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Forgetting God

Passages from across the Bible

Passages on this topic

From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

A characteristic of the wicked

  • Proverbs 2:17 who abandons the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God.
  • Isaiah 65:11 But you who forsake the LORD, who forget My holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,

Backsliders guilty of

  • Jeremiah 2:32 Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
  • Jeremiah 3:21 A voice is heard on the barren heights, the children of Israel weeping and begging for mercy, because they have perverted their ways and forgotten the LORD their God.

Is forgetting his covenant

  • Deuteronomy 4:23 Be careful that you do not forget the covenant of the LORD your God that He made with you; do not make an idol for yourselves in the form of anything He has forbidden you.
  • 2 Kings 17:38 Do not forget the covenant I have made with you. Do not worship other gods,

Works

  • Psalm 78:7 that they should put their confidence in God, not forgetting His works, but keeping His commandments.
  • Psalm 78:11 They forgot what He had done, the wonders He had shown them.
  • Psalm 106:13 Yet they soon forgot His works and failed to wait for His counsel.

Benefits

  • Psalm 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds —
  • Psalm 106:7 Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

Word

  • Hebrews 12:5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
  • James 1:25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — he will be blessed in what he does.

Law

  • Psalm 119:153 Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.
  • Psalm 119:176 I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
  • Hosea 4:6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you as My priests. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.

The people of God

  • Psalm 137:5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem, may my right hand cease to function.

Past deliverances

  • Judges 8:34 The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side.
  • Psalm 78:42 They did not remember His power — the day He redeemed them from the adversary,

Power to deliver

  • Isaiah 51:13–15 But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth. You live in terror all day long because of the fury of the oppressor who is bent on destruction. But where is the fury of the oppressor? The captive will soon be freed; he will not die…

Encouraged by false teachers

  • Jeremiah 23:27 They suppose the dreams that they tell one another will make My people forget My name, just as their fathers forgot My name through the worship of Baal.

Prosperity leads to

  • Deuteronomy 8:12–14 Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of t…
  • Hosea 13:6 When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

Trials should not lead to

  • Psalm 44:17–20 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant. Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path. But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness. If we had forgotten the name of our God or sp…

Resolve against

  • Psalm 119:16 I will delight in Your statutes; I will not forget Your word.
  • Psalm 119:93 I will never forget Your precepts, for by them You have revived me.

Cautions against

  • Deuteronomy 6:12 be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  • Deuteronomy 8:11 Be careful not to forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments and ordinances and statutes, which I am giving you this day.

Exhortation to those guilty of

  • Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:

Punishment of

  • Job 8:12–13 While the shoots are still uncut, they dry up more quickly than grass. Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
  • Psalm 9:17 The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
  • Isaiah 17:10–11 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines — though on the day you plant you make them grow, and on that morning you help your seed sprout — yet the harvest…
  • Ezekiel 23:35 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”
  • Hosea 8:14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

Threatened

  • Job 8:13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
  • Psalm 9:17 The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
  • Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
  • Isaiah 17:10 For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and failed to remember the Rock of your refuge. Therefore, though you cultivate delightful plots and set out cuttings from exotic vines —
  • Jeremiah 2:32 Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
  • Hosea 8:14 Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; Judah has multiplied its fortified cities. But I will send fire upon their cities, and it will consume their citadels.

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Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.