18 Bible Verses about Why People Did Things

Not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And for what slew he him? Because his works were evil, and those of his brother just.

And Abner will turn back to Hebron, and Joab will turn him away to the midst of the gate to speak with him in quiet, and he will strike him there in the belly, and he will die for the blood of Asahel his brother.

And Joab and Abishai his brother killed Abner because be slew Asahel their brother in Gibeon in war.

And Abraham will say, For I said, Surely there is not the fear of God in this place; and they will kill me because of my wife.

And the men will be afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they will say, For the word of the silver turned back in our sacks at the beginning, we were brought in; to roll himself upon us and to fall upon us and to take us for servants and our asses.

And therefore the Jews drove out Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these in the sabbath.

And said, For this shall a man leave father and mother, and be joined to his wife: and they two shall be one flesh?

For this will a man leave his father and mother, and be attached to his wife;

For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

He says to them that Moses for your hard heart permitted you to loose your wives: and from the beginning it was not so.

Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly, I say to you, ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but for that ye ate of the loaves, and were satisfied.

I say to you, If also having risen he will not give him because of being his friend, yet for his effrontery, having risen, he will give him as many as he needs.

And the woman having seen that she was not hid, came trembling, and having fallen before him, announced to him before all people for what cause she touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

And a great crowd followed him, for they saw his signs which he did upon the sick.

And this he said, not that care was to him for the poor: but because he was a thief, and had the small coffer, and carried things deposited.

And for this the crowd met him, for they heard he had done this sign.

And these things shall they do to you, for they know not the Father, nor me.

And the Pharisees came to him, tempting him, and saying to him, Is it lawful for a man to loose his wife for every cause