Bible Verses about 'Why do bad things happen'
- Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
- I fell to the ground and heard a voice say to me, ‘Saul! Saul! Why do you persecute me?’
- Do not be misled: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
- Why, my soul, are you downcast?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him,
my Savior and my God. - Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.
- Do not say, “Why were the old days better than these?”
For it is not wise to ask such questions. - And now what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized and wash your sins away, calling on his name.
- “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but not everything is constructive.
- Truly I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them.
- They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside them. “Men of Galilee,” they said, “why do you stand here looking into the sky? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen him go into heaven.”
- God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him.
- These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
- Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
- Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.
- Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
- No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
- “I have the right to do anything,” you say—but not everything is beneficial. “I have the right to do anything”—but I will not be mastered by anything.
- Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.
- I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
- For he satisfies the thirsty
and fills the hungry with good things. - What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
- Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
- For from him and through him and for him are all things.
To him be the glory forever! Amen. - Lord, you are my God;
I will exalt you and praise your name,
for in perfect faithfulness
you have done wonderful things,
things planned long ago. - We are witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God has given to those who obey him.
Bible verse of the day
See, the enemy is puffed up;his desires are not upright—
but the righteous person will live by his faithfulness.