18 Bible Verses about Accountability

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

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

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Know well the state of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds:

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

but he who didn't know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whoever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. 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 commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, 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 you see the Day approaching.

When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don't speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

The wicked, in the pride of his face, has no room in his thoughts for God.

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

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn't blow the trumpet, and the people aren't warned, and the sword comes, 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 will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.