Bible Verses about 'Why'

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• Why are you so disheartened, O my soul?
  Why do you sigh within me?
  Place your hope in God;
  for I will once again praise him,
  my Savior and my God.
  Psalm 42:12worshiphopesoul
• I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?’
  Acts 22:7speakingmiraclespersecution
• Why do you take note of the splinter in your brother’s eye but do not notice the wooden plank in your own eye?
  Matthew 7:3sinjudgment
• And now, what are you waiting for? Get up, be baptized, and have your sins washed away, calling on his name.
  Acts 22:16baptismsinpurification
• Do not assert that the past was better than the present,
  for such a statement is not a sign of wisdom.
  Ecclesiastes 7:10wisdomlife
• I, I alone, am the one who comforts you.
  Why then do you fear mortal men who must die,
  human beings who must perish like grass?
  Isaiah 51:12comforterfearencouragement
• Then Peter asked, “Ananias, why has Satan so gained control of your heart that you lied to the Holy Spirit and retained part of the sale price of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not belong to you? And after it was sold, were not the proceeds yours? What caused you to contrive this scheme? You have lied not to men but to God.”
  Acts 5:3-4lyingmoneyhonesty
• That is why you also pay taxes, for the authorities are God’s servants, and they devote themselves to this service.
  Romans 13:6honestymoneygreed
• While he was departing as they gazed upward toward the sky, suddenly two men dressed in white robes stood beside them, and they said, “Men of Galilee, why are you standing there looking up into the sky? This Jesus who has been taken up from you into heaven will come back in the same way as you have seen him going into heaven.”
  Acts 1:10-11ascensionsecond comingheaven
• I have made a covenant with my eyes
  not to look with desire upon a virgin.
  Job 31:1desiresself-controlcovenant
• One day, as Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the Sabbath, his disciples began to pick some heads of grain as they walked along. The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why are your disciples doing what is forbidden on the Sabbath?”
  
  He answered, “Have you never read what David did when he and his companions were hungry and in need of food? He entered the house of God when Abiathar was high priest and ate the sacred bread that only the priests were permitted to eat, and he shared it with his companions.” Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. That is why the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”
  Mark 2:23-28sabbathbread
• The Lord God then formed a woman out of the rib that he had taken from the man. He brought her before the man.
  The man said,
  “This one is bone of my bones
  and flesh of my flesh.
  She shall be called woman
  because she was taken from man.”
  This is why a man leaves his father and his mother and joins with a wife, and the two become one flesh.
  Genesis 2:22-24marriagecreationbody
• But from the very beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ‘That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one flesh.’ And so they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.
  Mark 10:6-9marriagebodysexuality
• He replied, “Have you not read that from the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female’ and said: ‘That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one flesh’? And so they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.”
  Matthew 19:4-6marriagesexualitycreation
• For this reason, I rejoice when I endure weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and distress for the sake of Christ. For it is when I am weak that I am strong.
  2 Corinthians 12:10joystrengthpersecution
• When you fix your gaze upon it,
  it is gone before you realize it.
  For it suddenly sprouts wings
  and flies up to the sky like an eagle.
  Proverbs 23:5moneydesiresmaterialism
• The Lord is my light and my salvation;
  whom should I fear?
  The Lord is the stronghold of my life;
  of whom should I be afraid?
  Psalm 27:1safetyfearlight
• They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and offered worship and service to the creature rather than to the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. That is why God abandoned them to their shameful passions. Their women exchanged natural intercourse for unnatural practices. Likewise, men gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another. Men committed shameful acts with men and received in their own persons the fitting penalty for their perversion. Furthermore, since these people did not see fit to acknowledge God, he abandoned them to their depraved way of thinking and to all types of vile behavior.
  Romans 1:25-28idolssexualitydesires
• My mouth is filled with your praises
  as I relate your glory all day long.
  Psalm 71:8speakingworshippraise
• See what love
  the Father has bestowed on us,
  enabling us to be called the children of God,
  and that is what we are.
  If the world does not recognize us,
  that is because it did not know him.
  1 John 3:1loveFatherchildren
• Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And yet not one of them is forgotten in God’s sight. Even the hairs on your head have all been counted. Do not be afraid. You are worth far more than any number of sparrows.
  Luke 12:6-7valuablefearencouragement
• Those who live according to the flesh can never be pleasing to God.
  Romans 8:8sindependencedesires
• And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do as much.
  Luke 6:33righteousnessreward
• Therefore, we do not lose heart. Even though our outer self is continuing to decay, our inner self is being renewed day by day.
  2 Corinthians 4:16beautyencouragementreceiving
• In God, whose word I praise,
  in God I place my trust and know no fear;
  what can people do to me?
  Psalm 56:5trustfearWord of God