What Does the Bible Say About Holding Others Accountable?

Jude 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Romans 8:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property, and with his wife's knowledge he kept back for himself some of the proceeds and brought only a part of it and laid it at the apostles' feet. But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and to keep back for yourself part of the proceeds of the land? While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God.” When Ananias heard these words, he fell down and breathed his last. And great fear came upon all who heard of it. ...

John 7:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

1 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To another the working of miracles, to another prophecy, to another the ability to distinguish between spirits, to another various kinds of tongues, to another the interpretation of tongues.

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

Romans 12:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Or do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. ...

Luke 19:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He entered Jericho and was passing through. And behold, there was a man named Zacchaeus. He was a chief tax collector and was rich. And he was seeking to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was small in stature. So he ran on ahead and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was about to pass that way. And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for I must stay at your house today.” ...

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. ...

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

At that time the disciples came to Jesus, saying, “Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” And calling to him a child, he put him in the midst of them and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. “Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, ...

Revelation 22:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

No longer will there be anything accursed, but the throne of God and of the Lamb will be in it, and his servants will worship him.

Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Not a result of works, so that no one may boast.

17 Bible Verses about Holding Others Accountable

Jude 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 8:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 7:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 19:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 22:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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17 Bible Verses about Holding Others Accountable

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Jude 1:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Romans 8:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Acts 5:1-42 ESV / 3 helpful votes

John 7:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Corinthians 5:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 12:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 19:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 18:1-35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Revelation 22:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Ephesians 2:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote