16 Bible Verses about Settling Accounts

Therefore, the Kingdom of Heaven was likened to a king who wished to make a reckoning with his servants.

And, after a long time, the lord of those servants comes, and makes a reckoning with them.

The servant, falling down, therefore, was bowing to him, saying, 'Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay you all.'

His fellow-servant, falling down, therefore, was entreating him, saying, Have patience with me, and I will pay you!

But, going forth, that servant found one of his fellow-servants, who was owing him a hundred denaries; and, having laid hold of him, he was choking him, saying, 'Pay, if you are owing anything!'

Verily I say to you, in no wise shall you come out thence, till you pay the last farthing.

I tell you, you will in no wise come out thence, till you shall pay even the last mite."

And He said to him also who had invited him, "When you make a dinner or a supper, call not your friends, nor your brethren, nor your kindred, nor your rich neighbors; lest they also invite you in return, and a recompense be made you;

When, therefore, you are doing alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say to you, they receive their reward.

"And, when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray, standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: verily I say to you, they have their reward.

"And, when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear to men to fast. Verily I say to you, they receive their reward.

And I say to you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account concerning it in the day of judgment;

but, as he had nothing to pay, his lord commanded that he be sold, and his wife, and his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.

And he would not; but, going away, he cast him into prison, till he should pay what was due.

And, being angry, his lord delivered him to the tormentors, until he should pay all the debt.

Or who first gave to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?