16 Bible Verses about Settling Accounts

The kingdom of heaven is like a king who went over his accounts with his servants.

After a long time the lord of those servants came back to settle with them.

So the servant fell on his face out of respect. He said: 'Lord, give me time to make payment and I will pay everything.'

That servant fell down before him, saying, 'Give me time and I will make payment to you.'

Then that servant met another servant who was in debt to him for one hundred denarii. He took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay your debt now.'

Take it from me; you will stay in jail until you pay the very last penny of your fine.

I tell you that you will not get out until you pay every penny of your fine.

Jesus said to his host: When you give a lunch or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors. They will invite you back, and in this way you will be paid for what you did.

Do not loudly announce it when you give to the poor. The hypocrites do this in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do this to be praised by men. Believe me, they have already been paid in full.

Do not pray like the hypocrites! They want everyone to see them in the houses of worship and on the street corners. I assure you they have been paid in full.

When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward.

I tell you there will be an account in the Judgment Day for every careless word that men say.

He was not able to make payment. So his lord gave orders for him to be sold. His wife, sons, and daughters were all to be sold along with every possession. The money would be used for payment of what he owed.

He would not give him time. He put him into prison till he paid the debt.

His lord was angry and sent him to jail to be punished until he paid back all of his debt.

Or who has first given to him, that it shall be repaid to him again? (Job 41:11)