Seek First

but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

and apart from faith it is impossible to please well, for it behoveth him who is coming to God to believe that He is, and to those seeking Him He becometh a rewarder.

And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;

but, seek ye the reign of God, and all these things shall be added to you.

`And--ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

If, then, ye were raised with the Christ, the things above seek ye, where the Christ is, on the right hand of God seated,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you--of God the gift,

and be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, for your proving what <FI>is<Fi> the will of God--the good, and acceptable, and perfect.

for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing? — read the full passage →

They trust in Thee who do know Thy name, For Thou hast not forsaken Those seeking Thee, O Jehovah.

be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

not having my righteousness, which <FI>is<Fi> of law, but that which <FI>is<Fi> through faith of Christ--the righteousness that is of God by the faith,

and there is not salvation in any other, for there is no other name under the heaven that hath been given among men, in which it behoveth us to be saved.'

and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

For the righteousness of God in it is revealed from faith to faith, according as it hath been written, `And the righteous one by faith shall live,'

`Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens; — read the full passage →

for nothing be anxious, but in everything by prayer, and by supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known unto God;

`Let not your heart be troubled, believe in God, also in me believe;

for God did so love the world, that His Son--the only begotten--He gave, that every one who is believing in him may not perish, but may have life age-during.

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, `Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come--a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.

Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow shall be anxious for its own things; sufficient for the day <FI>is<Fi> the evil of it.

`Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal, — read the full passage →

One <FI>thing<Fi> I asked of Jehovah--it I seek. My dwelling in the house of Jehovah, All the days of my life, To look on the pleasantness of Jehovah, And to inquire in His temple. — read the full passage →

and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

In that night hath God appeared to Solomon, and saith to him, `Ask--what do I give to thee?' — read the full passage →

through which to us the most great and precious promises have been given, that through these ye may become partakers of a divine nature, having escaped from the corruption in the world in desires.

upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

every Writing <FI>is<Fi> God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that <FI>is<Fi> in righteousness,

and all, whatever ye may do--out of soul work--as to the Lord, and not to men,

providing right things, not only before the Lord, but also before men;

And being let go, they went unto their own friends, and declared whatever the chief priests and the elders said unto them,

if ye may remain in me, and my sayings in you may remain, whatever ye may wish ye shall ask, and it shall be done to you.

and whatever ye may ask in my name, I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son; — read the full passage →

Jesus saith to him, `I am the way, and the truth, and the life, no one doth come unto the Father, if not through me;

Jesus answered them and said, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were satisfied;

and I say to you, Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you;

he who hath believed, and hath been baptized, shall be saved; and he who hath not believed, shall be condemned.

And he said to them, `Verily I say to you, That there are certain of those standing here, who may not taste of death till they see the reign of God having come in power.'

And after the delivering up of John, Jesus came to Galilee, proclaiming the good news of the reign of God,

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

therefore ye may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? or, What may we drink? or, What may we put round? — read the full passage →

`Because of this I say to you, be not anxious for your life, what ye may eat, and what ye may drink, nor for your body, what ye may put on. Is not the life more than the nourishment, and the body than the clothing?

`Happy the poor in spirit--because theirs is the reign of the heavens.

With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek ye His face continually.

To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

`And thou, Solomon, my son, know the God of thy father, and serve Him with a perfect heart, and with a willing mind, for all hearts is Jehovah seeking, and every imagination of the thoughts He is understanding; if thou dost seek Him, He is found of thee, and if thou dost forsake Him, He casteth thee off for ever.

Seek ye Jehovah and His strength, Seek His face continually.

and I heard a great voice out of the heaven, saying, `Lo, the tabernacle of God <FI>is<Fi> with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they shall be His peoples, and God Himself shall be with them--their God,

in this we know that we love the children of God, when we may love God, and His commands may keep;

Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

all your care having cast upon Him, because He careth for you.

who our sins himself did bear in his body, upon the tree, that to the sins having died, to the righteousness we may live; by whose stripes ye were healed,

is any infirm among you? let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the name of the Lord,

Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;

lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.

Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

and when the kindness and the love to men of God our Saviour did appear

be diligent to present thyself approved to God--a workman irreproachable, rightly dividing the word of the truth;

for the Writing saith, `An ox treading out thou shalt not muzzle,' and `Worthy <FI>is<Fi> the workman of his reward.'

aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

who did rescue us out of the authority of the darkness, and did translate <FI>us<Fi> into the reign of the Son of His love,

for the whole seek their own things, not the things of the Christ Jesus,

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

on every first <FI>day<Fi> of the week, let each one of you lay by him, treasuring up whatever he may have prospered, that when I may come then collections may not be made;

And concerning the collection that <FI>is<Fi> for the saints, as I directed to the assemblies of Galatia, so also ye--do ye;

Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

and because of the whoredom let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her proper husband;

Have ye not known that your body is a sanctuary of the Holy Spirit in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own, — read the full passage →

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

have ye not known that the unrighteous the reign of God shall not inherit? be not led astray; neither whoremongers, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,

for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;

To no one owe anything, except to love one another; for he who is loving the other--law he hath fulfilled,

so that he who is setting himself against the authority, against God's ordinance hath resisted; and those resisting, to themselves shall receive judgment.

For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,

and Isaiah is very bold, and saith, `I was found by those not seeking Me; I became manifest to those not inquiring after Me;'

so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

all things I did shew you, that, thus labouring, it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to partake with the ailing, to be mindful also of the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.'

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

He made also of one blood every nation of men, to dwell upon all the face of the earth--having ordained times before appointed, and the bounds of their dwellings-- — read the full passage →

and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

that the residue of men may seek after the Lord, and all the nations, upon whom My name hath been called, saith the Lord, who is doing all these things.

And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,

And Peter and the apostles answering, said, `To obey God it behoveth, rather than men;

being grieved because of their teaching the people, and preaching in Jesus the rising again out of the dead--

and this is the life age-during, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and him whom Thou didst send--Jesus Christ;

and if I go on and prepare for you a place, again do I come, and will receive you unto myself, that where I am ye also may be;

and the truth shall make you free.'

and there was following him a great multitude, because they were seeing his signs that he was doing on the ailing;