope. / My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning—more than watchmen wait for the morning.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 143:6

I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Psalm 145:18, 19

The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth. / He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 2:3–5

if you truly call out to insight and lift your voice to understanding, / if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure, / then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 8:17, 34

I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me. / Blessed is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my doors, waiting at the posts of my doorway.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Proverbs 28:5

Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD comprehend fully.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 8:19

When men tell you to consult the spirits of the dead and the spiritists who whisper and mutter, shouldn’t a people consult their God instead? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 26:8, 9

Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls. / My soul longs for You in the night; indeed, my spirit seeks You at dawn. For when Your judgments come upon the earth, the people of the world learn righteousness.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 44:3, 4

For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring. / They will sprout among the grass like willows by flowing streams.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 45:19, 22

I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right. / Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 49:9–12, 23

to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill. / They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water. / I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 51:1

“Listen to Me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the LORD: Look to the rock from which you were cut, and to the quarry from which you were hewn.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 55:6, 7

Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. / Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 59:20

“The Redeemer will come to Zion, to those in Jacob who turn from transgression,” declares the LORD.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Isaiah 61:1–3

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners, / to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn, / to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 29:13

You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 42:3

Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Jeremiah 50:4

“In those days and at that time, declares the LORD, the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together, weeping as they come, and will seek the LORD their God.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Lamentations 3:25, 26, 41

The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him. / It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD. / Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Ezekiel 18:21–23

But if the wicked man turns from all the sins he has committed, keeps all My statutes, and does what is just and right, he will surely live; he will not die. / None of the transgressions he has committed will be held against him. Because of the righteousness he has practiced, he will live. / Do I take any pleasure in the death of the wicked? declares the Lord GOD. Wouldn’t I prefer that he turn from his ways and live?

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Daniel 9:3

So I turned my attention to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and petition, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 3:5

Afterward, the people of Israel will return and seek the LORD their God and David their king. They will come trembling to the LORD and to His goodness in the last days.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 5:15

Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Hosea 10:12

Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Joel 2:12, 13

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” / So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 5:4–6, 8, 14

For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live! / Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing. / Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Amos 8:12

People will stagger from sea to sea and roam from north to east, seeking the word of the LORD, but they will not find it.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Zephaniah 2:3

Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Zechariah 8:20–23

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Peoples will yet come—the residents of many cities— / and the residents of one city will go to another, saying: ‘Let us go at once to plead before the LORD and to seek the LORD of Hosts. I myself am going.’ / And many peoples and strong nations will come to seek the LORD of Hosts in Jerusalem and to plead before the LORD.”

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 6:33

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

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Matthew 7:7–12

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. / For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. / Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 6:21

Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 11:9–13

So I tell you: Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you. / For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened. / What father among you, if his son asks for a fish, will give him a snake instead?

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 13:24

“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 14:26–33

“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple. / And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple. / Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Luke 16:16

The Law and the Prophets were proclaimed until John. Since that time, the gospel of the kingdom of God is being preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning John 6:37

Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 2:21

And everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.’

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Acts 17:27

God intended that they would seek Him and perhaps reach out for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 3:11

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

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Romans 10:13

for, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 7:25

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 9:28

so also Christ was offered once to bear the sins of many; and He will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who eagerly await Him.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Hebrews 11:6

And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who approaches Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning James 4:8

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

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Revelation 3:20

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in and dine with him, and he with Me.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Revelation 21:6

And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.

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Seekers: General Scriptures Concerning Revelation 22:17

The Spirit and the bride say, “Come!” Let the one who hears say, “Come!” And let the one who is thirsty come, and the one who desires the water of life drink freely.

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