100 Bible Verses About Seeking God's Will

And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.

And he shall sprinkle of the blood upon it with his finger seven times, and cleanse it, and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel.

So Ahab sent unto all the children of Israel, and gathered the prophets together unto mount Carmel.

Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.

That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments:

Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.

And there came an angel of the Lord, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abi–ezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.

And Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he answered him not that day.

Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:

Wherefore Saul sent messengers unto Jesse, and said, Send me David thy son, which is with the sheep.

The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises of the Lord.

Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.

That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more. Bless thou the Lord, O my soul. Praise ye the Lord.

And all the people saw the cloudy pillar stand at the tabernacle door: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man in his tent door.

And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of the Lord besides, that we might enquire of him?

And let it be, when thou hearest the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt bestir thyself: for then shall the Lord go out before thee, to smite the host of the Philistines.

And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:

Judge me, O Lord; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the Lord; therefore I shall not slide.

God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.

And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the Lord, but to the physicians.

Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among them that call upon his name; they called upon the Lord, and he answered them.

And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.

The Lord make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the Lord.

And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.

Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the Lord, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.

And the children of Israel stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.

Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.

And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.

For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not.

That we have built us an altar to turn from following the Lord, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord himself require it;

My soul breaketh for the longing that it hath unto thy judgments at all times.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts? or who hath given understanding to the heart?

And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.

And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing the Lord hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.

Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.

Then came the word of the Lord to Isaiah, saying,

And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.

For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

And hide not thy face from thy servant; for I am in trouble: hear me speedily.

That walk to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth; to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to trust in the shadow of Egypt!

And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant.

And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this shall be a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.

And he said unto his servant, Come, and let us draw near to one of these places to lodge all night, in Gibeah, or in Ramah.

To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

And the king said, Is there not yet any of the house of Saul, that I may shew the kindness of God unto him? And Ziba said unto the king, Jonathan hath yet a son, which is lame on his feet.

Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.

Cause me to hear thy lovingkindness in the morning; for in thee do I trust: cause me to know the way wherein I should walk; for I lift up my soul unto thee.

And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

And Moses did so: as the Lord commanded him, so did he.

After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of the high places.

Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the Lord your God giveth you.

And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing to day.

I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the Lord: and Samuel cried unto the Lord for Israel; and the Lord heard him.

He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.

If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Not for thy righteousness, or for the uprightness of thine heart, dost thou go to possess their land: but for the wickedness of these nations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee, and that he may perform the word which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.

And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

And David built there an altar unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings, and called upon the Lord; and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering.

For the Lord shall rise up as in mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the Lord do that which is good in his sight.

The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.

I have kept thy precepts and thy testimonies: for all my ways are before thee.

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire: thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them, nor take it unto thee, lest thou be snared therein: for it is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Now therefore, behold, the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the Lord hath spoken evil against thee.

I will hear what God the Lord will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.

Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:

Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any.

And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.

Come and hear, all ye that fear God, and I will declare what he hath done for my soul.

Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? And he said, A rod.

That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,

I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.