Age Of Accountability

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

But Jesus said, “Allow the little children, and don’t forbid them to come to me; for the Kingdom of Heaven belongs to ones like these.”

So then each one of us will give account of himself to God.

and said, “Most certainly I tell you, unless you turn, and become as little children, you will in no way enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.

When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast, — read the full passage →

for all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God;

For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. — read the full passage →

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

See that you don’t despise one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

And he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.

I was alive apart from the law once, but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, “Allow the little children to come to me! Don’t forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these.

for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, — read the full passage →

For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law.

Therefore as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin; and so death passed to all men, because all sinned. — read the full passage →

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. — read the full passage →

For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

Jesus answered him, “Most certainly, I tell you, unless one is born anew, he can’t see the Kingdom of God.”

because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God’s law, neither indeed can it be.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

The commandment, which was for life, this I found to be for death;

For the woman that has a husband is bound by law to the husband while he lives, but if the husband dies, she is discharged from the law of the husband.

But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John, — read the full passage →

Whoever therefore humbles himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven.

You fathers, don’t provoke your children to wrath, but nurture them in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love;

because that which is known of God is revealed in them, for God revealed it to them. — read the full passage →

His parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover. — read the full passage →

They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. — read the full passage →

that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.

for sin, finding occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one.

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

If then you were raised together with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated on the right hand of God. — read the full passage →

through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

Therefore, my brothers, you also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ, that you would be joined to another, to him who was raised from the dead, that we might produce fruit to God.

The same came to him by night, and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do, unless God is with him.”

The true light that enlightens everyone was coming into the world.

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.’ — read the full passage →