Quotes about Responsibility
“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
— Amos 4:6
“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
— Amos 4:12
Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
— Amos 8:4
Now the word of the LORD came to Jonah son of Amittai, saying,
— Jonah 1:1
“Come!” said the sailors to one another. “Let us cast lots to find out who is responsible for this calamity that is upon us.” So they cast lots, and the lot fell on Jonah.
— Jonah 1:7
“Tell us now,” they demanded, “who is to blame for this calamity that is upon us? What is your occupation, and where have you come from? What is your country, and who are your people?”
— Jonah 1:8
Then the men were even more afraid and said to him, “What have you done?” The men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of the LORD, because he had told them.
— Jonah 1:10
“Pick me up,” he answered, “and cast me into the sea, so it may quiet down for you. For I know that I am to blame for this violent storm that has come upon you.”
— Jonah 1:12
He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
— Micah 6:8
Then the earth will become desolate because of its inhabitants, as the fruit of their deeds.
— Micah 7:13
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at their nakedness!
— Habakkuk 2:15
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
— Haggai 1:4