Account

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.

This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless in his generation; Noah walked with God.

This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

This is the account of Terah. Terah became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran. And Haran became the father of Lot.

Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”

He treated Abram well on her account, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”

Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”

And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”

Finally, Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not destroy it.”

Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’

…for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.

This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.

This is the account of Abraham’s son Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

This is the account of Esau (that is, Edom).

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

From the time that he put Joseph in charge of his household and all he owned, the LORD blessed the Egyptian’s household on account of him. The LORD’s blessing was on everything he owned, both in his house and in his field.

And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”

Moses relayed this message to the Israelites, but on account of their broken spirit and cruel bondage, they did not listen to him.

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the LORD has ignited.

You must not harbor hatred against your brother in your heart. Directly rebuke your neighbor, so that you will not incur guilt on account of him.

This is the account of Aaron and Moses at the time the LORD spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai.

But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!

But those who died from the plague numbered 14,700, in addition to those who had died on account of Korah.

The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.

The LORD, however, was angry with me on account of you, and He swore that I would not cross the Jordan to enter the good land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.

And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!”

And David said, “O LORD, God of Israel, Your servant has heard that Saul intends to come to Keilah and destroy the city on my account.

When Abner returned to Hebron, Joab pulled him aside into the gateway, as if to speak to him privately, and there Joab stabbed him in the stomach. So Abner died on account of the blood of Joab’s brother Asahel.

Joab sent to David a full account of the battle

…and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king a full account of the battle,

This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.

…and this is the account of his rebellion against the king. Solomon had built the supporting terraces and repaired the gap in the wall of the city of his father David.

So He will give Israel over on account of the sins Jeroboam has committed and has caused Israel to commit.”

And on account of the king of Assyria, he removed the Sabbath canopy they had built in the temple and closed the royal entryway outside the house of the LORD.

But they need not account for the money put into their hands, since they work with integrity.”

Thus King Joash failed to remember the kindness that Zechariah’s father Jehoiada had extended to him. Instead, Joash killed Jehoiada’s son. As he lay dying, Zechariah said, “May the LORD see this and call you to account.”

And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

…what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?

I would give account of all my steps; I would approach Him like a prince.)—

From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

Why has the wicked man renounced God? He says to himself, “You will never call me to account.”

Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.

Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

Mount Zion is glad, the daughters of Judah rejoice, on account of Your judgments.

You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?

What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.

Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

Look at the land of the Chaldeans—a people now of no account. The Assyrians destined it for the desert creatures; they set up their siege towers and stripped its palaces. They brought it to ruin.

“They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.

The LORD of Hosts, who planted you, has decreed disaster against you on account of the evil that the house of Israel and the house of Judah have brought upon themselves, provoking Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.”

“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.

Your fame spread among the nations on account of your beauty, for it was perfect in the splendor I bestowed on you, declares the Lord GOD.

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,

I will also make the fruit of the trees and the crops of the field plentiful, so that you will no longer bear reproach among the nations on account of famine.

In the first year of the reign of Belshazzar over Babylon, Daniel had a dream, and visions passed through his mind as he lay on his bed. He wrote down the dream, and this is the summary of his account.

So they cried out to the LORD: “Please, O LORD, do not let us perish on account of this man’s life! Do not charge us with innocent blood! For You, O LORD, have done as You pleased.”

Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

Those tending the pigs ran off into the town and reported all this, including the account of the demon-possessed men.

On My account you will be brought before governors and kings as witnesses to them and to the Gentiles.

Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”

But I tell you that men will give an account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken.

Now Herod had arrested John and bound him and put him in prison on account of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife,

Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Peter said to Him, “Even if all fall away on account of You, I never will.”

So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

For Herod himself had ordered that John be arrested and bound and imprisoned, on account of his brother Philip’s wife Herodias, whom Herod had married.

So be on your guard. You will be delivered over to the councils and beaten in the synagogues. On My account you will stand before governors and kings as witnesses to them.

Many have undertaken to compose an account of the things that have been fulfilled among us,

Therefore, having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, it seemed good also to me to write an orderly account for you, most excellent Theophilus,

Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”

So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’

But before all this, they will seize you and persecute you. On account of My name they will deliver you to the synagogues and prisons, and they will bring you before kings and governors.

On account of this, the Jews demanded, “What sign can You show us to prove Your authority to do these things?”

…for on account of him many of the Jews were deserting them and believing in Jesus.

Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.

When the captain of the temple guard and the chief priests heard this account, they were perplexed as to what was happening.

Paul wanted Timothy to accompany him, so he took him and circumcised him on account of the Jews in that area, for they all knew that his father was a Greek.

For we are in jeopardy of being charged with rioting for today’s events, and we have no justification to account for this commotion.”

For sin was in the world before the law was given; but sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.

Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.

So then, each of us will give an account of himself to God.

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

But if an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in while everyone is prophesying, he will be convicted and called to account by all,

So even though I wrote to you, it was not on account of the one who did wrong or the one who was harmed, but rather that your earnestness on our behalf would be made clear to you in the sight of God.

On account of this, we are encouraged. In addition to our own encouragement, we were even more delighted by the joy of Titus. For his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.

For some say, “His letters are weighty and forceful, but his physical presence is unimpressive, and his speaking is of no account.”

They only heard the account: “The man who formerly persecuted us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.”

…so that through my coming to you again your exultation in Christ Jesus will resound on account of me.

Not that I am seeking a gift, but I am looking for the fruit that may be credited to your account.

But if he has wronged you in any way or owes you anything, charge it to my account.