Quotes About Accountability

“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.

As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ëThis is the burden of the LORD,í I will punish that man and his household.

ëBut to your own harm, you have not listened to Me,í declares the LORD, ëso you have provoked Me to anger with the works of your hands.í

“In those days, it will no longer be said: ëThe fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.í

Instead, each will die for his own iniquity. If anyone eats the sour grapes, his own teeth will be set on edge.

But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at liberty to go wherever they wanted, and you have again forced them to be your slaves.

When they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”

When Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him heard of all the crimes that Ishmael son of Nethaniah had committed,

To this day they have not humbled themselves or shown reverence, nor have they followed My instruction or the statutes that I set before you and your fathers.

For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.

“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

to deny a man justice before the Most High,

Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?

You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

If I say to the wicked man, ëYou will surely die,í but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.

Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.

For I have assigned to you 390 days, according to the number of years of their iniquity. So you shall bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

But she has rebelled against My ordinances more wickedly than the nations, and against My statutes worse than the countries around her. For her people have rejected My ordinances and have not walked in My statutes.í

The end is now upon you, and I will unleash My anger against you. I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

Very soon I will pour out My wrath upon you and vent My anger against you; I will judge you according to your ways and repay you for all your abominations.

I will not look on you with pity, nor will I spare you, but I will punish you for your ways and for the abominations among you. Then you will know that it is I, the LORD, who strikes the blow.

But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”

But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”

Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ëWhere is the whitewash with which you covered it?í