Bible Verses about “age of accountability”
The Bible contains 22 verses about age of accountability across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.”
“To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.”
“So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.”
“for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;”
“But Jesus said, "Allow the little children, and don't forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these."”
“and said, "Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.”
“The soul who sins, he 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 on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.”
“Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.”
“Even a child makes himself known by his doings, whether his work is pure, and whether it is right.”
“The wicked go astray from the womb. They are wayward as soon as they are born, speaking lies.”
“But now he is dead, why should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me."”
“When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast,”
“It happened after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, both listening to them, and asking them questions.”
“Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.”
“and when they had fulfilled the days, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. Joseph and his mother didn't know it,”
“but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day's journey, and they looked for him among their relatives and acquaintances.”
“When they didn't find him, they returned to Jerusalem, looking for him.”
“Everyone who passes over to those who are numbered, from twenty years old and upward, shall give the offering to Yahweh.”
“For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.”
“surely you shall not come into the land, concerning which I swore that I would make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.”
“Tell them, 'As I live, says Yahweh, surely as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:”
“your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all who were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me,”