83 Bible Verses about Age of Accountability (KJV)

Here are 83 Bible verses about age of accountability, curated from both the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, King James Version, arranged from most to least relevant.

Deuteronomy 1:39 KJV

³⁹Moreover your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, and your children, which in that day had no knowledge between good and evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

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James 4:17 KJV

¹⁷Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.

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Matthew 19:14 KJV

¹⁴But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.

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Proverbs 20:11 KJV

¹¹Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right.

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Ezekiel 18:20 KJV

²⁰The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

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Isaiah 7:16 KJV

¹⁶For before the child shall know to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land that thou abhorrest shall be forsaken of both her kings.

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Romans 14:12 KJV

¹²So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God.

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Matthew 18:3 KJV

³And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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Luke 2:42-46 KJV

⁴²And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. ⁴³And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it. ⁴⁴But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance. …

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Psalm 51:5 KJV

⁵Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

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Psalm 58:3 KJV

³The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.

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Romans 3:23 KJV

²³For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

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2 Samuel 12:23 KJV

²³But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

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1 Corinthians 7:14 KJV

¹⁴For the unbelieving husband is sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified by the husband: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

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Exodus 30:14 KJV

¹⁴Every one that passeth among them that are numbered, from twenty years old and above, shall give an offering unto the Lord.

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Numbers 14:28-30 KJV

²⁸Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the Lord, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: ²⁹Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me. ³⁰Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the …

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Romans 7:9-11 KJV

⁹For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died. ¹⁰And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death. ¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

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2 Samuel 12:22-23 KJV

²²And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? ²³But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me.

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Romans 6:23 KJV

²³For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

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Matthew 18:10 KJV

¹⁰Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

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2 Samuel 12:21-23 KJV

²¹Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. ²²And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? ²³But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can …

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John 3:16 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

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Numbers 14:29 KJV

²⁹Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me.

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1 John 2:2 KJV

²And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

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Romans 7:9 KJV

⁹For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.

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Isaiah 7:15 KJV

¹⁵Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil, and choose the good.

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Mark 10:14 KJV

¹⁴But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God.

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Proverbs 22:6 KJV

⁶Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

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Romans 2:12 KJV

¹²For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

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Luke 1:15 KJV

¹⁵For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother’s womb.

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Ephesians 2:8-9 KJV

⁸For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹Not of works, lest any man should boast.

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Ephesians 2:3 KJV

³Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

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Romans 5:12-14 KJV

¹²Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: ¹³(For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. ¹⁴Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

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John 14:6 KJV

⁶Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

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Romans 7:7 KJV

⁷What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.

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Proverbs 27:17 KJV

¹⁷Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend.

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Psalm 51:1-19 KJV

¹Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. ²Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. ³For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. ⁴Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou …

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1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 KJV

¹³But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. ¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. ¹⁵For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them …

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Romans 10:14 KJV

¹⁴How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

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John 9:41 KJV

⁴¹Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

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John 3:3 KJV

³Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

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Romans 9:15 KJV

¹⁵For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

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Romans 8:7 KJV

⁷Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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Romans 7:3 KJV

³So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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John 3:16-17 KJV

¹⁶For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. ¹⁷For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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James 5:16 KJV

¹⁶Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

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Isaiah 3:1-26 KJV

¹For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water. ²The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient, ³The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator. …

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Revelation 21:27 KJV

²⁷And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

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Romans 7:2 KJV

²For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

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Romans 5:8 KJV

⁸But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

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Revelation 1:1-20 KJV

¹The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: ²Who bare record of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, and of all things that he saw. ³Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things …

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Romans 7:10 KJV

¹⁰And the commandment, which was ordained to life, I found to be unto death.

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Genesis 18:25 KJV

²⁵That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

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Revelation 20:12 KJV

¹²And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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Luke 2:41-42 KJV

⁴¹Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover. ⁴²And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

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Ezekiel 18:1-32 KJV

¹The word of the Lord came unto me again, saying, ²What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge? ³As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. ⁴Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, …

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Psalm 51:4 KJV

⁴Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

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Genesis 1:1 KJV

¹In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

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Matthew 18:4 KJV

⁴Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

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Ephesians 6:4 KJV

⁴And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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Ephesians 2:2 KJV

²Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

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Ephesians 1:5 KJV

⁵Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

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Ephesians 1:4 KJV

⁴According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

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Romans 1:19-20 KJV

¹⁹Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. ²⁰For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

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Isaiah 3:2 KJV

²The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,

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2 Samuel 12:13-23 KJV

¹³And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die. ¹⁴Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die. ¹⁵And Nathan departed unto his house. And the Lord struck the child that Uriah’s wife …

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Romans 9:2 KJV

²That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

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Romans 7:11 KJV

¹¹For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

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Mark 10:13-16 KJV

¹³And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them. ¹⁴But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God. ¹⁵Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not …

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Nehemiah 8:2 KJV

²And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women, and all that could hear with understanding, upon the first day of the seventh month.

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2 Samuel 12:22 KJV

²²And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live?

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1 Thessalonians 4:2 KJV

²For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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Romans 5:2 KJV

²By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.

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Romans 3:10 KJV

¹⁰As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:

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Jonah 4:11 KJV

¹¹And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

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Colossians 3:1-25 KJV

¹If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. ²Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. ³For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. ⁴When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory. …

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Romans 7:4 KJV

⁴Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

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John 3:2 KJV

²The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.

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John 1:9 KJV

⁹That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.

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Luke 1:3 KJV

³It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus,

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Matthew 20:8-16 KJV

⁸So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. ⁹And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. ¹⁰But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. …

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Psalm 51:2 KJV

²Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

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1 Kings 14:1-31 KJV

¹At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick. ²And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, which told me that I should be king over this people. ³And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee …

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