32 Bible Verses about Ingratitude

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Genesis 40:23

And the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph, and he will forget him.

Numbers 16:13-14

Is this small that thou broughtest us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that thou ruling also wilt rule over us? But not to a land flowing with milk and honey didst thou bring us; and wilt thou give to us the inheritance of field and vineyard? the eyes of these men wilt thou bore out? we will not come up.

Judges 8:35

And they did not kindness with the house of Jerubbaal, Gideon, according to all the good which he did with Israel.

Judges 9:18

And ye rose up against the house of my father this day, and ye will kill his sons, seventy men, upon one stone; and ye will make Abimelech, son of his maid, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your brother:)

1 Samuel 25:21

(And David said, Surely in vain did I watch all which was to this one in the desert, and not any thing was missed from all which was to him; and he will turn back to me evil for good.

2 Chronicles 24:22

And Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father did with him, and he will kill his son. And in his death he said, Jehovah will see and seek out

Psalm 35:12

They will requite me evil instead of good, bereaving to my soul

Genesis 44:4

They came forth out of the city, they were not far off, and Joseph said to him over his house, Arise, pursue after the men, and having overtaken them, and say to them, For what did ye requite evil for good?

Proverbs 17:13

He turning back evil, instead of good, evil shall not move from his house.

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be requited for good? for they dug a pit for my soul. Remember my standing before thee to speak good for them, to turn back thy wrath from them.

Genesis 3:2-3

And the woman will say to the serpent, From the fruit of the tree of the garden we shall eat And from the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God said, Ye shall not eat from it, and ye shall not touch upon it, lest ye shall die.

Exodus 16:3

And the sons of Israel will say to them, Who will give to die by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt in our sitting by the pot of flesh, in our eating bread to satiety? for ye brought us forth to this desert to kill all this convocation with hunger.

Exodus 17:7

And he will call the name of the place, Temptation, and Strife, for the contention of the sons of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah in the midst of us or not?

Hebrews 3:7-9

Wherefore (as the Holy Spirit says, If to day ye hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the exasperation, in the day of trial in the desert: Where your fathers tried me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Psalm 95:7-9

For he is our God, and we the people of his feeding and the sheep of his hand. This day if ye will, hear to his voice. Ye shall not harden your heart as the strife, as the day of trial in the desert: When your fathers tempted me, they proved me; also they saw my works.

Deuteronomy 32:6

To Jehovah will ye recompense this, A people foolish and not wise? He thy father: did he not buy thee? He made thee, and he will protect thee.

1 Samuel 8:7-8

And Jehovah will say to Samuel, Hear to the voice of the people to all which they will say to thee: for not thee did they reject, but me they rejected from reigning over them. According to all the works which they did from the day I brought them up out of Egypt, and even to this day, and they will forsake me and serve other gods, so they do also to thee.

Nehemiah 9:26

And they will be perverse, and they will rebel against thee, and they will cast thy law behind their back, and they killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they will make great reproaches.

Ezekiel 16:17-19

And thou wilt take all thy ornaments from my gold and from my silver, which I gave to thee, and thou wilt make to thee images of a male and commit fornication with them. And thou wilt take thy garments of variegations and cover them: and thou gavest mine oil and mine incense before them. And my bread which I gave to thee, fine flour and oil and honey I gave thee to eat, and thou didst give it before them for an odor of sweetness: and it will be, says the Lord Jehovah.

Hosea 4:12

My people will ask in their counsel, and with their rod they will announce to them: for the spirit of fornications caused to err, and they will commit fornication from under their God.

Hosea 5:4

They will not give their doings to turn back to their God, for the spirit of fornication is in the midst of them, and they knew not Jehovah.

Hosea 9:1

Thou shalt not rejoice, O Israel; exult not as the peoples: for thou didst commit fornication from thy God; thou didst love a gift upon all the threshing-floors of grain.

Luke 17:15-18

And one of them, having seen that he was healed, turned back, with a great voice honouring God. And he fell upon the face at his feet, thanking him: and he was a Samaritan. And Jesus having answered said, Were not ten cleansed? and where the nine?read more.
They were not found returning to give glory to God, except this of another race.

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Ingratitude » To man, instances of

Numbers 16:13

Is this small that thou broughtest us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that thou ruling also wilt rule over us?

2 Chronicles 24:22

And Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father did with him, and he will kill his son. And in his death he said, Jehovah will see and seek out

Psalm 35:12

They will requite me evil instead of good, bereaving to my soul

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be requited for good? for they dug a pit for my soul. Remember my standing before thee to speak good for them, to turn back thy wrath from them.

1 Samuel 25:21

(And David said, Surely in vain did I watch all which was to this one in the desert, and not any thing was missed from all which was to him; and he will turn back to me evil for good.

Ingratitude » To God

Nehemiah 9:26

And they will be perverse, and they will rebel against thee, and they will cast thy law behind their back, and they killed thy prophets who testified against them to turn them back to thee, and they will make great reproaches.

Deuteronomy 32:6

To Jehovah will ye recompense this, A people foolish and not wise? He thy father: did he not buy thee? He made thee, and he will protect thee.

Ezekiel 16:17-18

And thou wilt take all thy ornaments from my gold and from my silver, which I gave to thee, and thou wilt make to thee images of a male and commit fornication with them. And thou wilt take thy garments of variegations and cover them: and thou gavest mine oil and mine incense before them.

Luke 17:17-18

And Jesus having answered said, Were not ten cleansed? and where the nine? They were not found returning to give glory to God, except this of another race.

Ingratitude » Of man to man » David's companions to david

Psalm 38:20

And mine enemies living, they were strong: and they hating me with falsehood were multiplied.

Psalm 35:11-16

Witnesses of wrong will rise up; they will ask me what I knew not. They will requite me evil instead of good, bereaving to my soul And I, in their being sick, my clothing sackcloth: I humbled my soul in fasting, and my prayer shall be turned back upon my bosom. read more.
As a friend, as a brother to me: I went about as mourning a mother: being darkened, I bowed down. And in my halting they rejoiced, and they were gathered together: they smiting were gathered together against me, and I knew not; they rent asunder and ceased not: With profane mocking parasites, gnashing their teeth against me.

Psalm 109:4-5

For my love they will oppose me: and I for prayer. And they will set against me evil instead of good, and hatred for my love.

Ingratitude » Punishment of

Proverbs 17:13

He turning back evil, instead of good, evil shall not move from his house.

Jeremiah 18:20-21

Shall evil be requited for good? for they dug a pit for my soul. Remember my standing before thee to speak good for them, to turn back thy wrath from them. For this, give their sons to the famine, and pour them out upon the hands of the sword; and their wives shall be bereaved of offspring, and be widows; and their men shall be slain by death; their young men struck of the sword in battle.

Ingratitude » Exemplified » Nabal

1 Samuel 25:21

(And David said, Surely in vain did I watch all which was to this one in the desert, and not any thing was missed from all which was to him; and he will turn back to me evil for good.

1 Samuel 25:5-11

And David will send ten boys, and David will say to the boys, Go up to Cannel and come to Nabal, and ask to him in my name for peace. And say thus to him living, And peace with thee, and to thy house peace, and all which is to thee, peace. And now I heard that shearers were to thee: now the shepherds which are to thee were with us, we harmed them not, and not anything was missing to them all the days of their being in Carmel. read more.
Ask thy boys and they will announce to thee. And the boys will find favor in thine eyes, for upon a good day we come: wilt thou give now what thy hand shall find to thy servants, and to thy son David? And David's boys will come and will speak to Nabal according to all these words in David's name, and they will rest And Nabal will answer David's servants, and say, Who is David? and who the son of Jesse? this day there were many servants breaking away a man from the face of his lord. And took I my bread and my water, and my slaughter which I slaughtered for my shearers, and gave to men whom I knew not from whence they are?

Ingratitude » Often exhibited » To benefactors

Ecclesiastes 9:15

And a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; and not a man remembered that poor man.

Ingratitude » Exemplified » Men of keilah

1 Samuel 23:12

And David will say, Will the lords of Keilah shut me up and my men into the hand of Saul? And Jehovah will say, They will shut up.

1 Samuel 23:5

And David will go, and his men, to Keilah, and he will war against the rovers, and drive away their cattle, and strike against them a great blow. And David will save the inhabitants of Keilah.

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Israelites, to moses

Exodus 16:3

And the sons of Israel will say to them, Who will give to die by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt in our sitting by the pot of flesh, in our eating bread to satiety? for ye brought us forth to this desert to kill all this convocation with hunger.

Exodus 17:2-4

And the people contended with Moses, and they will say, Give to us water and we will drink. And Moses will say to them, Why will ye contend with me, and why will ye tempt Jehovah? And the people will thirst there for water; and the people will murmur against Moses, and will say, For what this did ye bring us up out of Egypt to kill us and our sons and our cattle with thirst? And Moses will cry to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? yet a little and they will stone me.

Numbers 16:12-14

And Moses will send to call for Dathan and for Abiram, sons of Eliab and they will say, We will not come up. Is this small that thou broughtest us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to kill us in the desert, that thou ruling also wilt rule over us? But not to a land flowing with milk and honey didst thou bring us; and wilt thou give to us the inheritance of field and vineyard? the eyes of these men wilt thou bore out? we will not come up.

Ingratitude » A characteristic of the wicked

Psalm 38:20

And mine enemies living, they were strong: and they hating me with falsehood were multiplied.

Ingratitude » Should be met with » Prayer

Psalm 35:12

They will requite me evil instead of good, bereaving to my soul

Ingratitude » Should be met with » Persevering love

Ingratitude » Exemplified » Joash

2 Chronicles 24:22

And Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father did with him, and he will kill his son. And in his death he said, Jehovah will see and seek out

Ingratitude » Of man to man

Proverbs 17:13

He turning back evil, instead of good, evil shall not move from his house.

Ingratitude » Should be met with » Faithfulness

Genesis 31:38-42

These twenty years I am with thee; thy sheep and thy she-goats were not barren, and the rams of thy flock, I ate not. The torn I brought not to thee; I shall bear the blame of it; from my hand thou will seek it, thefts of the day, and thefts of the night I was in the day, the drought consumed me, and cold in the night, and sleep will flee away from mine eyes. read more.
Here to me twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy sheep; and thou wilt change my hire ten portions. If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaak was not with me, then now, empty thou hadst sent me away. My affliction and the labor of my hand God saw and he rebuked yesterday.

Ingratitude » Exemplified » Laban

Genesis 31:6-7

And ye yourselves knew that with all my strength I served, your father, And your father deceived me and changed my wages ten parts; and God gave him not to do evil by me.

Ingratitude » Exemplified » saul

1 Samuel 24:17

And he will say to David, Thou art just above me, for thou didst reward me good and I rewarded thee evil.

Ingratitude » Exemplified » Chief butler

Genesis 40:23

And the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph, and he will forget him.

Ingratitude » Often exhibited » By servants

Job 19:15-16

They sojourning in my house and my maids, mill reckon me for a stranger: I was a foreigner in their eyes. I called to my servant and he will not answer; I shall entreat him with my mouth.

Ingratitude » Often exhibited » To friends in distress

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Men of keilah to david

1 Samuel 23:5-12

And David will go, and his men, to Keilah, and he will war against the rovers, and drive away their cattle, and strike against them a great blow. And David will save the inhabitants of Keilah. And it will be in the fleeing of Abiathar son of Ahimelech, to David to Keilah, he brought down an ephod in his hand. And it will be announced to Saul that David came to Keilah. And Saul will say, God sold him into my hand; for he was shut up, to come to a city of doors and bars. read more.
And Saul will summon all the people to war to go down to Keilah to press against David and against his men. And David knew that Saul was working evil against him; and he will say to Abiathar the priest, Bring near the ephod. And David will say, Jehovah God of Israel, hearing, thy servant heard that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city on account of me. Will the lords of Keilah shut me up in his hand? will Saul come down as thy servant heard? Jehovah God of Israel, announce now to thy servant Jehovah will say, He will come down. And David will say, Will the lords of Keilah shut me up and my men into the hand of Saul? And Jehovah will say, They will shut up.

Ingratitude » Of man to man » David, to uriah

2 Samuel 11:6-17

And David will send to Joab, Send to me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab will send Uriah to David. And Uriah will come to him, and David will ask for peace of Joab, and for the peace of the people, and for the peace of the host And David will say to Uriah, Go down to thy house and wash thy feet And Uriah will go forth from the house of the king and a loan of the king will go forth after him. read more.
And Uriah will lie at the door of the house of the king with all the servants of his lord, and will not go down to his house. And they will announce to David, saying Uriah went not down to his house; and David will say to Uriah, Camest thou not from the way? wherefore wentest thou not down to thy house? And Uriah will say to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, dwell in tents; and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord are encamping upon the face of the field; and shall I come into my house to eat and to drink and to lie with my wife? Thee living and thy soul living, if I shall do this word. And David will say to Uriah, Dwell here also this day, and to-morrow I will send thee away. And Uriah dwelt in Jerusalem in that day and from the morrow. And David will call for him, and he will eat before him and drink; and he will make him drunk: and he will go forth in the evening to lie upon his bed with the servants of his lord; and he will not go down to his house. And it will be in the morning, and David will write a letter to Joab, and send by the hand of Uriah. And he will write in the letter: saying, Bring in Uriah to the front of the face of the strong battle, and turn ye back from after him, and he shall be smitten and die. And it will be in Joab's watching the city, and he will give Uriah to the place where he knew that strong men were there. And the men of the city will go forth and fight with Joab: and there will fall of the people from the servants of David; and Uriah the Hittite also will die.

Ingratitude » Exemplified » Israel

Exodus 17:4

And Moses will cry to Jehovah, saying, What shall I do to this people? yet a little and they will stone me.

Ingratitude » Saints should avoid the guilt of

Psalm 7:4-5

If I rewarded evil him being at peace with me; (and I will deliver mine enemy undeservedly:) The enemy will pursue my soul, and overtake; and he will tread down my life to the earth, and he will cause mine honor to dwell upon the dust Silence.

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Shechemites

Judges 9:17-18

(For my father fought for you, and he will cast his soul away, and he will deliver you from the hand of Midian. And ye rose up against the house of my father this day, and ye will kill his sons, seventy men, upon one stone; and ye will make Abimelech, son of his maid, king over the lords of Shechem, because he is your brother:)

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Citizens

Ecclesiastes 9:14-16

A little city, and men in it few; and a great king came against it, and surrounded it, and built against it great entrenchments: And a poor wise man was found in it, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; and not a man remembered that poor man. And I said, Wisdom is good above strength: and the wisdom of the poor one was despised, and his words not heard.

Ingratitude » Often exhibited » By relations

Ingratitude » Of man to man » David to joab

1 Kings 2:5-6

And also thou knewest what Joab on of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two chiefs of the armies of Israel, to Abner son of Ner, and to Amasa son of Jether; and he will kill them and put the bloods of war in peace, and give the bloods of war upon his girdle which was upon his loins, and in his shoe upon his feet And do according to thy wisdom, and thou wilt not bring down his gray hairs in peace to hades

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Jeremiah's enemies

Jeremiah 18:20

Shall evil be requited for good? for they dug a pit for my soul. Remember my standing before thee to speak good for them, to turn back thy wrath from them.

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Nabal

1 Samuel 25:21

(And David said, Surely in vain did I watch all which was to this one in the desert, and not any thing was missed from all which was to him; and he will turn back to me evil for good.

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Joash

2 Chronicles 24:22

And Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father did with him, and he will kill his son. And in his death he said, Jehovah will see and seek out

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Pharaoh's butler to joseph

Genesis 40:23

And the chief of the cup-bearers did not remember Joseph, and he will forget him.

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Israelites to gideon

Judges 8:35

And they did not kindness with the house of Jerubbaal, Gideon, according to all the good which he did with Israel.

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Saul to david

Ingratitude » Of man to man » Instances of » Laban to jacob

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