60 Bible Verses about Forgetting

For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God,

I have heard what the prophets have said who prophesy falsely in my name. They say: 'I had a dream! I had a dream! How long? Is there anything in the hearts of the prophets, who prophesy falsehood, even these prophets of the deception of their own heart? They think the dreams they tell will make my people forget my name, just as their ancestors forgot my name and turned to Baal worship.

Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation. They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols. They sacrificed to demons that are not God. They served gods they did not know. These were new gods who came from nearby, gods your ancestors never worshiped.read more.
You ignored the rock that fathered you and forgot the God who gave you life.

The people of Israel forgot Jehovah their God. They sinned against him and worshiped the idols of Baal and Asherah.

My people have forgotten me. They burn incense to worthless gods and they have stumbled from their ways. They stray from the ancient paths to walk in pathways and not on a highway.

I will punish her for the days in which she burned incense to the Baals, when she decked herself with her earrings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, said Jehovah.

I AM JEHOVAH YOUR GOD. I brought you out of Egypt. You have known no god besides me. There is no savior except me. I took care of you in the desert, in a dry land. When I fed you, you were full. When you were full, you became arrogant. That is why you forgot me.

However when he became powerful, his pride destroyed him. He was unfaithful to Jehovah his God. He went into Jehovah's Temple to burn incense on the incense altar.

In his arrogant attitude he does not search for God. His faulty reasoning concludes: There is no God.

It is not for kings, O Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes to desire strong drink. They will drink and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.

Noah, a man of the soil, planted a vineyard. He drank some of its wine. He became drunk and lay undressed inside his tent.

Who then is the faithful, thoughtful, and wise servant, whom his lord put in charge of his other servants, to give them their food at the proper time? That servant is blessed when his lord comes and finds him doing his will. I tell you, he will put him in charge of everything he owns.read more.
But if that evil servant says in his heart, 'My lord delays, so I will beat (mistreat) my fellow servants.' And he eats and drinks with drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect it, an hour when he is unaware. He will punish him severely, and send him to be with the hypocrites. There they will cry and grind their teeth.

The Lord said: Who is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master shall appoint over his household, to give them their food at the proper time? That servant will be blessed when his master comes and finds him doing so. I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all that he has.read more.
If that servant says in his heart, my master delays his coming; and beats the other servants and eats and drinks to excess, the master of that servant will come when he does not expect. He will come in an hour that he does not know. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

My heart has been stricken like grass and has withered away. In fact I forget to eat my bread.

It is just as I said to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is going to do. Seven years are coming when there will be plenty of food in Egypt. Seven years of famine will follow. Then people will forget that there was plenty of food in Egypt. The famine will ruin the land.read more.
People will not remember that there was once plenty of food in the land, because the coming famine will be so severe.

Peace has been removed far away from me. I do not remember what good is. I said: My strength is cut off, and my hope from Jehovah. Remember my trouble and my wandering, the bitterroot and the poison.read more.
Remember and bow (bend) (come down to my level) down deep within me.

Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph. In fact he forgot him.

My brothers stay far away from me. My friends are complete strangers to me. My relatives and my closest friends have stopped coming. My houseguests have forgotten me. My female slaves consider me to be a stranger. I am like a foreigner to them.

I have become a disgrace because of all my opponents. I have become someone dreaded by my friends, even by my neighbors. Those who see me on the street run away from me. I have faded from memory as if I were dead and have become like a piece of broken pottery.

You ignored the rock that fathered you and forgot the God who gave you life.

After those generations were gathered to their fathers (died) another generation followed them. This new generation did not know Jehovah or the works he had done for Israel. The children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, and served Baalim: They forsook Jehovah God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt. They followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them. They bowed to them and provoked Jehovah to anger.read more.
They forsook Jehovah and served Baal and Ashtaroth.

But the people forgot Jehovah their God. So he let the Philistines and the king of Moab and Sisera, commander of the army of the city of Hazor, fight against your ancestors and conquer them. Again they cried to Jehovah for help! They said: 'We have sinned, because we turned away from you, Jehovah. We worshiped the idols of the Baals and the Ashtoreth (Greek: Astarte). Rescue us from our enemies. We will worship you!'

They forgot his deeds and his miracles that he had shown them. He wrought wonders before their fathers in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan. He divided the sea and caused them to pass through. He made the waters stand up like a heap.read more.
He led them with the cloud by day and with a light of fire by night. He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them abundant drink like the ocean depths. He brought forth streams also from the rock and caused waters to run down like rivers. Yet they still continued to sin against him. They rebelled against the Most High in the desert. In their heart they put God to the test by asking food according to their desire. Then they spoke against God. They said: Can God prepare a table in the wilderness? Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out, and streams were overflowing; Can He give bread also? Will He provide meat for His people?

After Gideon's death the people of Israel were unfaithful to God again. They worshiped the Baals. They made Baal-Berith their god. They no longer served Jehovah their God, who had saved them from all their enemies around them.

But they and our fathers, in their pride, made their necks stiff, and paid no attention to your orders. They would not obey you and gave no thought to the wonders you did among them. They became stubborn and turning away from you. They appointed a leader over themselves to take them back to their prison in Egypt. However, you are a God of forgiveness, full of grace and pity, slow to wrath and great in mercy, and you did not give them up.

Our fathers in Egypt did not understand your wonders. They did not remember your abundant kindnesses. But they rebelled by the Red Sea. Nevertheless he saved them for the sake of his name that he might make his power known. So he rebuked the Red Sea and it dried up, and he led them through the deeps, as through the wilderness.read more.
He saved them from the hand of the one who hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy. The waters covered their adversaries and not one of them was left. Then they believed his words. They sang His praise. They quickly forgot his works and they did not wait for his counsel.

Consider this, you who do not remember God. Otherwise, I will tear you to pieces, and there will be no one to deliver.

But the people forgot Jehovah their God. So he let the Philistines and the king of Moab and Sisera, commander of the army of the city of Hazor, fight against your ancestors and conquer them.

Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation. You have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold. Therefore you will plant pleasant plants and set out foreign (imported) (unusual) seedlings. In that day you will make your plant grow. In the morning you will make your seed flourish; but the harvest will be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

Why have you disobeyed my commands? Why did you do this evil thing? You had Uriah killed in battle! You let the Ammonites kill him. Then you took his wife!

They quickly forgot his works and they did not wait for his counsel. They had an unreasonable desire for food in the wilderness. In the desert they tested God. He gave them what they asked for. He also gave them a degenerative disease.

A voice is heard on the bare hills. It is the crying and the pleading of the people of Israel. They are perverted and have forgotten Jehovah their God.

I warn you: 'If you forget Jehovah your God and worship other gods, you will perish.' Jehovah will destroy you, just as he destroyed the nations you fought. This is because you will not listen to him.

But as for you who forsake Jehovah and forget my holy mountain, which spread a table for the God of Fortune (Babylonian diety) and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny, I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bend down for the slaughter! I called but you did not answer. I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me.

The people of Israel have built palaces, and they have forgotten their maker. The people of Judah have built many fortified cities. I will send a fire on their cities and burn down their palaces.

Beware that you do not forget Jehovah, for he brought you out of Egypt your house of bondage.

Be on your guard! Make sure you do not forget, as long as you live, what you have seen with your own eyes. Teach them to your children and your grandchildren.

When you have eaten all you want, thank Jehovah your God for the good land he has given you. Be careful that you do not forget Jehovah your God. Always obey his judgments and Laws that I give you today. You will eat all you want. You will build nice houses and live in them.read more.
Your herds and flocks, silver and gold, and all that you have will increase. When this happens, be careful that you do not become arrogant and forget Jehovah your God. He brought you out of slavery in Egypt.

Jehovah made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying: You are to have no other gods. You are not to worship them or be their servants or make them offerings. Jehovah took you out of the land of Egypt with his great power and his outstretched arm. He is your God, to whom you are to give worship and make offerings: You are to obey and do forever the law he put in writing for you. You are to have no other gods.read more.
You are to keep in memory the agreement I made with you. You are to have no other gods.

([Psalm of David]) How long, O Jehovah? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

I will ask God, my rock: Why have you forgotten me? Why must I walk around in mourning while the enemy oppresses me? As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me, while they say to me all day long: Where is your God?

Wake up! Why are you sleeping, O Jehovah? Awake! Do not reject us forever! Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our suffering and misery?

Zion replied: Jehovah has forsaken me and Jehovah has forgotten me!

About the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Which (translated) means: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

At the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying: Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? Interpreted it means, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

([Psalm of David]) My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far away from my deliverance, so far away from the words of my moaning?

Jehovah says: Israel, remember this! Remember that you are my servant. I created you to be my servant, and I will never forget you.

Can a woman forget her nursing child? Will she have no compassion on the child from her womb? Although mothers forget, I will not forget you. I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are constantly before me.

For God is not unrighteous (unjust) to forget your work and the love you showed for his name. You ministered to the holy ones and continue to minister.

Forget what happened in the past, and do not dwell on events from long ago.

Brothers, I could not yet have obtained it. But one thing I do, I forget the things that are behind, and stretch forward to the things that are ahead. I press on toward the goal to the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Let those of us who are mature have this attitude. If you have a different attitude God will show you how to think.

Show hospitality to strangers, for some have entertained angels without knowing it.

How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness! How often they caused him grief in the desert! They tested God again and again, and they pushed the Holy One of Israel to the limit. They did not remember his power and the day he freed them from their oppressor,

You will again have compassion on us. You will tread our iniquities under foot. You will throw all our sins into the depths of the sea.

Will anyone tell about your loving kindness in the grave or about your faithfulness after they parish? Will anyone know about your miracles in that dark place or about your righteousness (mercy) in the place of destruction? I cry out to you for help, O Jehovah, and in the morning my prayer will come before you.