28 Bible Verses about Forgetting Things

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Genesis 27:45

Stay there until your brother's anger against you subsides and he forgets what you did to him. Then I'll send someone to bring you back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?"

Genesis 41:30

But seven years of famine will occur after them, and all the abundance will be forgotten in the land of Egypt. The famine will devastate the land.

Lamentations 3:17

I am deprived of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is.

Lamentations 2:6

(Vav) He destroyed his temple as if it were a vineyard; he destroyed his appointed meeting place. The Lord has made those in Zion forget both the festivals and the Sabbaths. In his fierce anger he has spurned both king and priest.

Jeremiah 44:9

Have you forgotten all the wicked things that have been done in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem by your ancestors, by the kings of Judah and their wives, by you and your wives?

Ezekiel 39:26

They will bear their shame for all their unfaithful acts against me, when they live securely on their land with no one to make them afraid.

Amos 1:9

This is what the Lord says: "Because Tyre has committed three crimes -- make that four! -- I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They sold a whole community to Edom; they failed to observe a treaty of brotherhood.

Hebrews 12:5

And have you forgotten the exhortation addressed to you as sons? "My son, do not scorn the Lord's discipline or give up when he corrects you.

2 Peter 1:9

But concerning the one who lacks such things -- he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.

James 1:24

For he gazes at himself and then goes out and immediately forgets what sort of person he was.

James 1:25

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out -- he will be blessed in what he does.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, 'I will rule forever as permanent queen!' You did not think about these things; you did not consider how it would turn out.

Jeremiah 3:16

In those days, your population will greatly increase in the land. At that time," says the Lord, "people will no longer talk about having the ark that contains the Lord's covenant with us. They will not call it to mind, remember it, or miss it. No, that will not be done any more!

Psalm 137:5

If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand be crippled!

Psalm 137:6

May my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, and do not give Jerusalem priority over whatever gives me the most joy.

Proverbs 31:5

lest they drink and forget what is decreed, and remove from all the poor their legal rights.

Genesis 41:51

Joseph named the firstborn Manasseh, saying, "Certainly God has made me forget all my trouble and all my father's house."

Isaiah 54:4

Don't be afraid, for you will not be put to shame! Don't be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated! You will forget about the shame you experienced in your youth; you will no longer remember the disgrace of your abandonment.

2 Samuel 19:19

He said to the king, "Don't think badly of me, my lord, and don't recall the sin of your servant on the day when you, my lord the king, left Jerusalem! Please don't call it to mind!

Job 11:16

For you will forget your trouble; you will remember it like water that has flowed away.

Ecclesiastes 5:20

For he does not think much about the fleeting days of his life because God keeps him preoccupied with the joy he derives from his activity.

Philippians 3:13

Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself to have attained this. Instead I am single-minded: Forgetting the things that are behind and reaching out for the things that are ahead,

Matthew 16:5

When the disciples went to the other side, they forgot to take bread.

Mark 8:14

Now they had forgotten to take bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat.

Job 39:15

She forgets that a foot might crush them, or that a wild animal might trample them.

Job 39:17

For God deprived her of wisdom, and did not impart understanding to her.

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