'Account' in the Bible

And to Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten of the tree of which I commanded thee saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed be the ground on thy account; with toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And Jehovah smelled the sweet odour. And Jehovah said in his heart, I will no more henceforth curse the ground on account of Man, for the thought of Man's heart is evil from his youth; and I will no more smite every living thing, as I have done.

Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister, that it may be well with me on thy account, and my soul may live because of thee.

And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels.

Perhaps there may want five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city on account of the five? And he said, If I shall find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.

And the men of the place asked about his wife. And he said, She is my sister; for he feared to say, my wife, saying to himself, Lest the men of the place slay me on account of Rebecca because she was fair in countenance.

Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is certainly thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? and Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die on account of her.

And Jehovah said, I have seen assuredly the affliction of my people who are in Egypt, and their cry have I heard on account of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows.

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart; thou shalt earnestly rebuke thy neighbour, lest thou bear sin on account of him.

Also Jehovah was angry with me on your account, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither.

But Jehovah was wroth with me on your account, and did not hear me; and Jehovah said to me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter!

And Jehovah was angry with me on your account, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not enter in to that good land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee for an inheritance;

When the people of Israel cried to the LORD on account of the Mid'ianites,

and went up and encamped at Kir'iath-je'arim in Judah. On this account that place is called Ma'haneh-dan to this day; behold, it is west of Kir'iath-je'arim.

would ye wait on that account till they were grown? Would ye stay on that account from having husbands? No, my daughters, for I am in much more bitterness than you; for the hand of Jehovah is gone out against me.

And this is the account of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Jehovah, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of precious gold: none were of silver, which was not of the least account in the days of Solomon.

And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the hallowed things that is brought into the house of Jehovah, the money of every one that passes the account, the money at which every man is valued, and all the money that comes into any man's heart to bring into the house of Jehovah,

And the covered way of the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry outside, he turned from the house of Jehovah on account of the king of Assyria.

When ye were a few men in number, Of small account, and strangers in it.

And God was displeased on account of this thing, and he smote Israel.

Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but he did not finish; and there fell wrath for it upon Israel; and the number was not put in the account of the chronicles of king David.

And Solomon numbered all the strangers that were in the land of Israel, after the account that David his father had taken of them, and there were found a hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred.

And all king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of precious gold: silver was not of the least account in the days of Solomon.

And Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

When they were a few men in number, of small account, and strangers in it.

And they moved him to wrath at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses on their account;

I hate them with perfect hatred; I account them mine enemies.

Jehovah hath wrought everything on his own account, yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

I say, Keep the king's commandment, and that on account of the oath of God.

Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for what account is to be made of him?

And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account.

and over these, three presidents of whom Daniel was one to whom these satraps should render account, and that the king should suffer no loss.

I will also gather all the nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and I will enter into judgment with them there on account of my people and mine inheritance, Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations: and they have parted my land;

Blessed they who are persecuted on account of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of the heavens.

and ye shall be hated of all on account of my name. But he that has endured to the end, he shall be saved.

But I say unto you, that every idle word which men shall say, they shall render an account of it in judgment-day:

but has no root in himself, but is for a time only; and when tribulation or persecution happens on account of the word, he is immediately offended.

For Herod had seized John, and had bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother.

And the king was grieved; but on account of the oaths, and those lying at table with him, he commanded it to be given.

But he answering said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?

and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

and said, On account of this a man shall leave father and mother, and shall be united to his wife, and the two shall be one flesh?

and if those days had not been cut short, no flesh had been saved; but on account of the elect those days shall be cut short.

and, not being able to get near to him on account of the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was, and having dug it up they let down the couch on which the paralytic lay.

And he said to them, The sabbath was made on account of man, not man on account of the sabbath;

And he spoke to his disciples, in order that a little ship should wait upon him on account of the crowd, that they might not press upon him.

and they have no root in themselves, but are for a time: then, tribulation arising, or persecution on account of the word, immediately they are offended.

And Herod the king heard of him (for his name had become public), and said, John the baptist is risen from among the dead, and on this account works of power are wrought by him.

For the same Herod had sent and seized John, and had bound him in prison on account of Herodias, the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.

And the king, while made very sorry, on account of the oaths and those lying at table with him would not break his word with her.

And ye will be hated of all on account of my name; but he that has endured to the end, he shall be saved.

and if the Lord had not cut short those days, no flesh should have been saved; but on account of the elect whom he has chosen, he has cut short those days.

on account of the bowels of mercy of our God; wherein the dayspring from on high has visited us,

And not finding what way to bring him in, on account of the crowd, going up on the housetop they let him down through the tiles, with his little couch, into the midst before Jesus.

And another said, I have married a wife, and on this account I cannot come.

But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering you up to synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors on account of my name;

And more a great deal believed on account of his word;

and they said to the woman, It is no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, he also who eats me shall live also on account of me.

However, no one spoke openly concerning him on account of their fear of the Jews.

There was a division therefore in the crowd on account of him.

On this account his parents said, He is of age: ask him.

On this account the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it again.

There was a division again among the Jews on account of these words;

And I rejoice on your account that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. But let us go to him.

but I knew that thou always hearest me; but on account of the crowd who stand around I have said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

because many of the Jews went away on his account and believed on Jesus.

Now is my soul troubled, and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. But on account of this have I come to this hour.

Jesus answered and said, Not on my account has this voice come, but on yours.

On this account they could not believe, because Esaias said again,

Although indeed from among the rulers also many believed on him, but on account of the Pharisees did not confess him, that they might not be put out of the synagogue:

For he knew him that delivered him up: on account of this he said, Ye are not all clean.

If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you.

But they will do all these things to you on account of my name, because they have not known him that sent me.

All things that the Father has are mine; on account of this I have said that he receives of mine and shall announce it to you.

A woman, when she gives birth to a child, has grief because her hour has come; but when the child is born, she no longer remembers the trouble, on account of the joy that a man has been born into the world.

Jesus answered, Thou hadst no authority whatever against me if it were not given to thee from above. On this account he that has delivered me up to thee has the greater sin.

There therefore, on account of the preparation of the Jews, because the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.

being distressed on account of their teaching the people and preaching by Jesus the resurrection from among the dead;

But they, having further threatened them, let them go, finding no way how they might punish them, on account of the people, because all glorified God for what had taken place;

Him would Paul have go forth with him, and took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews who were in those places, for they all knew his father that he was a Greek.

But I make no account of my life as dear to myself, so that I finish my course, and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the glad tidings of the grace of God.

And different persons cried some different thing in the crowd. But he, not being able to know the certainty on account of the uproar, commanded him to be brought into the fortress.

But when he got upon the stairs it was so that he was borne by the soldiers on account of the violence of the crowd.

On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.

For this cause therefore I have called you to me to see and to speak to you; for on account of the hope of Israel I have this chain about me.

For the name of God is blasphemed on your account among the nations, according as it is written.

Now it was not written on his account alone that it was reckoned to him,

(for until law sin was in the world; but sin is not put to account when there is no law;

I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

but if Christ be in you, the body is dead on account of sin, but the Spirit life on account of righteousness.

But if the Spirit of him that has raised up Jesus from among the dead dwell in you, he that has raised up Christ from among the dead shall quicken your mortal bodies also on account of his Spirit which dwells in you.

As regards the glad tidings, they are enemies on your account; but as regards election, beloved on account of the fathers.

Wherefore it is necessary to be subject, not only on account of wrath, but also on account of conscience.

For on this account ye pay tribute also; for they are God's officers, attending continually on this very thing.

So then each of us shall give an account concerning himself to God.

For if on account of meat thy brother is grieved, thou walkest no longer according to love. Destroy not him with thy meat for whom Christ has died.

Let a man so account of us as servants of Christ, and stewards of the mysteries of God.