32 Bible Verses about Responsibility
Most Relevant Verses
For what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not for you to judge those who are inside the church,
for the immediate equipment of God's people for the work of service, for the ultimate building up of the body of Christ,
It is now the third time that I have been ready to come to see you, and I will never ask you for financial support, for it is not your money but you yourselves that I want; for children are not by duty bound to lay up money for their parents, but parents for their children.
He must not be a new convert, or else becoming conceited he may incur the doom the devil met.
So the Twelve called together the whole body of the disciples, and said, "It is not desirable that we should leave off preaching the word of God to wait on tables.
In it I have been made a minister in accordance with the trusteeship God entrusted to me for you, that I might prove among you the universal message of God,
The husband must always give his wife what is due her, and the wife too must do so for her husband.
Many of you, my brothers, should avoid becoming teachers, because you know that we teachers are going to be judged with stricter judgment than other people.
It is the duty of us who are strong to bear with the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.
The man who is dependable in a very small matter is dependable also in a large deal, the man who is dishonest in a very small matter is dishonest also in a large deal.
Make it a rule not to ordain anyone in haste, and not to be responsible for the sins of others; keep yourself pure.
My brothers, if any one of you has wandered away from the truth, and someone brings him back,
As for us apostles, men ought to think of us as ministers of Christ and trustees to handle God's uncovered truths.
for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done.
An unmarried woman or a girl is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, so as to be consecrated in body and spirit, but a married woman is concerned about the affairs of the world, and how she can please her husband.
But the one who does wrong without knowing it will be lightly punished. Much will be demanded from anyone to whom much has been given; yea, people will demand much more from anyone to whom they have entrusted much.
Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.
So, brothers, you must select from your number seven men of good standing, full of the Spirit, and of good practical sense, and we will assign them to this business,
But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they must first learn to practice piety in the treatment of their own families, and to pay the debt they owe their parents or grandparents, for this is acceptable to God.
For if I do it of my own accord, I get my pay; but if I am unwilling to do it, I still am entrusted with trusteeship.
So, since I know what the fear of God can do, I am trying to win men. My inner self is perfectly known to God, and I hope, to your consciences too.
so that the blood of all the prophets that has been shed from the creation of the world may be charged against the men of this age --
From Thematic Bible
Responsibility » Personal
Who are you to criticize another man's servant? It is his own master's business whether he stands or falls, and he will stand, for the Lord has power to make him stand.
for it is by your words that you will be acquitted and by your words that you will be condemned."
The planter and the waterer are one in aim, and yet each of us will get his own pay in accordance with his own work,
Responsibility » Attempts to shirk
So Pilate, since he saw that he was making no headway with them, but that a riot was about to break out instead, took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."
Responsibility » According to privileges » Of ministers, etc
Continue to obey and to be submissive to your leaders, for they are ever watching in defense of your souls, as men who will have to give account of their trust. Treat them in this way, so that they may work with joy and not with grief.
to the one a deadly perfume that leads to death, to the other a living perfume that leads to life.
Many of you, my brothers, should avoid becoming teachers, because you know that we teachers are going to be judged with stricter judgment than other people.
Responsibility » Attempts to shift » Esau
Responsibility » Attempts to shift » Sarah
Responsibility » Attempts to shift » saul
Responsibility » Attempts to shift » Aaron
Responsibility » Attempts to shift » Adam
Responsibility » Attempts to shift » Pontius pilate
So Pilate, since he saw that he was making no headway with them, but that a riot was about to break out instead, took some water and washed his hands before the crowd, and said, "I am not responsible for this man's death; you must see to it yourselves."
Responsibility » Assumed by the jewish leaders for the death of jesus
Responsibility » Attempts to shift » Eve
Topics on Responsibility
Humanities Responsibility To Creation
Hebrews 2:8You have put all things under His feet!" Now when He gave Him authority over everything, He did not leave a single thing that was not put under His authority. But as yet we do not see everything actually under His authority,
Land, As A Divine Responsibility
Matthew 21:33-46"Listen to another story. There was once an owner of an estate who planted a vineyard and built a fence around it, and hewed out a wine-vat in it, and built a tower, and rented it to tenant farmers, and then went abroad.
Responsibility For Blood Shed
Matthew 23:35so that on you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zechariah, Barachiah's son, whom you murdered between the sanctuary and the altar.
Responsibility, Examples Of
Hebrews 11:7By faith Noah, on being divinely warned about things not seen as yet, in reverence prepared an ark for saving his family, and by his faith condemned the world and became possessor of the uprightness that results from faith.
Responsibility, For God's World
Romans 13:3-4For civil authorities are not a terror to the man who does right, but they are to the man who does wrong. Do you want to have no dread of the civil authorities? Then practice doing right and you will be commended for it.
Responsibility, To God
Romans 6:23For the wages paid by sin is death, but the gracious gift of God is eternal life through union with Christ Jesus our Lord.
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