9 Bible Verses about Personal Responsibility

For each one will bear his own load.

But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

“Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.

“Even if I have truly erred,
My error lodges with me.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself,
And if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

But everyone will die for his own iniquity; each man who eats the sour grapes, his teeth will be set on edge.

The person who sins will die. The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.

Who are you to judge the servant of another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.