Personal Responsibility
10 passages
- Galatians 6:5
For each one should carry his own load.
Read it in context - 2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.
Read it in context - 1 Timothy 5:8
If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
Read it in context - Proverbs 28:13
He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.
Read it in context - 1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways.
Read it in context - 2 Peter 1:10
Therefore, brothers, strive to make your calling and election sure. For if you practice these things you will never stumble,
Read it in context - Colossians 3:23
Whatever you do, work at it with your whole being, as for the Lord and not for men,
Read it in context - Ezekiel 18:20
The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of the righteous man will fall upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked man will fall upon him.
Read it in context - 2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
Read it in context - Luke 12:48
But the one who unknowingly does things worthy of punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from him who has been entrusted with much, even more will be demanded.
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