Bible Verses about 'Why'

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• Why are you in despair, my soul?
  And why are you restless within me?
  Wait for God, for I will again praise Him
  For the help of His presence, 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
• Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother’s eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?
  Matthew 7:3sinjudgment
• Now why do you delay? Get up and be baptized, and wash away your sins by calling on His name.
  Acts 22:16baptismsinpurification
• Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?”
  For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.
  Ecclesiastes 7:10wisdomlife
• But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back some of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God.”
  Acts 5:3-4lyingmoneyhonesty
• And as they were gazing intently into the sky while He was going, then behold, two men in white clothing stood beside them, and they said, “Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in the same way as you have watched Him go into heaven.”
  Acts 1:10-11ascensionsecond comingheaven
• I have made a covenant with my eyes;
  How then could I look at a virgin?
  Job 31:1desiresself-controlcovenant
• I, I Myself, am He who comforts you.
  Who are you that you are afraid of mortal man,
  And of a son of man who is made like grass.
  Isaiah 51:12comforterfearencouragement
• And it happened that He was passing through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began to make their way along while picking the heads of grain. 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 he and his companions became hungry; how he entered the house of God in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which is not lawful for anyone to eat except the priests, and he also gave it to those who were with him?” Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord, even of the Sabbath.”
  Mark 2:23-28sabbathbread
• For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing.
  Romans 13:6honestymoneygreed
• Therefore I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in distresses, in persecutions, in difficulties, in behalf of Christ; for when I am weak, then I am strong.
  2 Corinthians 12:10joystrengthpersecution
• When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
  For wealth certainly makes itself wings
  Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.
  Proverbs 23:5moneydesiresmaterialism
• And the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. Then the man said,
  “At last this is bone of my bones,
  And flesh of my flesh;
  She shall be called ‘woman,’
  Because she was taken out of man.”
  For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh.
  Genesis 2:22-24marriagecreationbody
• The Lord is my light and my salvation;
  Whom should I fear?
  The Lord is the defense of my life;
  Whom should I dread?
  Psalm 27:1safetyfearlight
• My mouth is filled with Your praise
  And with Your glory all day long.
  Psalm 71:8speakingworshippraise
• See how great a love the Father has given us, that we would be called children of God; and in fact we are. For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know Him.
  1 John 3:1loveFatherchildren
• But from the beginning of creation, God created them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh; so they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.
  Mark 10:6-9marriagebodysexuality
• Are five sparrows not sold for two assaria? And yet not one of them has gone unnoticed in the sight of God. But even the hairs of your head are all counted. Do not fear; you are more valuable than a great number of sparrows.
  Luke 12:6-7valuablefearencouragement
• And those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  Romans 8:8sindependencedesires
• And He answered and said, “Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, no person is to separate.”
  Matthew 19:4-6marriagesexualitycreation
• And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
  Luke 6:33righteousnessreward
• Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer person is decaying, yet our inner person is being renewed day by day.
  2 Corinthians 4:16beautyencouragementreceiving
• In God, whose word I praise,
  In God I have put my trust;
  I shall not be afraid.
  What can mere mortals do to me?
  Psalm 56:4trustfearWord of God
• “Yet even now,” declares the Lord,
  “Return to Me with all your heart,
  And with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”
  Joel 2:12conversionfastingsadness