'Accounts' in the Bible

For this reason, the kingdom of heaven can be compared to a king who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.

When he began to settle accounts, one who owed 10,000 talents was brought before him.

“After a long time the master of those slaves came and settled accounts with them.

like the accounts passed on to us by those who were eyewitnesses and servants of the word from the beginning.

so that you may know the exact truth about the things you have been taught [that is, the history and doctrine of the faith].

Now when Herod saw Jesus he was very glad, having for a long time had a desire to see him, for he had had accounts of him, and was hoping to see some wonders done by him.

But Ananias said, Lord, I have had accounts of this man from a number of people, how much evil he has done to your saints at Jerusalem:

This accounts for the fact that if during her husband's life she lives with another man, she will be stigmatized as an adulteress; but that if her husband is dead she is no longer under the old prohibition, and even though she marries again, she is not an adulteress.

Gaius, with whom I am living, whose house is open to all the church, sends his love, so does Erastus, the manager of the accounts of the town, and Quartus, the brother.