9 Bible Verses about Why God Did Things

Moses told his father-in-law all that the Lord had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel's sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the Lord had delivered them.

Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God's wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

But for this purpose I have caused you to stand: to show you my strength, and so that my name may be declared in all the earth.

For the scripture says to Pharaoh: "For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may demonstrate my power in you, and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth."

The man said to me, "Son of man, watch closely, listen carefully, and pay attention to everything I show you, for you have been brought here so that I can show it to you. Tell the house of Israel everything you see."

For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.

He replied, "Let us go elsewhere, into the surrounding villages, so that I can preach there too. For that is what I came out here to do."

This is why the Father loves me -- because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was revealed: to destroy the works of the devil.