18 Bible Verses About Personal Accountability

Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.

If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid wait at my neighbour’s door;

And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

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

Thy wickedness may hurt a man as thou art; and thy righteousness may profit the son of man.

If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more:

Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book.

Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the offices thereof.

If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.

Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.

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

Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

Let thine ear now be attentive, and thine eyes open, that thou mayest hear the prayer of thy servant, which I pray before thee now, day and night, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned.

If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;