1 Chronicles 28:9

As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.

Cross References (50)

  • Jeremiah 29:13 (326)

    You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.

  • James 4:8–11 (163)

    Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-mind

  • Matthew 7:7–8 (147)

    Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.

  • Isaiah 55:6–7 (146)

    Seek the LORD while He may be found; call on Him while He is near.

  • Jeremiah 24:7 (122)

    I will give them a heart to know Me, that I am the LORD. They will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will

  • 1 Kings 8:61 (113)

    So let your heart be fully devoted to the LORD our God, as it is this day, to walk in His statutes and to keep His comma

  • Proverbs 2:1–6 (106)

    My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,

  • 2 Chronicles 15:2 (99)

    So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you

  • Psalms 9:10 (95)

    Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.

  • 1 Samuel 16:7 (79)

    But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or height, for I have rejected him; the LORD does not see a

  • John 4:24 (78)

    God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

  • Jeremiah 17:10 (72)

    I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

  • Psalms 139:2 (64)

    You know when I sit and when I rise; You understand my thoughts from afar.

  • Hebrews 10:38–39 (55)

    But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he shrinks back, I will take no pleasure in him.”

  • Jeremiah 9:24 (47)

    But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the LORD, who exercises loving devotio

  • Hosea 4:1 (43)

    Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a case against the people of the land: “There is no tr

  • John 17:3 (43)

    Now this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.

  • 1 Chronicles 29:17–19 (41)

    I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an

  • Jeremiah 31:34 (38)

    No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from

  • Isaiah 45:19 (36)

    I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in

  • 2 Kings 20:3 (34)

    “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what is go

  • Exodus 15:2 (32)

    The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s Go

  • Jeremiah 22:16 (32)

    He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declare

  • 1 Chronicles 29:9 (30)

    And the people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they had given to the LORD freely and wholehearted

  • 1 Kings 8:39 (28)

    be heard by You from heaven, Your dwelling place. And may You forgive and act, and repay each man according to all his w

  • 1 Kings 9:6–9 (28)

    But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set befo

  • Acts 17:30 (27)

    Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.

  • Hebrews 4:13 (25)

    Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom w

  • Psalms 101:2 (25)

    I will ponder the way that is blameless—when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.

  • Psalms 7:9 (23)

    Put an end to the evil of the wicked, but establish the righteous, O righteous God who searches hearts and minds.

  • Deuteronomy 31:21 (20)

    And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be

  • 2 Kings 22:2 (19)

    And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD and walked in all the ways of his father David; he did not turn aside

  • Hebrews 12:28 (19)

    Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably

  • Job 36:11–12 (17)

    If they obey and serve Him, then they end their days in prosperity and their years in happiness.

  • Romans 1:28–29 (17)

    Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to

  • Acts 1:24 (17)

    And they prayed, “Lord, You know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two You have chosen

  • John 2:25 (16)

    He did not need any testimony about man, for He knew what was in a man.

  • Deuteronomy 4:35 (16)

    You were shown these things so that you would know that the LORD is God; there is no other besides Him.

  • Hosea 4:6 (16)

    My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests

  • John 21:17 (16)

    Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third ti

  • 2 Corinthians 4:6 (15)

    For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the kno

  • Genesis 8:21 (14)

    When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, eve

  • Ezekiel 38:10 (13)

    This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your mind, and you will devise an evil plan.

  • Proverbs 17:3 (13)

    A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.

  • Ezra 8:22 (13)

    For I was ashamed to ask the king for an escort of soldiers and horsemen to protect us from our enemies on the road, sin

  • Exodus 3:16 (13)

    Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jac

  • Jeremiah 11:20 (13)

    O LORD of Hosts, who judges righteously, who examines the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to Yo

  • Deuteronomy 31:16–17 (12)

    And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselv

  • Psalms 18:2 (12)

    The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer. My God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of

  • Jeremiah 20:12 (12)

    O LORD of Hosts, who examines the righteous, who sees the heart and mind, let me see Your vengeance upon them, for to Yo