18 Bible Verses about Why People Did Things

not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside at the gate as if to speak privately with him. Joab then stabbed him in the abdomen and killed him, avenging the shed blood of his brother Asahel.

So Joab and his brother Abishai killed Abner, because he had killed their brother Asahel in Gibeon during the battle.

Abraham replied, "Because I thought, 'Surely no one fears God in this place. They will kill me because of my wife.'

But the men were afraid when they were brought to Joseph's house. They said, "We are being brought in because of the money that was returned in our sacks last time. He wants to capture us, make us slaves, and take our donkeys!"

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

and said, 'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be united with his wife, and the two will become one flesh'?

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother,

For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and will be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

Jesus said to them, "Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because of your hard hearts, but from the beginning it was not this way.

Jesus replied, "I tell you the solemn truth, you are looking for me not because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate all the loaves of bread you wanted.

I tell you, even though the man inside will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man's sheer persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

When the woman saw that she could not escape notice, she came trembling and fell down before him. In the presence of all the people, she explained why she had touched him and how she had been immediately healed.

A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

They will do these things because they have not known the Father or me.

Then some Pharisees came to him in order to test him. They asked, "Is it lawful to divorce a wife for any cause?"