18 Bible Verses about Accountability

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgment.

Be diligent to know the state of your flocks, and look well to your herds.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

And the times of this ignorance God overlooked; but now commands all men everywhere to repent:

Now we know that whatsoever things the law says, it says to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as you see the day approaching.

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

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in any of his thoughts.

And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the satraps might give accounts unto them, and the king should suffer no loss.

Why does the wicked renounce God? he has said in his heart, You will not require it.

Again, When a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and blows not the trumpet, and the people are not warned; if the sword comes, and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;