Bible Verses About Spiritual Responsibility

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.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

Feed the flock of God which is among you, taking the oversight thereof, not by constraint, but willingly; not for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind;

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

It hath pleased them verily; and their debtors they are. For if the Gentiles have been made partakers of their spiritual things, their duty is also to minister unto them in carnal things.

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

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

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things;

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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

Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

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

And say to Archippus, Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received in the Lord, that thou fulfil it.

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

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

But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;

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;

And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.

And ye have not kept the charge of mine holy things: but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

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?

If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

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

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.

But I will make them keepers of the charge of the house, for all the service thereof, and for all that shall be done therein.

And now, Israel, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

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?

Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

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.

And the Lord said unto Aaron, Thou and thy sons and thy father’s house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary: and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood.

But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Obey them that have the rule over you, and submit yourselves: for they watch for your souls, as they that must give account, that they may do it with joy, and not with grief: for that is unprofitable for you.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.