Thematic Bible: Forgetfulness
Thematic Bible
Careless hearing » Forgetfulness
For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like.
Forgetfulness » Prosperity tends to
then beware that you do not forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Verse Concepts
And when the Lord your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you, with great and goodly cities which you did not build, And houses full of all good things which you did not fill, and cisterns hewn out which you did not hew, and vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant, and when you eat and are full,
“Beware that you do not forget the Lord your God by failing to keep His commandments and His judgments (precepts) and His statutes which I am commanding you today;
And the Israelites did not remember the Lord their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side;
Forgetfulness » Fate of those guilty of
The wicked will turn to Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead),
Even all the nations who forget God.
“Now consider this, you who forget God,
Or I will tear you in pieces, and there will be no one to rescue [you].
And they forgot His [incredible] works
And His miraculous wonders that He had shown them.
Because you [Judah] have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the Rock of your Stronghold—
Therefore you plant
And set the grounds with vine slips of a strange god,
Forgetfulness » Ends in bitter tears
A voice is heard on the barren heights,
The weeping and pleading of the children of Israel,
Because they have lost their way,
They have [deliberately] forgotten the Lord their God.
Forgetfulness » Need of watchfulness against
“Only pay attention and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things which your eyes have seen and they do not depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your grandchildren [impressing these things on their mind and penetrating their heart with these truths]—
Verse Concepts
Forgetfulness » Begets moral cowardice
That you have forgotten the Lord your Maker,
Who stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth,
That you continually tremble with fear all day long because of the rage of the oppressor,
As he takes aim to destroy?
And where is the rage of the oppressor?
Hearing » Careless, characteristics of » Forgetfulness
For if anyone only listens to the Word without obeying it and being a doer of it, he is like a man who looks carefully at his [own] natural face in a mirror; For he thoughtfully observes himself, and then goes off and promptly forgets what he was like.