What Does the Bible Say About Be Ready To Give An Account?

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

Romans 8:29-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 5:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more,

Romans 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Acts 11:1-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now the apostles and the brothers who were throughout Judea heard that the Gentiles also had received the word of God. So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.” But Peter began and explained it to them in order: “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me. ...

Romans 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.

Psalm 78:1-72 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A Maskil of Asaph. Give ear, O my people, to my teaching; incline your ears to the words of my mouth! I will open my mouth in a parable; I will utter dark sayings from of old, things that we have heard and known, that our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children, but tell to the coming generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, and his might, and the wonders that he has done. He established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children, ...

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good.

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For all who are led by the Spirit of God are sons of God.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Acts 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For nothing will be impossible with God.”

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. And the tempter came and said to him, “If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.” But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’” Then the devil took him to the holy city and set him on the pinnacle of the temple ...

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Titus 3:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

2 Corinthians 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

Romans 1:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Mark 9:37 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“Whoever receives one such child in my name receives me, and whoever receives me, receives not me but him who sent me.”

Matthew 10:1-42 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And he called to him his twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal every disease and every affliction. The names of the twelve apostles are these: first, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother; James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him. These twelve Jesus sent out, instructing them, “Go nowhere among the Gentiles and enter no town of the Samaritans, ...

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

31 Bible Verses about Be Ready To Give An Account

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 18 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 8:29-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

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Acts 11:1-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 78:1-72 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Mark 9:37 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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31 Bible Verses about Be Ready To Give An Account

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1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 18 helpful votes

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 8:29-30 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 3:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Romans 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 5:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 1:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Acts 11:1-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Romans 5:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Psalm 78:1-72 ESV / 3 helpful votes

1 Peter 2:2-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Hebrews 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 8:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Romans 6:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Acts 1:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

John 3:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Luke 1:37 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 4:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Psalm 119:105 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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Titus 3:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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