18 Bible Verses about Accountability

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.

Wherefore doth the wicked contemn God? he hath said in his heart, Thou wilt not require it.

Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand.

For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;