20 Bible Verses about Why Do Others Do This?

And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, "Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened?

If anyone says to you, 'Why are you doing this?' say, 'The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.'"

And he said to them, "Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father's house?"

When Jesus perceived their thoughts, he answered them, "Why do you question in your hearts?

He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?"

And Peter went down to the men and said, "I am the one you are looking for. What is the reason for your coming?"

So when I was sent for, I came without objection. I ask then why you sent for me."

The LORD said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and say, 'Shall I indeed bear a child, now that I am old?'

"Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.

Then Absalom said, "If not, please let my brother Amnon go with us." And the king said to him, "Why should he go with you?"

He declared to Arioch, the king's captain, "Why is the decree of the king so urgent?" Then Arioch made the matter known to Daniel.

They said to him, "Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?"

And the disciples asked him, "Then why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?"

And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?"

He said to them, "How is it then that David, in the Spirit, calls him Lord, saying,

And why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

And he sighed deeply in his spirit and said, "Why does this generation seek a sign? Truly, I say to you, no sign will be given to this generation."

the tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying that he should be examined by flogging, to find out why they were shouting against him like this.

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?

Now some cried out one thing, some another, for the assembly was in confusion, and most of them did not know why they had come together.