Quotes About Accountability

If a man borrows an animal from his neighbor and it is injured or dies while its owner is not present, he must make full restitution.

If the owner was present, no restitution is required. If the animal was rented, the fee covers the loss.

If you do mistreat them, and they cry out to Me in distress, I will surely hear their cry.

Do not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and twists the words of the righteous.

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go down at once, for your people, whom you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves.

“What did this people do to you,” Moses asked Aaron, “that you have led them into so great a sin?”

“Do not be enraged, my lord,” Aaron replied. “You yourself know that the people are intent on evil.

Moses saw that the people were out of control, for Aaron had let them run wild and become a laughingstock to their enemies.

The LORD replied to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot out of My book.

Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”

When a leader sins unintentionally and does what is prohibited by any of the commandments of the LORD his God, he incurs guilt.

“If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.

If someone incurs guilt in one of these ways, he must confess the sin he has committed,

If someone sins and violates any of the LORDís commandments even though he was unaware, he is guilty and shall bear his punishment.

It is a guilt offering; he was certainly guilty before the LORD.”

“If someone sins and acts unfaithfully against the LORD by deceiving his neighbor in regard to a deposit or security entrusted to him or stolen, or if he extorts his neighbor

or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—

once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,

or anything else about which he has sworn falsely. He must make restitution in full, add a fifth of the value, and pay it to the owner on the day he acknowledges his guilt.

Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaronís remaining sons, and asked,

You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

You must not use dishonest measures of length, weight, or volume.

And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,

And you are to tell the Israelites, ëIf anyone curses his God, he shall bear the consequences of his sin.