18 Bible Verses about Accountability

'And I say to you, that every idle word that men may speak, they shall give for it a reckoning in a day of judgment;

so, then, each of us concerning himself shall give reckoning to God;

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,

and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

and I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and scrolls were opened, and another scroll was opened, which is that of the life, and the dead were judged out of the things written in the scrolls -- according to their works;

the times, indeed, therefore, of the ignorance God having overlooked, doth now command all men everywhere to reform,

And we have known that as many things as the law saith, to those in the law it doth speak, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may come under judgment to God;

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as a custom of certain is, but exhorting, and so much the more as ye see the day coming nigh.

In My saying to the wicked, O wicked one -- thou dost surely die, And thou hast not spoken to warn the wicked from his way, He -- the wicked -- in his iniquity doth die, And his blood from thy hand I require.

The wicked according to the height of his face, inquireth not. 'God is not!' are all his devices.

and higher than they three presidents, of whom Daniel is first, that these satraps may give to them an account, and the king have no loss.

Wherefore hath the wicked despised God? He hath said in his heart, 'It is not required.'

'And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require.

And the watchman, when he seeth the sword coming in, And he hath not blown with a trumpet, And the people hath not been warned, And come in doth a sword, And taketh away of them -- a soul, He in his iniquity is taken away, And his blood from the hand of the watchman I require.

for as many as without law did sin, without law also shall perish, and as many as did sin in law, through law shall be judged,