16 Bible Verses about Settling Accounts

Therefore is the kingdom of heaven likened unto a certain King, which would take accounts of his servants.

After a long season, the Lord of those servants came, and reckoned with them.

The servant fell down and besought him saying, 'Sir, give me respite, and I will pay it every whit.'

And his fellow fell down, and besought him, saying, 'Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.'

And the said servant went out and found one of his fellows, which owed him a hundred pence. And laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, 'Pay me that thou owest.'

I say unto ye verily, Thou shalt not come out thence, till thou have paid the utmost farthing.

I tell thee thou departest not thence, till thou have made good the utmost mite.

Then said he also to him that had desired him to dinner, "When thou makest a dinner, or a supper: call not thy friends, nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor yet rich neighbours: lest they bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.

Whensoever therefore thou givest thine alms, thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blown before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues, and in the streets, for to be praised of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues, and in the corners of the streets, because they would be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

"Moreover, when ye fast, be not sad as the hypocrites are: for they disfigure their faces, that they might be seen of men how they fast. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.

But I say unto you, that of every idle word, that men shall have spoken, they shall give accounts at the day of judgment.

Whom, because he had nought to pay, his Master commanded him to be sold: and his wife, and his children, and all that he had; and payment to be made.

And he would not, but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

And his Lord was wroth, and delivered him to the jailers, till he should pay all that was due to him.

Other who hath given unto him first, that he might be recompensed again?