18 Bible Verses about Accountability
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But I say unto you, That, every useless expression that men shall utter, they shall render, concerning it, an account, in a day of judgment;
Not, many teachers, become ye, my brethren, knowing that, a severer sentence, shall ye receive;
Whereas, he who had not come to know, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And, every one to whom was given much, much, shall be sought from him; and, he to whom they committed much, for more than common, will they ask him.
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, out of the things written in the books, according to their works.
The times of ignorance, therefore, overlooking, God, as things now are, is charging all men everywhere to repent,
Now we know that, whatsoever things the law saith, to them who are within the law, it speaketh, in order that, every mouth, may be stopped and all the world come, under penal sentence, unto God.
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, according to the custom of some, but exhorting, and by so much the more as this, by as much as ye behold, the day, drawing near.
When I say to the lawless man O lawless man thou shalt surely die, And thou have not spoken to warn the lawless man from his way He the lawless man for his iniquity shall die, But his blood- at thy hand- will I demand.
The lawless one, in the loftiness of his countenance, will not enquire, God is not in any of his plots:
and, over these, three confidential ministers, of whom, Daniel, was first, - that, to them, these satraps should render an account, and, the king, not be suffering loss.
Wherefore hath the lawless one blasphemed God? He hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it !
And when a righteous man hath turned from his righteousness, and committed perversity, and I have suffered a stumbling- block to be laid before him he shall die, - though thou hast not warned him, in his sin I shall he die, neither shall be remembered his righteous deeds which he hath done, but his blood, at thy hand will I require;
But as for the watchman-When he seeth the sword coming. And hath not blown with the horn. And the people, have not been warned, And the sword, hath come and taken away from among them any person he, for his iniquity, hath been taken away, But his blood at the hand of the watchman will I require.
For, as many as without law sinned, without law, also shall perish, and, as many as within law sinned, through law, shall be judged;
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Accountability » Accountability connected with stewardship
But I say unto you, That, every useless expression that men shall utter, they shall render, concerning it, an account, in a day of judgment;
For this cause, hath the kingdom of the heavens become like unto a man, a king, who wished to settle an account with his servants;
For this cause, lo! I, send unto you, prophets and wise men and scribes, - some from among them, ye will slay and crucify, And some from among them ye will - scourge in your synagogues, and pursue from city to city:
But God said unto him - Simple one! on this very night, they are asking, thy soul, from thee; The things, then, which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?
Accountability » Everyone giving account of themselves to God
But I say unto you, That, every useless expression that men shall utter, they shall render, concerning it, an account, in a day of judgment; For, by thy words, shalt thou be, justified, and, by thy words, shalt thou be condemned.
But, thou, why dost thou judge thy brother? Aye! and thou, why dost thou despise thy brother? For, all of us, shall present ourselves unto the judgment seat of God; For it is written - Living am, I, saith the Lord, unto me, shall bow every knee, and, every tongue, shall openly confess unto God. Hence, then, each one of us, of himself shall give account unto God.
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Isaiah 7:15Curds and honey, shall he eat, by the time that he knoweth to refuse the bad and choose the good;