31 Bible Verses about Responsibility

For everyone will have to bear his own load of responsibility.

Outsiders it is no business of mine to judge. No, you must judge those who are inside the church, for yourselves;

for the equipment of the saints, for the business of the ministry, for the upbuilding of the Body of Christ,

Here am I all ready to pay you my third visit. And I will not be a burden to you; I want yourselves and not your money. Children have not to put money by for their parents; that is what parents do for their children.

he must not be a new convert, in case he gets conceited and incurs the doom passed on the devil;

So the twelve summoned the main body of the disciples and said: "It is not desirable that we should drop preaching the word of God and attend to meals.

for I am a minister of the church by the divine commission which has been granted me in your interests, to make a full presentation of God's message ??26 of that open secret which, though concealed from ages and generations of old, has now been disclosed to the saints of God.

To this all the people replied, "His blood be on us and on our children!"

The husband must give the wife her conjugal dues, and the wife in the same way must give her husband his;

My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness.

We who are strong ought to bear the burdens that the weak make for themselves and us. We are not to please ourselves.

He who is faithful with a trifle is also faithful with a large trust, and he who is dishonest with a trifle is also dishonest with a large trust.

Never be in a hurry to ordain a presbyter; do not make yourself responsible for the sins of another man ??keep your own life pure.

My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back,

This is how you are to look upon us, as servants of Christ and stewards of God's secret truths.

Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

whereas he who was ignorant and did what deserves a beating, will receive few lashes. He who has much given him will have much required from him, and he who has much entrusted to him will have all the more demanded of him.

Obey your leaders, submit to them; for they are alive to the interests of your souls, as men who will have to account for their trust. Let their work be a joy to them and not a grief ??which would be a loss to yourselves.

Brothers, look out seven of your own number, men of good reputation who are full of the Spirit and of wisdom. We will appoint them to this duty,

(When a widow has children or grandchildren, they must learn that the first duty of religion is to their own household, and that they should make some return to those who have brought them up. In God's sight this is an acceptable thing.)

I get a reward if I do it of my own accord, whereas to do it otherwise is no more than for a steward to discharge his trust.

If I 'appeal to the interests of men,' then, it is with the fear of the Lord before my mind. What I am is plain to God without disguise, plain also, I trust, to your own conscience.

it was that the blood of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the world might be charged upon this generation,