Bible Verses about 'Why do bad things happen'

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• And why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?
  Matthew 7:3sinjudgment
• Why are you cast down, O my soul?
  And why are you disquieted within me?
  Hope in God;
  For I shall yet praise Him,
  The help of my countenance and my God.
  Psalm 42:11worshiphopesoul
• And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?’
  Acts 22:7speakingmiraclespersecution
• And now why are you waiting? Arise and be baptized, and wash away your sins, calling on the name of the Lord.
  Acts 22:16baptismsinpurification
• Do not say,
  “Why were the former days better than these?”
  For you do not inquire wisely concerning this.
  Ecclesiastes 7:10wisdomlife
• Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth.
  Colossians 3:2heavenmindworld
• All things are lawful for me, but not all things are helpful; all things are lawful for me, but not all things edify.
  1 Corinthians 10:23lawgoodnessrighteousness
• Do not be deceived: “Evil company corrupts good habits.”
  1 Corinthians 15:33evilgoodnessfriendship
• Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  1 Corinthians 13:6-7lovetruthevil
• And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as He went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel, who also said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand gazing up into heaven? This same Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven.”
  Acts 1:10-11ascensionsecond comingheaven
• While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.
  2 Corinthians 4:18eternal lifematerialismunderstanding
• I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
  Philippians 4:13Godstrengthprotection
• Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
  Hebrews 11:1faithtruthhope
• All things are lawful for me, but all things are not helpful. All things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
  1 Corinthians 6:12addictiondesireslife
• And the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, that no flesh should glory in His presence.
  1 Corinthians 1:28-29humilitycallingworld
• For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says.
  Mark 11:23trustfaithheart
• I have made a covenant with my eyes;
  Why then should I look upon a young woman?
  Job 31:1desiresself-controlcovenant
• But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”
  Acts 5:3-4lyingmoneyhonesty
• But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.
  1 Corinthians 2:10GodSpiritplanning
• And if you say in your heart, ‘How shall we know the word which the Lord has not spoken?’— when a prophet speaks in the name of the Lord, if the thing does not happen or come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord has not spoken; the prophet has spoken it presumptuously; you shall not be afraid of him.
  Deuteronomy 18:21-22prophecytruthspeaking
• Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
  Romans 8:37overcomingGodlove
• Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.
  Jeremiah 33:3prayerunderstandinglistening
• Yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
  1 Corinthians 8:6FatherlifeJesus
• For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
  Romans 8:5lifebodySpirit
• Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things.
  Philippians 4:8truthrighteousnessthoughts