'Wherefore' in the Bible

And he said to them, 'Why are ye troubled? and wherefore do reasonings come up in your hearts?

the officers came, therefore, unto the chief priests and Pharisees, and they said to them, 'Wherefore did ye not bring him?'

wherefore do ye not know my speech? because ye are not able to hear my word.

Who of you doth convict me of sin? and if I speak truth, wherefore do ye not believe me?

'Wherefore was not this ointment sold for three hundred denaries, and given to the poor?'

Peter saith to him, 'Sir, wherefore am I not able to follow thee now? my life for thee I will lay down;'

And Peter said, 'Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?

'On the succeeding day, also, he shewed himself to them as they are striving, and urged them to peace, saying, Men, brethren are ye, wherefore do ye injustice to one another?

wherefore also in another place he saith, Thou shalt not give Thy kind One to see corruption,

wherefore I judge: not to trouble those who from the nations do turn back to God,

wherefore I take you to witness this day, that I am clear from the blood of all,

and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set him before them.

concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;

especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.

wherefore be of good cheer, men! for I believe God, that so it shall be, even as it hath been spoken to me,

wherefore I call upon you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall;'

Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

wherefore? because -- not by faith, but as by works of law; for they did stumble at the stone of stumbling,

Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only because of the wrath, but also because of the conscience,

wherefore receive ye one another, according as also the Christ did receive us, to the glory of God.

Wherefore, also, I was hindered many times from coming unto you,

Already, indeed, then, there is altogether a fault among you, that ye have judgments with one another; wherefore do ye not rather suffer injustice? wherefore be ye not rather defrauded?

wherefore, if victuals cause my brother to stumble, I may eat no flesh -- to the age -- that my brother I may not cause to stumble.

Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

wherefore, I give you to understand that no one, in the Spirit of God speaking, saith Jesus is anathema, and no one is able to say Jesus is Lord, except in the Holy Spirit.

wherefore he who is speaking in an unknown tongue -- let him pray that he may interpret;

wherefore, I call upon you to confirm love to him,

wherefore, we faint not, but if also our outward man doth decay, yet the inward is renewed day by day;

Wherefore also we are ambitious, whether at home or away from home, to be well pleasing to him,

wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I -- I will receive you,

wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

wherefore I am well pleased in infirmities, in damages, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses -- for Christ; for whenever I am infirm, then I am powerful;

having known also that a man is not declared righteous by works of law, if not through the faith of Jesus Christ, also we in Christ Jesus did believe, that we might be declared righteous by the faith of Christ, and not by works of law, wherefore declared righteous by works of law shall be no flesh.'

Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

wherefore, I ask you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

wherefore, he saith, 'Having gone up on high he led captive captivity, and gave gifts to men,' --

Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

wherefore he saith, 'Arouse thyself, thou who art sleeping, and arise out of the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.'

wherefore, also, God did highly exalt him, and gave to him a name that is above every name,

wherefore we wished to come unto you, (I indeed Paul,) both once and again, and the Adversary did hinder us;

Wherefore no longer forbearing, we thought good to be left in Athens alone,

wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

Wherefore, having in Christ much boldness to command thee that which is fit --

wherefore it did behove him in all things to be made like to the brethren, that he might become a kind and stedfast chief-priest in the things with God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people,

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the apostle and chief priest of our profession, Christ Jesus,

Wherefore, (as the Holy Spirit saith, 'To-day, if His voice ye may hear --

wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, Always do they go astray in heart, and these have not known My ways;

Wherefore, having left the word of the beginning of the Christ, unto the perfection we may advance, not again a foundation laying of reformation from dead works, and of faith on God,

Wherefore, coming into the world, he saith, 'Sacrifice and offering Thou didst not will, and a body Thou didst prepare for me,

wherefore, also from one were begotten -- and that of one who had become dead -- as the stars of the heaven in multitude, and as sand that is by the sea-shore -- the innumerable.

but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

wherefore, a kingdom that cannot be shaken receiving, may we have grace, through which we may serve God well-pleasingly, with reverence and religious fear;

Wherefore, also Jesus -- that he might sanctify through his own blood the people -- without the gate did suffer;

wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls;

and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

Wherefore, also, it is contained in the Writing: 'Lo, I lay in Zion a chief corner-stone, choice, precious, and he who is believing on him may not be put to shame;'

wherefore, the rather, brethren, be diligent to make stedfast your calling and choice, for these things doing, ye may never stumble,

Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

wherefore, beloved, these things waiting for, be diligent, spotless and unblameable, by Him to be found in peace,

not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

and the messenger said to me, 'Wherefore didst thou wonder? I -- I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast that is carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns.