16 Bible Verses about Settling Accounts

For this cause, hath the kingdom of the heavens become like unto a man, a king, who wished to settle an account with his servants;

And, after a long time, cometh the lord of those servants, and reckoneth with them.

The servant therefore, falling down, began to do homage unto him, saying - Have patience with me, and, all, will I pay thee.

His fellow servant, therefore, falling down, began beseeching him, saying, Have patience with me! And I will pay thee.

But that servant, going out, found one of his fellow-servants, who owed him, a hundred denaries, and, laying hold of him, he began seizing him by the throat, saying, Pay! if anything thou owest.

Verily, I say unto thee, In nowise, mayest thou come out from thence, until thou pay the last halfpenny.

I tell thee - In nowise shalt thou come out from thence, until, even the last fraction, thou pay!

Moreover he went on to say, unto him also who had invited him, - Whensoever thou mayest be making a dinner or a supper, do not call thy friends, or thy brothers, or thy kinsfolk, or rich neighbours, - lest once, they also, invite thee in return, and it become a recompense unto thee.

When, therefore, thou mayest be doing an alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, just as, the hypocrites, do in the synagogues and in the streets - that they may be glorified by men, - Verily, I say unto you, they are getting back their reward.

And, when ye may be praying, ye shall not be as the hypocrites, because they love, in the synagogues, and at the corners of the broad ways, to take their stand and pray, that they may shine before men; Verily, I say unto you, they are getting back their reward.

And, when ye may he fasting, become not ye, as the hypocrites, of sullen countenance, - for they darken their looks, that they may appear, unto men, to be fasting: Verily, I say unto you, they are getting back their reward.

But I say unto you, That, every useless expression that men shall utter, they shall render, concerning it, an account, in a day of judgment;

and, he, not having, wherewith to pay, the master ordered him to be sold, and the wife, and the children, and whatsoever he had, - and payment to be made.

He, however, would not, but went away and cast him into prison, - until he should pay what was owing.

And, provoked to anger, his master delivered him up to the torturers, until he should pay all that was owing.

Or who hath first given unto him, and it shall be recompensed to him again?