14 Bible Verses about Why People Did Things

Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were wicked, and those of his brother righteous.

And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he had done these things on the sabbath-day.

And he said, for this reason shall a man forsake father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

and said, For this cause shall a man forsake father and mother, and shall adhere to his wife;

For this reason shall a man forsake his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be as one flesh.

He saith unto them, It was on account of the hardness of your hearts that Moses gave you permission to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not thus.

Jesus replied to them and said, Ye seek me, not because ye have seen the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.

I tell you, though even he would not rise and give him because he is his friend; yet because of his importunity, roused up, he will give him as many as he needeth.

Then the woman seeing she was not hid, came trembling, and falling down before him, declared to him before all the people, for what cause she had touched him; and how she was cured instantaneously.

And a vast multitude followed him, because they saw the miracles which he performed on those who were diseased.

Now he said this, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and kept the purse, and carried the money put therein.

Therefore also the multitude met him, because they had heard that he had done this miracle.

And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor me.

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