Quotes about Responsibility
Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
— Matthew 21:33
When the harvest time drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his share of the fruit.
— Matthew 21:34
But the tenants seized his servants. They beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
— Matthew 21:35
Again, he sent other servants, more than the first group. But the tenants did the same to them.
— Matthew 21:36
Therefore, when the owner of the vineyard returns, what will he do to those tenants?”
— Matthew 21:40
“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”
— Matthew 21:41
Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
— Matthew 21:43
But they paid no attention and went away, one to his field, another to his business.
— Matthew 22:5
“Caesar’s,” they answered. So Jesus told them, “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s.”
— Matthew 22:21
“Teacher,” they said, “Moses declared that if a man dies without having children, his brother is to marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
— Matthew 22:24
Now there were seven brothers among us. The first one married and died without having children. So he left his wife to his brother.
— Matthew 22:25
They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
— Matthew 23:4