Quotes about Responsibility
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
— Genesis 3:13
If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”
— Genesis 4:7
And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
— Genesis 4:9
“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
— Genesis 4:10
And surely I will require the life of any man or beast by whose hand your lifeblood is shed. I will demand an accounting from anyone who takes the life of his fellow man:
— Genesis 9:5
When Noah awoke from his drunkenness and learned what his youngest son had done to him,
— Genesis 9:24
Look, I have two daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them to you, and you can do to them as you please. But do not do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof.”
— Genesis 19:8
Come, let us get our father drunk with wine so we can sleep with him and preserve his line.”
— Genesis 19:32
So that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the firstborn went in and slept with her father; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
— Genesis 19:33
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
— Genesis 19:34
So again that night they got their father drunk with wine, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him; he was not aware when she lay down or when she got up.
— Genesis 19:35
Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”
— Genesis 20:9