Holding Christians Accountable

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

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

but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.

When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.

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

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

Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren’t tempted. — read the full passage →

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend’s countenance.

not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as you see the Day approaching.

He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female, — 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.

Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Jesus answered and spoke again in parables to them, saying, — read the full passage →

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch on behalf of your souls, as those who will give account, that they may do this with joy, and not with groaning, for that would be unprofitable for you.

When I tell the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you don’t speak to warn the wicked from his way; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at your hand.

They think it is strange that you don’t run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming: — read the full passage →

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where there was a garden, into which he and his disciples entered. — read the full passage →

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment. — read the full passage →

“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, — read the full passage →

When you vow a vow to Yahweh your God, you shall not be slack to pay it; for Yahweh your God will surely require it of you; and it would be sin in you.

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.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. — read the full passage →

There is no creature that is hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and laid open before the eyes of him to whom we must give an account.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world’s rulers of the darkness of this age, and against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

But you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ. — read the full passage →

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

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.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes, — read the full passage →

“Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

The soul who sins, he 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 on him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be on him.

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. — read the full passage →

Behold, I was born in iniquity. In sin my mother conceived me.

“‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your brother’s wife. It is your brother’s nakedness.

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,

This commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should also love his brother.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back, — read the full passage →

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

So, then, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger;

Let us consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.

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

Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.

Don’t seek revenge yourselves, beloved, but give place to God’s wrath. For it is written, “Vengeance belongs to me; I will repay, says the Lord.”

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate one to another; in honor preferring one another;

Now we know that whatever things the law says, it speaks to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be closed, and all the world may be brought under the judgment of God.

There is salvation in none other, for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, by which we must be saved!”

If a man doesn’t remain in me, he is thrown out as a branch, and is withered; and they gather them, throw them into the fire, and they are burned.

But Peter said, “Man, I don’t know what you are talking about!” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. — read the full passage →

Be careful. If your brother sins against you, rebuke him. If he repents, forgive him. — read the full passage →

“If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregardhis own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Go,and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, — read the full passage →

“The King will answer them, ‘Most certainly I tell you, because you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.’

“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery;’ — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

But if the watchman sees the sword come, and doesn’t blow the trumpet, and the people aren’t warned, and the sword comes, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

They shall also bring up a company against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and thrust you through with their swords.

Again, when a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.

The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who is wise listens to counsel.

Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, “God won’t call me into account?”

Now on the third day, Esther put on her royal clothing, and stood in the inner court of the king’s house, next to the king’s house. The king sat on his royal throne in the royal house, next to the entrance of the house. — read the full passage →

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him. — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for I see not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”

then they shall bring out the young lady to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done folly in Israel, to play the prostitute in her father’s house. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

“You shall not commit adultery.

Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, — read the full passage →

“‘The man who commits adultery with another man’s wife, even he who commits adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

“Anyone who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.

God spoke all these words, saying, — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →