Quotes About Accountability

because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

And if I do what I do not want to do, I admit that the law is good.

Pay everyone what you owe him: taxes to whom taxes are due, revenue to whom revenue is due, respect to whom respect is due, honor to whom honor is due.

Who are you to judge someone elseís servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

Why, then, do you judge your brother? Or why do you belittle your brother? For we will all stand before Godís judgment seat.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Now it is required of stewards that they be found faithful.

My conscience is clear, but that does not vindicate me. It is the Lord who judges me.

Some of you have become arrogant, as if I were not coming to you.

And you are proud! Shouldnít you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?

What business of mine is it to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside?

God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”

Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, even against your own brothers!

This is my defense to those who scrutinize me:

Each one must examine himself before he eats of the bread and drinks of the cup.

Now if we judged ourselves properly, we would not come under judgment.

But if an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in while everyone is prophesying, he will be convicted and called to account by all,

But if anyone ignores this, he himself will be ignored.

The punishment imposed on him by the majority is sufficient for him.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.

Therefore, since we know what it means to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is clear to God, and I hope it is clear to your conscience as well.

We put no obstacle in anyoneís way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.

So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong or the one who was harmed, but rather that your earnestness on our behalf would be made clear to you in the sight of God.