Bible Verses About Divine Accountability

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.

Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

Then hear thou from heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, by requiting the wicked, by recompensing his way upon his own head; and by justifying the righteous, by giving him according to his righteousness.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?

For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.

For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward;

For he will not lay upon man more than right; that he should enter into judgment with God.

Great in counsel, and mighty in work: for thine eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men: to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

The Lord shall judge the people: judge me, O Lord, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight shall no man living be justified.

The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities.

If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:

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

For the Lord will judge his people, and he will repent himself concerning his servants.

Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not;

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

Therefore hath the Lord recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.

I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead.

He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.