Bible Verses about “accountability”
The Bible contains 23 verses about accountability across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.”
“So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.”
“Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that [is] unprofitable for you.”
“‹But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.›”
“Two [are] better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.”
“Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.”
“¶ Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.”
“¶ Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.”
“For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him [that is] alone when he falleth; for [he hath] not another to help him up.”
“And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.”
“¶ Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.”
“Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm [alone]?”
“‹Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.›”
“‹For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.›”
“The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.”
“For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things [done] in [his] body, according to that he hath done, whether [it be] good or bad.”
“For every man shall bear his own burden.”
“But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.”
“For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”
“‹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 that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not› [himself], ‹neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many› [stripes].”
“I the LORD search the heart, [I] try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, [and] according to the fruit of his doings.”
“Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”