16 Bible Verses about Settling Accounts

That is why the Realm of heaven may be compared to a king who resolved to settle accounts with his servants.

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

So the servant fell down and prayed him, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you it all.'

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

But as that servant went away, he met one of his fellow-servants who owed him twenty pounds, and seizing him by the throat he said, 'Pay your debt!'

truly I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last halfpenny of your debt.

I tell you, you will never get out till you pay the last farthing of your debt."

He also said to his host, "When you give a dinner or supper, do not ask your friends or your brothers or your relatives or your rich neighbours, in case they invite you back again and you get repaid.

When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street-corners, so as to be seen by men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

I tell you, men will have to account on the day of judgment for every light word they utter;

as he was unable to pay, his master ordered him to be sold, along with his wife and children and all he had, in payment of the sum.

But he refused; he went and had him thrown into prison, till he should pay the debt.

And in hot anger his master handed him over to the torturers, till he should pay him all the debt.

Who has first given to him and has to be repaid?