"Is there any . . . profit [gain] if you make your ways perfect?" (Job 22:3). Nowadays you are to "prove yourselves to be blameless and innocent, children of God above reproach" (Php 2:15). "God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them" (2Co 5:19). "This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previosly committed" (Ro 3:25). "He has now reconciled you . . . in order to present you before Him holy and blameless" (Col 1:22). It is "so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him" (2Co 5:21). "Blessed is the man whose sin the Lord will not take into account" (Ro 4:8). "The Lord of hosts will have a day of reckoning" (Isa 2:12). "'The day that is coming will set them ablaze' says the Lord of hosts" (Mal 4:1). "They will give account to Him who is ready to judge the living and the dead" (1Pe 4:5). It is as certain as paying your income tax. You will be accepted "if indeed you continue in the faith firmly established and steadfast, not moved away from the hope of the gospel" (Col 1:23).
What is it to be accountable? Darius appointed "120 satraps over the kingdom, that they should be in charge" (Da 6:1) and "over them three commissioners . . . [that they] might be accountable to them" (:2). Accountable means responsible for what they were put in charge of. In the church "they keep watch over your souls as those who will give an account" (Heb 13:17). "Let them do this . . . [or else it] would be unprofitable for you" (:18). Paul said "I count" (Php 3:8), he "counted" (:7), and cited God's "not counting" (2Co 5:19). In the concordance you see that the root word is logos which has many applications. It is a statement of a certain truth in the form of a message, speech, documenting, or testimony which establishes authenticity.