Quotes About Accountability

For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

How can you say to your brother, ëLet me take the speck out of your eye,í while there is still a beam in your own eye?

But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”

But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”

But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.

But if he will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ëevery matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.í

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.

But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred denarii. He grabbed him and began to choke him, saying, ëPay back what you owe me!í

When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and they went and recounted all of this to their master.

Then the master summoned him and declared, ëYou wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me.

When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.

But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.

Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.

When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them.

ëFriend,í he asked, ëhow did you get in here without wedding clothes?í But the man was speechless.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

And you say, ëIf we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.í

Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

And so upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

Truly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ëMy master will be away a long time.í