18 Bible Verses about Accountability

But I say to you that every idle word, whatever men may speak, they shall give account of it in the day of judgment.

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

My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

Know well the face of your flocks; set your heart on your herds.

And the rest, it is sought among stewards that one be found faithful.

But he not knowing, and doing things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For to whomever much is given, of him much shall be required. And to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

And I saw the dead, the small and the great, stand before God. And 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.

Truly, then, God overlooking the times of ignorance, now He strictly commands all men everywhere to repent,

But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment 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 to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked one shall die in his iniquity; but I will require his blood at your hand.

Through the pride of his face the wicked will not seek Him; There is no God in all his schemes.

And over them were three presidents (Daniel was one of them), so that these satraps might give account to them, and the king should have no loss.

Why do the wicked condemn God? He has said in his heart, You will not judge.

And when the righteous turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and when I lay a stumbling block 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 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; if the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity. But I will require his blood at the watchman's hand.

For as many as sinned without Law will also perish without Law. And as many as have sinned within Law shall be judged through Law.