Bible Verses about 'Why'

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• Why are you cast down, O my soul,
  and why are you in turmoil within me?
  Hope in God; for I shall again praise him,
  my salvation and my God.
  Psalm 42:11 worship hope soul
• And I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to me, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
  Acts 22:7 speaking miracles persecution
• Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
  Matthew 7:3 sin judgment
• And now why do you wait? Rise and be baptized and wash away your sins, calling on his name.
  Acts 22:16 baptism sin purification
• Say not, “Why were the former days better than these?”
  For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
  Ecclesiastes 7:10 wisdom life
• But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.”
  Acts 5:3-4 lying money honesty
• And while they were gazing into heaven as he went, behold, two men stood by them in white robes, and said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into heaven? This Jesus, who was taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you saw him go into heaven.”
  Acts 1:10-11 ascension second coming heaven
• I have made a covenant with my eyes;
  how then could I gaze at a virgin?
  Job 31:1 desires self-control covenant
• I, I am he who comforts you;
  who are you that you are afraid of man who dies,
  of the son of man who is made like grass.
  Isaiah 51:12 comforter fear encouragement
• See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him.
  1 John 3:1 love Father children
• One Sabbath he was going through the grainfields, and as they made their way, his disciples began to pluck heads of grain. And the Pharisees were saying to him, “Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?” And he said to them, “Have you never read what David did, when he was in need and was hungry, he and those who were with him: how he entered the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the bread of the Presence, which it is not lawful for any but the priests to eat, and also gave it to those who were with him?” And he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”
  Mark 2:23-28 sabbath bread
• Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. Why, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not; you are of more value than many sparrows.
  Luke 12:6-7 valuable fear encouragement
• For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing.
  Romans 13:6 honesty money greed
• For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
  2 Corinthians 12:10 joy strength persecution
• When your eyes light on it, it is gone,
  for suddenly it sprouts wings,
  flying like an eagle toward heaven.
  Proverbs 23:5 money desires materialism
• And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
  Genesis 2:22-24 marriage creation body
• The Lord is my light and my salvation;
  whom shall I fear?
  The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
  of whom shall I be afraid?
  Psalm 27:1 safety fear light
• My mouth is filled with your praise,
  and with your glory all the day.
  Psalm 71:8 speaking worship praise
• But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.
  Mark 10:6-9 marriage body sexuality
• Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  Romans 8:8 sin dependence desires
• He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
  Matthew 19:4-6 marriage sexuality creation
• And if you do good to those who do good to you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
  Luke 6:33 righteousness reward
• So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
  2 Corinthians 4:16 beauty encouragement receiving
• In God, whose word I praise,
  in God I trust; I shall not be afraid.
  What can flesh do to me?
  Psalm 56:4 trust fear Word of God
• “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
  “return to me with all your heart,
  with fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
  Joel 2:12 conversion fasting sadness
• Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
  Matthew 5:17 law Jesus prophecy
• Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?
  Matthew 6:25 food life worrying
• Do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing.
  Luke 12:22b-23 worrying food life
• You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  Deuteronomy 5:15 sabbath slavery
• Because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
  Romans 1:25-28 idols sexuality desires
• Therefore he is the mediator of a new covenant, so that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, since a death has occurred that redeems them from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.
  Hebrews 9:15 law Savior mediator
• Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
  Exodus 20:8-11 sabbath