16 Bible Verses about Settling Accounts

For this reason the Kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king, who resolved to settle accounts with his slaves.

Long afterward, their master came back and settled accounts with them.

So the slave threw himself down before him and implored him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you all of it.'

So his fellow-slave threw himself down before him, and begged him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

But when the slave went out he met a fellow-slave of his who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

I tell you, you will never get out again until you have paid the last penny!

I tell you, you will never get out again until you have paid the last cent!"

And he said to the man who had invited him, "When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbors, for then they will invite you in return and you will be repaid.

So when you are going to give to charity, do not blow a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and the streets, to make people praise them. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get!

"When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the squares, to let people see them. I tell you, that is the only reward they will get!

"When you fast, do not put on a gloomy look, like the hypocrites, for they neglect their personal appearance to let people see that they are fasting. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get.

But I tell you, for every careless word that men utter they will have to answer on the Day of Judgment.

And as he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all he had, in payment of the debt.

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

So his master in his anger handed him over to the jailers, until he should pay all he owed him.

"Or who has advanced anything to him, for which he will have to be repaid?"