Quotes About Accountability

TEKEL means that you have been weighed on the scales and found deficient.

and over them three administrators, including Daniel, to whom these satraps were accountable so that the king would not suffer loss.

Thus the administrators and satraps sought a charge against Daniel concerning the kingdom, but they could find no charge or corruption, because he was trustworthy, and no negligence or corruption was found in him.

We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, and fathers, and to all the people of the land.

O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.

And it shall be like people, like priest. I will punish both of them for their ways and repay them for their deeds.

The princes of Judah are like those who move boundary stones; I will pour out My fury upon them like water.

But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds are all around them; they are before My face.

The LORD also brings a charge against Judah. He will punish Jacob according to his ways and repay him according to his deeds.

Ephraim has provoked bitter anger, so his Lord will leave his bloodguilt upon him and repay him for his contempt.

The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.

Now what do you have against Me, O Tyre, Sidon, and all the regions of Philistia? Are you rendering against Me a recompense? If you retaliate against Me, I will swiftly and speedily return your recompense upon your heads.

Behold, I will rouse them from the places to which you sold them; I will return your recompense upon your heads.

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.

“Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

“Amos, what do you see?” asked the LORD. “A plumb line,” I replied. “Behold,” said the Lord, “I am setting a plumb line among My people Israel; I will no longer spare them:

The LORD has sworn by the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget any of their deeds.

For the Day of the LORD is near for all the nations. As you have done, it will be done to you; your recompense will return upon your own head.

“Come!” said the sailors to one another. “Let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity that is upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.

Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.