18 Bible Verses about Accountability

But I tell you that every careless word that people speak, they shall give an accounting for it in the day of judgment.

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

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.

Know well the condition of your flocks,
And pay attention to your herds;

In this case, moreover, it is required of stewards that one be found trustworthy.

but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all 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 from the things which were written in the books, according to their deeds.

Therefore having overlooked the times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people everywhere should repent,

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law, so that every mouth may be closed and all the world may become accountable to God;

not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

When I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand.

The wicked, in the haughtiness of his countenance, does not seek Him.
All his thoughts are, “There is no God.”

and over them three commissioners (of whom Daniel was one), that these satraps might be accountable to them, and that the king might not suffer loss.

Why has the wicked spurned God?
He has said to himself, “You will not require it.”

Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet and the people are not warned, and a sword comes and takes a person from them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require from the watchman’s hand.’

For all who have sinned without the Law will also perish without the Law, and all who have sinned under the Law will be judged by the Law;