Bible Verses About Community Accountability

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.

But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye throughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour;

And these things give in charge, that they may be blameless.

Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work,

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Take heed to yourselves: If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him.

And let these also first be proved; then let them use the office of a deacon, being found blameless.

Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

For the body is not one member, but many.

And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.

And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

See that none render evil for evil unto any man; but ever follow that which is good, both among yourselves, and to all men.

And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.

For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as of evildoers, they may be ashamed that falsely accuse your good conversation in Christ.

And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican.

But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us?

Either make the tree good, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by his fruit.

They helped every one his neighbour; and every one said to his brother, Be of good courage.

And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.

But we will not boast of things without our measure, but according to the measure of the rule which God hath distributed to us, a measure to reach even unto you.

Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)