18 Bible Verses about Accountability

And I say unto you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

So then each one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Be not many of you teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, And look well to thy herds:

Here, moreover, it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

but he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few'stripes . And to whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required: and to whom they commit much, of him will they ask the more.

And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne; and books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent:

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it speaketh to them that are under the law; that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God:

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day drawing nigh.

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die, and thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at thy hand.

The wicked, in the pride of his countenance,'saith , He will not require it . All his thoughts are, There is no God.

and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one; that these satraps might give account unto them, and that the king should have no damage.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God, And say in his heart, Thou wilt not require it ?

Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, and the sword come, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;