Bible Verses About Human Responsibility

What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

For every man shall bear his own burden.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

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

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

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

And by reason hereof he ought, as for the people, so also for himself, to offer for sins.

For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.

For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

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.

For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.

Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

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

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

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

And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation;

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.

What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

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

I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.

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:)

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

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.

So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the Lord.

Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

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

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?

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

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.