11 Bible Verses about Accountability

"I tell you that for every careless word that men speak they shall give account on the day of judgment.

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

Do not become many teachers, my brothers, because you know well that we teachers shall be judged by a severer standard than others.

Now it is required of stewards, that a man be found faithful.

"but he who did not know, but did things worthy of a beating, will receive few lashes. To whom much has been given, from him much will be required, and to whom much is entrusted, of him they will ask the more.

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne; and books were opened, and another book??he Book of Life??as opened; and the dead were judged according to their deeds, by what was written in the books.

"The times of ignorance God overlooked, but he now commands all men that they should all, everywhere, repent;

Now we know that whatever the Law says, it speaks to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be shut, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the custom of some, but exhorting one another; all the more as you behold the Day drawing near.

For all who have sinned without law will also perish without law; and all who have sinned under law will be judged by law.