Bible Verses About Responsibility

But he answering, said to him: Lord, let it alone this year also, until I dig about it and dung it.

And if happily it bear fruit: but if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

He said therefore: a certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds and said to them: Trade till I come.

But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us.

And it came to pass that he returned, having received the kingdom: and he commanded his servants to be called, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading,

And the first came saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities.

And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.

And he said to him: Be thou also over five cities.

And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin.

For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow.

He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow.

And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury?

And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him and give it to him that hath ten pounds.

And they said to him: Lord, he hath ten pounds.

But I say to you that to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.

But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over them, bring them hither and kill them before me.

And looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the treasury.

And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in two brass mites.

And he said: Verily, I say to you that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all.

For all these have of their abundance cast into the offerings of God: but she of her want hath cast in all the living that she had.

He that believeth in him is not judged. But he that doth not believe is already judged: because he believeth not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.

Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.