32 Bible Verses about Responsibility

for every one must carry his own pack load.

What have I to do with the judging of outsiders? Must not you judge those who are within the church, while God judges outsiders?

in order to equip the saints for the work of serving, for the building up of the Body of Christ??13 till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to the maturity of manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

And now for the third time I am preparing to visit you. I will not be a burden to you, for I am not seeking yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

He must not be a recent convert, lest he be blinded with pride, and incur the doom of the devil.

Then the Twelve called the general body of the disciples together, and said to them. "It is not fitting for us to leave off preaching the Word of God, and minister at tables.

It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message;

All the people answered, "His blood be upon us and upon our children."

Let the husband give his wife her due, and likewise the wife her husband. The wife is not mistress of her own person,

Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.

Now we who are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to seek our own pleasure.

"The man who is faithful in a very little is faithful also in much, and he who is unjust in a very little, is unjust also as much.

Never ordain any one hastily, nor take part in the wrong-doing of others. Keep yourself pure.

My brothers, if any one of you strays from the truth, and some one brings him back,

Let any man look upon us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the secret truths of God.

because you know that whatever good any man does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be slave or free man.

Again, the woman who is widow, or the maid, is anxious about the Lord's business, how she may be pure in body and in mind; but the married woman is anxious about worldly affairs, how she may please her husband.

"but he who did not know, but did things worthy of a beating, will receive few lashes. To whom much has been given, from him much will be required, and to whom much is entrusted, of him they will ask the more.

Obey your leaders and submit to them; for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who must give account; that they may do thus with joy and not with lamentation, for this would be unprofitable to you.

"So, brothers, find from among your own number seven men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom, and we will appoint them over this business.

but if any widow has children or grandchildren, let these learn to show their piety first toward their own household, and to make some return to their parents, for that is pleasing in God's sight.

For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.

So, because I know the fear of God, I "persuade men." What I am is manifest to God, and I hope manifest also to your conscience.

"so that the blood of all the prophets which was shed from the foundation of the world may be required from this generation,