Bible verses about "accidents" | Goodspeed

¹ Then Jesus was guided by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the devil. ² And he fasted forty days and nights, and after it he was famished. ³ And the tempter came up and said to him, "If you are God's son, tell these stones to turn into bread!" ⁴ But he answered, "The Scripture says, 'Not on bread alone is man to live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God!' " ⁵ Then the devil took him to the holy city, and made him stand on the summit of the Temple, ⁶ and said to him, "If you are God's son, throw yourself down, for the Scripture says, " 'He will give his angels orders about you, And they will lift you up with their hands So that you may never strike your foot against a stone!' " ⁷ Jesus said to him, "The Scripture also says, 'You shall not try the Lord your God.' " ⁸ Again the devil took him to a very high mountain, and he showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor, ⁹ and said to him, "I will give all this to you, if you will fall on your knees and do homage to me." ¹⁰ Then Jesus said to him, "Begone, Satan! For the Scripture says, 'You must do homage to the Lord your God, and worship him alone!' " ¹¹ Then the devil left him, and angels came and waited on him. ¹² But when Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he retreated to Galilee. ¹³ And he left Nazareth and went and settled in Capernaum, by the sea, in the district of Zebulon and Naphtali, ¹⁴ in fulfilment of what was said by the prophet Isaiah, ¹⁵ "Zebulon's land, and Naphtali's land, Along the road to the sea, across the Jordan, Galilee of the nations! ¹⁶ The people that were living in darkness Have seen a great light, And on those who were living in the land of the shadow of death A light has dawned!" ¹⁷ From that time Jesus began to preach and say, "Repent! for the Kingdom of Heaven is coming!" ¹⁸ As he was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who was afterward called Peter, and his brother, Andrew, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen. ¹⁹ He said to them, "Come and follow me, and I will make you fish for men!" ²⁰ They immediately dropped their nets and went with him. ²¹ And he went on a little farther and saw two other men who were brothers, James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother, John, in the boat with Zebedee, their father, putting their nets in order, and he called them. ²² And they immediately left the boat and their father, and went with him. ²³ Then he went all over Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing any disease or sickness among the people. ²⁴ Word went all through Syria about him, and people brought to him all who were suffering with any kind of disease, or who were in great pain—demoniacs, epileptics, and paralytics—and he cured them. ²⁵ Great crowds followed him about, from Galilee and the Ten Towns and Jerusalem and Judea and from the other side of the Jordan.

²⁸ to carry out what your hand and will had destined should happen.

²⁷ He answered, " 'You must love the Lord your God with your whole heart, your whole soul, your whole strength, and your whole mind,' and 'your neighbor as you do yourself.' "

²⁶ but the Helper, the holy Spirit which the Father will send in my place, will teach you everything and remind you of everything that I have told you.

⁸ Whoever fails to provide for his own relatives, and particularly for members of his own family, has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

⁴ for they are God's agents to do you good. But if you do wrong you may well be afraid, for they do not carry swords for nothing. They are God's servants, to execute his wrath upon wrongdoers.

¹⁹ Do not take your revenge, dear friends, but leave room for God's anger, for the Scripture says, "Vengeance belongs to me; I will pay them back, says the Lord."