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Example sentences for "seek after"

  • One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

  • Because they have called thee, O Sion, an outcast: This is she that hath none to seek after her.

  • Wisdom Chapter 6 An address to princes to seek after wisdom: she is easily found by those that seek her.

  • Charity to self would require one to seek after an honor, if the honor were necessary and the manner of seeking it honorable.

  • Charity does not require one to seek after a good name, when this should or may be sacrificed for the sake of some higher good.

  • Charity to self would forbid one to seek after an honor, if the honor would prove harmful, or if it could not be obtained in a respectable way.

  • By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

  • He hath made the earth by his power, he hath established the world by his wisdom, and hath stretched out the heaven by his understanding.

  • The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

  • And understanding of the willingness that is in the heart of God to save sinners, there is nothing will press the soul more to seek after God, and to cry for pardon, than it.

  • God that ever He should show to it its sad condition, and that He should incline its heart to seek after a better condition.

  • Tenderness is a thing of great worth to such; and such men are much inquired after by such; yea, their tenderness is an invitation to such to seek after them.

  • Let the coming sinner, therefore, seek after more of the good knowledge of Jesus Christ.

  • Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness.

  • To follow up; to chase; to seek after; to endeavor to win; to woo.

  • I seek after' There are two points to be kept in view to that end.

  • One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, that I may see the delight of the Lord.

  • One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life.

  • One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after.

  • You know there is still something presented under the notion of good and convenient, that moves our will, and inclines us for its own goodness to seek after it, and so to fall upon the means to compass it.

  • Every man proposes this within himself as the principle of his life and conversation, what shall I seek after?

  • Augustine: One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life!

  • But our desires are holy in proportion as they are confined to one thing, in accordance with those words of the Psalmist[228]: One thing I have asked of the Lord, this will I seek after.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seek after" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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