Quotes about Accountability
“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.
— Jeremiah 50:31
You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
— Lamentations 3:64
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
— Lamentations 5:7
If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
— Ezekiel 3:18
But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
— Ezekiel 3:19
But as for Me, I will not look on them with pity, nor will I spare them. I will bring their deeds down upon their own heads.”
— Ezekiel 9:10
But as for those whose hearts pursue detestable things and abominations, I will bring their conduct down upon their own heads, declares the Lord GOD.”
— Ezekiel 11:21
tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.
— Ezekiel 13:11
Surely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’
— Ezekiel 13:12
They will bear their punishment—the punishment of the inquirer will be the same as that of the prophet—
— Ezekiel 14:10
You will bear the consequences of your lewdness and your abominations, declares the LORD.
— Ezekiel 16:58
Yet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
— Ezekiel 18:19