Quotes About Accountability

And now you intend to reduce to slavery the men and women of Judah and Jerusalem. But are you not also guilty before the LORD your God?

Now therefore, listen to me and return the captives you took from your kinsmen, for the fierce anger of the LORD is upon you.”

“You must not bring the captives here,” they said, “for you are proposing to bring guilt upon us from the LORD and to add to our sins and our guilt. For our guilt is great, and fierce anger is upon Israel.”

Then Hezekiah questioned the priests and Levites about the heaps,

They have paid out the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have put it into the hands of the supervisors and workers.”

They also asked, “What are the names of the men who are constructing this building?”

We also asked for their names, so that we could write down the names of their leaders for your information.

I weighed out into their hands 650 talents of silver, articles of silver weighing 100 talents, 100 talents of gold,

Everything was verified by number and weight, and the total weight was recorded at that time.

We have behaved corruptly against You and have not kept the commandments, statutes, and ordinances that You gave Your servant Moses.

Do not cover up their iniquity or let their sin be blotted out from Your sight, for they have provoked the builders.

Please restore to them immediately their fields, vineyards, olive groves, and houses, along with the percentage of the money, grain, new wine, and oil that you have been assessing them.”

I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of His house and possession every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.

Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.

You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.

Our kings and leaders and priests and fathers did not obey Your law or listen to Your commandments and warnings that You gave them.

After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.

One day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them.

On another day the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came with them to present himself before Him.

ëCan a mortal be more righteous than God, or a man more pure than his Maker?

Reconsider; do not be unjust. Reconsider, for my righteousness is at stake.

Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.

that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—

If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.