KJV King James Version
And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
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Jeremiah 29:13
And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.
WEB World English Bible
You shall seek me, and find me, when you shall search for me with all your heart.
ASV American Standard Version
And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;
Surrounding context — Jeremiah 29
10 For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.
12 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you.
13 And ye shall seek me, and find [me], when ye shall search for me with all your heart.
14 And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all the nations, and from all the places whither I have driven you, saith the LORD; and I will bring you again into the place whence I caused you to be carried away captive.
15 Because ye have said, The LORD hath raised us up prophets in Babylon;
16 [Know] that thus saith the LORD of the king that sitteth upon the throne of David, and of all the people that dwelleth in this city, [and] of your brethren that are not gone forth with you into captivity;
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Deuteronomy 4:29-31But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find [him], if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.Psalm 119:2Blessed [are] they that keep his testimonies, [and that] seek him with the whole heart.Matthew 7:7Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:Psalm 119:10With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.Jeremiah 24:7And I will give them an heart to know me, that I [am] the LORD: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God: for they shall return unto me with their whole heart.Joel 2:12Therefore also now, saith the LORD, turn ye [even] to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning:Luke 11:9-10And I say unto you, Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.Psalm 91:15He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I [will be] with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honour him.Isaiah 55:6-7Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:Psalm 119:145KOPH. I cried with [my] whole heart; hear me, O LORD: I will keep thy statutes.2 Chronicles 31:21And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did [it] with all his heart, and prospered.Psalm 119:58I intreated thy favour with [my] whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word.2 Chronicles 6:37-39Yet [if] they bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn and pray unto thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done amiss, and have dealt wickedly;2 Chronicles 22:9And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried him: Because, said they, he [is] the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart. So the house of Ahaziah had no power to keep still the kingdom.Amos 5:4-6For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:1 Kings 8:47-50[Yet] if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they were carried captives, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captives, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;Zephaniah 2:1-3Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;Psalm 119:69The proud have forged a lie against me: [but] I will keep thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
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