16 Bible Verses about Settling Accounts

And therefore the Kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.

After a long time the master of those servants returned, and settled accounts with them.

Thereupon the servant threw himself down on the ground before him and said 'Have patience with me, and I will pay you all.'

Thereupon his fellow-servant threw himself on the ground and begged for mercy. 'Have patience with me,' he said, 'and I will pay you.'

But, on going out, that same servant came upon one of his fellow-servants who owed him ten pounds. Seizing him by the throat, he said 'Pay what you owe me.'

I tell you, you will not come out until you have paid the last penny.

You will not, I tell you, come out until you have paid the very last farthing."

Then Jesus went on to say to the man who had invited him: "When you give a breakfast or a dinner, do not ask your friends, or your brothers, or your relations, or rich neighbors, for fear that they should invite you in return, and so you should be repaid.

Therefore, when you do acts of charity, do not have a trumpet blown in front of you, as hypocrites do in the Synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. There, I tell you, is their reward!

And, when you pray, you are not to behave as hypocrites do. They like to pray standing in the Synagogues and at the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. There, I tell you, is their reward!

And, when you fast, do not put on gloomy looks, as hypocrites do who disfigure their faces that they may be seen by men to be fasting. That, I tell you, is their reward!

I tell you that for every careless thing that men say, they must answer on the 'Day of Judgment.'

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

But the other would not, but went and put him in prison till he should pay his debt.

Then his master, in anger, handed him over to the jailers, until he should pay the whole of his debt.

Or who has first given to him, so that he may claim a recompense?'