Quotes About Accountability

Who has appointed His way for Him, or told Him, ëYou have done wrongí?

Would you really annul My justice? Would you condemn Me to justify yourself?

Look on every proud man and humble him; trample the wicked where they stand.

O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation each day.

He has dug a hole and hollowed it out; he has fallen into a pit of his own making.

His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.

He judges the world with justice; He governs the people with equity.

The LORD is known by the justice He brings; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. Higgaion Selah

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.

So the LORD has repaid me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in His sight.

Repay them according to their deeds and for their works of evil. Repay them for what their hands have done; bring back on them what they deserve.

Since they show no regard for the works of the LORD or what His hands have done, He will tear them down and never rebuild them.

He summons the heavens above, and the earth, that He may judge His people:

To the wicked, however, God says, “What right have you to recite My statutes and to bear My covenant on your lips?

You have done these things, and I kept silent; you thought I was just like you. But now I rebuke you and accuse you to your face.

Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Against You, You only, have I sinned and done what is evil in Your sight, so that You may be proved right when You speak and blameless when You judge.

For the choirmaster. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Miktam of David. Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?

and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.

They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.