100 Bible Verses About Responsibility

Bible verses about Responsibility

Understanding responsibility through scripture illuminates our path towards spiritual growth and a deeper connection with God. The Bible emphasizes that we are stewards of the gifts and talents entrusted to us, called to act with integrity and purpose in all aspects of life. By embracing our responsibilities—to ourselves, our families, our communities, and ultimately to God—we reflect His character and contribute to His divine plan. Exploring these verses provides wisdom and guidance for living a life of purpose, accountability, and unwavering faith, fostering a closer relationship with the Almighty.

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Leviticus 7:31 (KJV)

And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

Own Your Actions: Bible Verses on Responsibility

In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man.

Joshua 7:14KJV

The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.

Exodus 35:19KJV

So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.

1 Chronicles 15:14KJV

Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying,

Jeremiah 5:20KJV

And Moses did as the Lord commanded him: and he took Joshua, and set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation:

Numbers 27:22KJV

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy.

Leviticus 19:2KJV

And every raven after his kind,

Deuteronomy 14:14KJV

And they arose early: and it came to pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.

1 Samuel 9:26KJV

And he answered and said, Must I not take heed to speak that which the Lord hath put in my mouth?

Numbers 23:12KJV

Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

Exodus 21:21KJV

And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and four thousand and four hundred.

Numbers 2:6KJV

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?

Job 9:24KJV

Before the Lord; for he cometh to judge the earth: with righteousness shall he judge the world, and the people with equity.

Psalms 98:9KJV

Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.

Proverbs 6:4KJV

And his brethren went to feed their father’s flock in Shechem.

Genesis 37:12KJV

I have preached righteousness in the great congregation: lo, I have not refrained my lips, O Lord, thou knowest.

Psalms 40:9KJV

And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

Leviticus 7:31KJV

And he said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock:

Genesis 30:31KJV

And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

Nehemiah 2:6KJV

Take also the sum of the sons of Gershon, throughout the houses of their fathers, by their families;

Numbers 4:22KJV

In the first place went the standard of the camp of the children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was Nahshon the son of Amminadab.

Numbers 10:14KJV

And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

Numbers 13:3KJV

Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens:

Genesis 49:14KJV

And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

Leviticus 24:5KJV

Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Deuteronomy 19:12KJV

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

Exodus 13:10KJV

By much slothfulness the building decayeth; and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through.

Ecclesiastes 10:18KJV

Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.

Numbers 15:29KJV

And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

Deuteronomy 22:2KJV

Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.

Proverbs 22:28KJV

And the watchman saw another man running: and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.

2 Samuel 18:26KJV

Ye are my brethren, ye are my bones and my flesh: wherefore then are ye the last to bring back the king?

2 Samuel 19:12KJV

Now therefore, if ye have done truly and sincerely, in that ye have made Abimelech king, and if ye have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done unto him according to the deserving of his hands;

Judges 9:16KJV

For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father’s house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Esther 4:14KJV

And Saul said, Draw ye near hither, all the chief of the people: and know and see wherein this sin hath been this day.

1 Samuel 14:38KJV

And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.

Nehemiah 13:13KJV

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

Psalms 75:2KJV

When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

Exodus 18:16KJV

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.

Numbers 32:25KJV

And thou shalt make bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

Exodus 26:26KJV

But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

Exodus 12:44KJV

And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

Exodus 25:10KJV

And thou shalt anoint the altar of the burnt offering, and all his vessels, and sanctify the altar: and it shall be an altar most holy.

Exodus 40:10KJV

And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;

Leviticus 4:27KJV

And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I am not learned.

Isaiah 29:12KJV

And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

Exodus 27:6KJV

And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are given as a gift for the Lord, to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Numbers 18:6KJV

And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

Exodus 27:1KJV

And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel?

1 Samuel 2:28KJV

And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

Genesis 43:6KJV

Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

Deuteronomy 19:19KJV

And Abimelech said, I wot not who hath done this thing: neither didst thou tell me, neither yet heard I of it, but to day.

Genesis 21:26KJV

And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

Genesis 41:35KJV

And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and put the bonnets on them: and the priest’s office shall be theirs for a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

Exodus 29:9KJV

Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.

Exodus 22:30KJV

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

Job 31:38KJV

And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.

1 Kings 9:15KJV

Be not thou one of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts.

Proverbs 22:26KJV

For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead there.

Judges 21:9KJV

Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

1 Kings 8:39KJV

And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;

Leviticus 11:14KJV

That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

Deuteronomy 4:42KJV

And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.

1 Samuel 9:5KJV

Thou wilt surely wear away, both thou, and this people that is with thee: for this thing is too heavy for thee; thou art not able to perform it thyself alone.

Exodus 18:18KJV

Of the children of Perez was the chief of all the captains of the host for the first month.

1 Chronicles 27:3KJV

And thou shalt set the Levites before Aaron, and before his sons, and offer them for an offering unto the Lord.

Numbers 8:13KJV

The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

Deuteronomy 28:56KJV

And all the pins of the tabernacle, and of the court round about, were of brass.

Exodus 38:20KJV

The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

Isaiah 3:3KJV

Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart: thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour, and not suffer sin upon him.

Leviticus 19:17KJV

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

Judges 21:25KJV

Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

Deuteronomy 6:17KJV

And say ye to Amasa, Art thou not of my bone, and of my flesh? God do so to me, and more also, if thou be not captain of the host before me continually in the room of Joab.

2 Samuel 19:13KJV

And thou shalt kill the bullock before the Lord, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Exodus 29:11KJV

And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

Exodus 16:17KJV

Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,

1 Samuel 8:4KJV

And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?

1 Kings 12:6KJV

And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening.

Exodus 18:13KJV

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Leviticus 17:14KJV

These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon’s work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that wrought in the work.

1 Kings 9:23KJV

But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

Numbers 1:47KJV

And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.

Judges 10:3KJV

And thou shalt make upon the breastplate two rings of gold, and shalt put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.

Exodus 28:23KJV

And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:

Deuteronomy 1:23KJV

(Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,

Numbers 31:43KJV

And this is the law of the meat offering: the sons of Aaron shall offer it before the Lord, before the altar.

Leviticus 6:14KJV

And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.

Numbers 27:20KJV

And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.

1 Kings 14:27KJV

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked.

Proverbs 29:12KJV

And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

Genesis 37:21KJV

Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

1 Chronicles 26:29KJV

And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:

2 Samuel 20:24KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

Numbers 4:17KJV

Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

Proverbs 6:27KJV

And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Deuteronomy 21:7KJV

Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.

Leviticus 25:49KJV

And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.

Genesis 42:38KJV

And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the Lord liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

Judges 8:19KJV

What man soever there be of the house of Israel, that killeth an ox, or lamb, or goat, in the camp, or that killeth it out of the camp,

Leviticus 17:3KJV

Sallu, Amok, Hilkiah, Jedaiah. These were the chief of the priests and of their brethren in the days of Jeshua.

Nehemiah 12:7KJV

The Bible's teachings on responsibility offer a timeless framework for navigating life with purpose and integrity. From Genesis' call to steward creation to Jesus' parables on accountability, these verses consistently underscore the importance of diligence, faithfulness, and wise decision-making. We are each entrusted with unique gifts, opportunities, and relationships, and our actions inevitably carry consequences, both for ourselves and for others. Reflecting on these scriptures encourages a deeper understanding of our roles within God's plan and inspires us to embrace our obligations with a spirit of humility and service. May these verses serve as a constant reminder to act responsibly in all areas of life, striving to live in accordance with God's will and to be a positive influence in the world around us. Ultimately, embracing responsibility is an act of worship and a pathway to a more meaningful and fulfilling existence.