18 Bible Verses about Accountability

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

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

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds,

Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy.

But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,

Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.

not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

In the pride of his face the wicked does not seek him; all his thoughts are, "There is no God."

and over them three presidents, of whom Daniel was one, to whom these satraps should give account, so that the king might suffer no loss.

Why does the wicked renounce God and say in his heart, "You will not call to account"?

Again, if a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits injustice, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds that 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, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any one of them, that person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at 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.