18 Bible Verses about Why People Did Things
Most Relevant Verses
We should not be like Cain who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he murder him? It was because his works were evil, and his brother's were righteous.
Abner arrived in Hebron. Joab took him aside at the gate, as though he wanted to speak privately with him. There he stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner was murdered because he had killed Joab's brother Asahel.
Joab and his brother Abishai took revenge and murdered Abner for killing their brother Asahel in the battle at Gibeon.
Abraham said: I thought that because there are no people who reverence God in this place, I would be killed because of my wife.
On the way they were worried and started talking: We are being taken there because of the money that was put back in our sacks last time. He will arrest us and take our donkeys. He will make us his slaves!
The Jews persecuted Jesus because he did these things on the Sabbath.
For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife. The two shall become one flesh.
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and will stick (adhere) (cleave) (be joined) to his wife. The two will become one flesh.
He answered: Moses allowed you to send your wives away because of your hardness of heart. It was not allowed from the beginning.
Jesus said: Truly I tell you, you seek me not because you saw miracles but because you ate of the loaves and were full.
I tell you even if he will not rise and give you what you need because he is your friend, he will arise and give you what you need because you keep asking.
When the woman knew she was discovered she trembled, fell down before him and declared in the presence of all the people why she touched him, and how she was healed immediately.
He did not say this because he cared for the poor. He was a thief. He had the moneybox and took away what was put in it.
For this reason also the crowd met him, for they heard that he had performed this miracle.
Pharisees came to him. They tested him, asking: Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?
