Quotes about Responsibility
You are to appoint judges and officials for your tribes in every town that the LORD your God is giving you. They are to judge the people with righteous judgment.
— Deuteronomy 16:18
you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.
— Deuteronomy 17:5
The hands of the witnesses shall be the first in putting him to death, and after that, the hands of all the people. So you must purge the evil from among you.
— Deuteronomy 17:7
But the man who acts presumptuously, refusing to listen either to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, or to the judge, must be put to death. You must purge the evil from Israel.
— Deuteronomy 17:12
He must not take many wives for himself, lest his heart go astray. He must not accumulate for himself large amounts of silver and gold.
— Deuteronomy 17:17
And I will hold accountable anyone who does not listen to My words that the prophet speaks in My name.
— Deuteronomy 18:19
the elders of his city must send for him, bring him back, and hand him over to the avenger of blood to die.
— Deuteronomy 19:12
Has any man become pledged to a woman and not married her? Let him return home, or he may die in battle and another man marry her.”
— Deuteronomy 20:7
and they shall declare, “Our hands did not shed this blood, nor did our eyes see it.
— Deuteronomy 21:7
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
— Deuteronomy 21:18
his father and mother are to lay hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown,
— Deuteronomy 21:19
and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
— Deuteronomy 21:20