18 Bible Verses about Accountability

But I say unto you, that of every idle word, that men shall have spoken, they shall give accounts at the day of judgment.

So shall every one of us give accounts of himself to God.

My brethren, be not every man a master; Remembering how that we shall receive the more damnation.

See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks.

Furthermore it is required of the stewards that they be found faithful.

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

And I saw the dead, both great and small, stand before God: And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged of those things which were written in the books according to their deeds.

And the time of this ignorance God regarded not: but now he biddeth all men everywhere to repent,

Yea and we know that whatsoever the law saith, he saith it to them which are under the law: That all mouths may be stopped, and all the world be subdued to God,

and let us not forsake the fellowship that we have among ourselves, as the manner of some is: but let us exhort one another, and that so much the more, because ye see that the day draweth nigh.

If I say unto the wicked: thou wicked, thou shalt surely die: and thou givest him not warning, that he may beware of his ungodly way: then shall the wicked die in his own sin, but his blood will I require of thy hand.

The ungodly is so proud and full of indignation, that he careth not for God: neither is God in all his thoughts.

Above these he set three princes - of whom Daniel was one - that the lords might give accounts unto them, and the king to be undiseased.

Wherefore should the wicked blaspheme God, while he doth say in his heart, "Tush, thou God careth not for it?"

"Now if a righteous man go from his righteousness, and do the thing that is evil: I will lay a stumbling block before him, and he shall die, because thou hast not given him warning - Yea, die shall he in his own sin, so that the virtue which he did before shall not be thought upon, but his blood will I require of thine hand.

Again, if the watchman see the sword come, and show it not with the trumpet, so that the people is not warned: if the sword come then, and take any man from among them: the same shall be taken away in his own sin, but his blood will I require of the watchman's hand.'

But whosoever hath sinned without law, shall perish without law. And as many as have sinned under the law, shall be judged by the law.