14 Bible Verses about Why People Did Things

not as Cain was of the Evil One, and slew his brother. And wherefore did he slay him? Because his own works were evil, and his brothers righteous.

And on this account the Jews persecuted Jesus, because he did these things on the sabbath.

And He said: "For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife; and the two shall become one flesh."

"For this cause shall a man leave his father and his mother;

"For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh."

He saith to them, Moses, on account of your hardness of heart, allowed you m put away your wives; but in the beginning it was not so.

Jesus answered them and said, Truly, truly do I say to you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw signs, but because ye ate of the loaves, and were filled.

I say to you, though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

And the woman, seeing that she was discovered, came trembling, and falling down before him declared before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was cured immediately.

And a great multitude followed him, because they saw the signs which he wrought on the diseased.

And this he said, not because he cared for the poor, but because he was a thief, and kept the purse, and bore what was put therein.

For this cause also the multitude met him, because they had heard that he had wrought, this sign.

And these things will they do, because they neither know the Father nor me.

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