Why

Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.

Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before God’s judgment seat.

That is why I have often been hindered from coming to you.

For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?

That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.

The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

…the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

If I partake in the meal with thankfulness, why am I denounced because of that for which I give thanks?

That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.

If these things are not so, what will those do who are baptized for the dead? If the dead are not raised at all, why are people baptized for them?

And why do we endanger ourselves every hour?

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows I do!

That is why, for the sake of Christ, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

This is why I write these things while absent, so that when I am present I will not need to be severe in my use of the authority that the Lord gave me for building you up, not for tearing you down.

Why then was the law given? It was added because of transgressions, until the arrival of the seed to whom the promise referred. It was administered through angels by a mediator.

Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.”

If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring.

For perhaps this is why he was separated from you for a while, so that you might have him back for good—

That is why he is obligated to offer sacrifices for his own sins, as well as for the sins of the people.

Now if perfection could have been attained through the Levitical priesthood (for on this basis the people received the law), why was there still need for another priest to appear—one in the order of Melchizedek and not in the order of Aaron?

The place where they serve is a copy and shadow of what is in heaven. This is why Moses was warned when he was about to build the tabernacle: “See to it that you make everything according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”

That is why even the first covenant was not put into effect without blood.

This is why the ancients were commended.

But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

That is why the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged as men in the flesh, but live according to God in the spirit.

The one who practices sin is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the very start. This is why the Son of God was revealed, to destroy the works of the devil.

Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

They are of the world. That is why they speak from the world’s perspective, and the world listens to them.

“Why are you so amazed?” said the angel. “I will tell you the mystery of the woman and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and ten horns.