Verse 4

One `thing' 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.

Referenced Verses

  • Ps 26:8 : 8 Jehovah, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, And the place of the tabernacle of Thine honour.
  • Ps 23:6 : 6 Only -- goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling `is' in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!
  • Ps 65:4 : 4 O the happiness of `him whom' Thou choosest, And drawest near, he inhabiteth Thy courts, We are satisfied with the goodness of Thy house, Thy holy temple.
  • Ps 84:10 : 10 For good `is' a day in Thy courts, O Teacher! I have chosen rather to be at the threshold, In the house of my God, Than to dwell in tents of wickedness.
  • Ps 63:2-5 : 2 So in the sanctuary I have seen Thee, To behold Thy strength and Thine honour. 3 Because better `is' Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee. 4 So I bless Thee in my life, in Thy name I lift up my hands. 5 As `with' milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And `with' singing lips doth my mouth praise.
  • Ps 84:4 : 4 O the happiness of those inhabiting Thy house, Yet do they praise Thee. Selah.
  • Ps 27:8 : 8 To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'
  • Matt 6:33 : 33 but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.
  • Phil 3:13 : 13 brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing -- the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth --
  • 2 Cor 3:18 : 18 and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
  • Ps 90:17 : 17 And let the pleasantness of Jehovah our God be upon us, And the work of our hands establish on us, Yea, the work of our hands establish it!
  • Heb 11:6 : 6 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.
  • Luke 11:9-9 : 9 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; 10 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.
  • Luke 13:24 : 24 `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;
  • Luke 18:1 : 1 And he spake also a simile to them, that it behoveth `us' always to pray, and not to faint,
  • Jer 29:13 : 13 And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;
  • Matt 7:7-8 : 7 `Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; 8 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.
  • Luke 2:37 : 37 and she `is' a widow of about eighty-four years, who did depart not from the temple, with fasts and supplications serving, night and day,
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'
  • Ps 50:2 : 2 From Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shone.
  • 1 Chr 10:13-14 : 13 And Saul dieth because of his trespass that he trespassed against Jehovah, against the word of Jehovah that he kept not, and also for asking at a familiar spirit -- to inquire, -- 14 and he inquired not at Jehovah, and He putteth him to death, and turneth round the kingdom to David son of Jesse.
  • Dan 9:3 : 3 and I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek `by' prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes.
  • Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice exceedingly, O daughter of Zion, Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, Lo, thy King doth come to thee, Righteous -- and saved is He, Afflicted -- and riding on an ass, And on a colt -- a son of she-asses.
  • 2 Cor 4:6 : 6 because `it is' God who said, Out of darkness light `is' to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I wash in innocency my hands, And I compass Thine altar, O Jehovah.
  • 1 Sam 1:11 : 11 and voweth a vow, and saith, `Jehovah of Hosts, if Thou dost certainly look on the affliction of Thy handmaid, and hast remembered me, and dost not forget Thy handmaid, and hast given to Thy handmaid seed of men -- then I have given him to Jehovah all days of his life, and a razor doth not go up upon his head.'
  • 1 Sam 30:8 : 8 and David asketh at Jehovah, saying, `I pursue after this troop -- do I overtake it?' And He saith to him, `Pursue, for thou dost certainly overtake, and dost certainly deliver.'
  • 2 Sam 21:1 : 1 And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, `For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.'