'Cause' in the Bible

For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.

And Sarah said, God has given me cause for laughing, and everyone who has news of it will be laughing with me.

And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us: