Bible Verses About Responsibility

When you enter someone's household, say, `Shalom aleikhem!'

If the home deserves it, let your shalom rest on it; if not, let your shalom return to you.

But if the people of a house or town will not welcome you or listen to you, leave it and shake its dust from your feet!

Yes, I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for the people of S'dom and `Amora than for that town!

Then Yeshua began to denounce the towns in which he had done most of his miracles, because the people had not turned from their sins to God.

"Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! Why, if the miracles done in you had been done in Tzor and Tzidon, they would long ago have put on sackcloth and ashes as evidence that they had changed their ways.

But I tell you it will be more bearable for Tzor and Tzidon than for you on the Day of Judgment!

And you, K'far-Nachum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Sh'ol!b For if the miracles done in you had been done in S'dom, it would still be in existence today.

But I tell you that on the Day of Judgment it will be more bearable for the land of S'dom than for you!"

for by your own words you will be acquitted, and by your own words you will be condemned."

The people of Ninveh will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for they turned from their sins to God when Yonah preached, but what is here now is greater than Yonah.

The Queen of the South will stand up at the Judgment with this generation and condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, but what is here now is greater than Shlomo.

In this you testify against yourselves that you are worthy descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Go ahead then, finish what your fathers started!

"You snakes! Sons of snakes! How can you escape being condemned to Gei Hinnom?

Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and Torah-teachers -- some of them you will kill, indeed, you will have them executed on stakes as criminals; some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town.

And so, on you will fall the guilt for all the innocent blood that has ever been shed on earth, from the blood of innocent Hevel to the blood of Z'kharyah Ben-Berekhyah, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.

"For it will be like a man about to leave home for awhile, who entrusted his possessions to his servants.

To one he gave five talents [equivalent to a hundred years' wages]; to another, two talents; and to another, one talent -- to each according to his ability. Then he left.

The one who had received five talents immediately went out, invested it and earned another five.

Similarly, the one given two earned another two.

But the one given one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

"After a long time, the master of those servants returned to settle accounts with them.

The one who had received five talents came forward bringing the other five and said, `Sir, you gave me five talents; here, I have made five more.'

His master said to him, `Excellent! You are a good and trustworthy servant. You have been faithful with a small amount, so I will put you in charge of a large amount. Come and join in your master's happiness!'