Bible Verses About Responsibility

Also the one who had received two came forward and said, `Sir, you gave me two talents; here, I have made two 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!'

"Now the one who had received one talent came forward and said, `I knew you were a hard man. You harvest where you didn't plant and gather where you didn't sow seed.

I was afraid, so I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here! Take what belongs to you!'

`You wicked, lazy servant!' said his master, `So you knew, did you, that I harvest where I haven't planted? and that I gather where I didn't sow seed?

Then you should have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I returned, I would at least have gotten back interest with my capital!

Take the talent from him and give it to the one who has ten.

For everyone who has something will be given more, so that he will have more than enough; but from anyone who has nothing, even what he does have will be taken away.

As for this worthless servant, throw him out in the dark, where people will wail and grind their teeth!'

All the people answered, "His blood is on us and on our children!"

and if the people of some place will not welcome you, and they refuse to hear you, then, as you leave, shake the dust off your feet as a warning to them."

Wherever they don’t welcome you, shake the dust from your feet when you leave that town as a warning to them.”

But whenever you enter a town and they don’t make you welcome, go out into its streets and say,

‘Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off as a sign against you! But understand this: the Kingdom of God is near!’

I tell you, it will be more tolerable on the Day of Judgment for S’dom than for that town.

“Woe to you, Korazin! Woe to you, Beit-Tzaidah! For 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 at the Judgment it will be more bearable for Tzor and Tzidon than for you!

“And you, K’far-Nachum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Sh’ol!

The Queen of the South will appear at the Judgment with the people of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Shlomo, and what is here now is greater than Shlomo.

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

Therefore the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and emissaries; they will kill some and persecute others’;

so that on this generation will fall the responsibility for all the prophets’ blood that has been shed since the world was established,

from the blood of Hevel to the blood of Z’kharyah, who was killed between the altar and the Holy Place. Yes, I tell you, the responsibility for it will fall on this generation!

Then Yeshua gave this illustration: “A man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came looking for fruit but didn’t find any.

So he said to the man who took care of the vineyard, ‘Here, I’ve come looking for fruit on this fig tree for three years now without finding any. Cut it down — why let it go on using up the soil?’