Quotes about Responsibility
For I have told you today, but you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD your God in all He has sent me to tell you.
— Jeremiah 42:21
Cursed is the one who is remiss in doing the work of the LORD, and cursed is he who withholds his sword from bloodshed.
— Jeremiah 48:10
For this is what the LORD says: “If those who do not deserve to drink the cup must drink it, can you possibly remain unpunished? You will not go unpunished, for you must drink it too.
— Jeremiah 49:12
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.
— Lamentations 3:27
But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.
— Lamentations 4:13
Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.
— Lamentations 5:7
Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
— Lamentations 5:13
Then He said to me, “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.
— Ezekiel 3:4
Go to your people, the exiles; speak to them and tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ whether they listen or refuse to listen.”
— Ezekiel 3:11
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
— Ezekiel 3:17
If I say to the wicked man, ‘You will surely die,’ but you do not warn him or speak out to warn him from his wicked way to save his life, that wicked man will die in his iniquity, and I will hold you responsible for his blood.
— Ezekiel 3:18
But if you warn a wicked man and he does not turn from his wickedness and his wicked way, he will die in his iniquity, but you will have saved yourself.
— Ezekiel 3:19