who hast said by the mouth of thy servant David, Why have the nations raged haughtily and the peoples meditated vain things?

But Peter said, Ananias, why has Satan filled thy heart that thou shouldest lie to the Holy Spirit, and put aside for thyself a part of the price of the estate?

While it remained did it not remain to thee? and sold, was it not in thine own power? Why is it that thou hast purposed this thing in thine heart? Thou hast not lied to men, but to God.

And Peter said to her, Why is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? Lo, the feet of those that have buried thy husband are at the door, and they shall carry thee out.

And on the morrow he shewed himself to them as they were contending, and compelled them to peace, saying, Ye are brethren, why do ye wrong one another?

and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?

and saying, Men, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, preaching to you to turn from these vanities to the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things in them;

Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?

And now why lingerest thou? Arise and get baptised, and have thy sins washed away, calling on his name.

And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty of the matter why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and having brought Paul down set him before them.

Why should it be judged a thing incredible in your sight if God raises the dead?

And, when we were all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against goads.

For if the truth of God, in my lie, has more abounded to his glory, why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?

Aye, but thou, O man, who art thou that answerest again to God? Shall the thing formed say to him that has formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

But thou, why judgest thou thy brother? or again, thou, why dost thou make little of thy brother? for we shall all be placed before the judgment-seat of God.

For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?

Already indeed then it is altogether a fault in you that ye have suits between yourselves. Why do ye not rather suffer wrong? why are ye not rather defrauded?

but conscience, I mean, not thine own, but that of the other: for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

If I partake with thanksgiving, why am I spoken evil of for what I give thanks for?

Since what shall the baptised for the dead do if those that are dead rise not at all? why also are they baptised for them?

Why do we also endanger ourselves every hour?

Why? because I do not love you? God knows.

Why then the law? It was added for the sake of transgressions, until the seed came to whom the promise was made, ordained through angels in the hand of a mediator.

But I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why am I yet persecuted? Then the scandal of the cross has been done away.

If ye have died with Christ from the elements of the world, why as if alive in the world do ye subject yourselves to ordinances?

And the angel said to me, Why hast thou wondered? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast which carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.