16 Bible Verses about Settling Accounts

"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.

Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.

So the servantfell on his knees, imploring him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you everything.'

So his fellow servant fell down and pleaded with him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you.'

But when that same servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii, and seizing him, he began to choke him, saying, 'Pay what you owe.'

Truly, I say to you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.

I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny."

He said also to the man who had invited him, "When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid.

"Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

"And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

"And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

I tell you, on the day of judgment people will give account for every careless word they speak,

And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

He refused and went and put him in prison until he should pay the debt.

And in anger his master delivered him to the jailers,until he should pay all his debt.

"Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?"