31 Bible Verses about exploring

Thus says the LORD; If heaven above can be measured, and the foundations of the earth searched out beneath, I will also cast off all the descendants of Israel for all that they have done, says the LORD.

And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this severe burden has God given to the sons of man to be afflicted with.

Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover; though a wise man thinks to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and like grasping the wind.

And they returned from searching of the land after forty days.

But God has revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.

And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to survey the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and survey it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.

After the number of the days in which you searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall you bear your iniquities, even forty years, and you shall know my displeasure.

And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

Have you entered into the springs of the sea? or have you walked in search of the depths?

Send men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: of every tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them.

But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of the men that went to search the land, lived still.

And Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, and said unto them, Go up this way into the South, and go up into the mountains:

In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

I sought in my heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men, which they should do under heaven all the days of their life.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

[To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, you have searched me, and known me.

To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their riddles.

Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.

And Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah:

And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, who come of the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.

And Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and possess it; for we are well able to overcome it.

For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eats up its inhabitants; and all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature.

Say unto them, As truly as I live, says the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:

The spirit of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching all the inner depths of the heart.

Of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun.

And be not conformed to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

And they shall set apart men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the travelers those that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they make a search.

And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.