24 Bible Verses About Forgetfulness

Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.

For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers, that floweth with milk and honey; and they shall have eaten and filled themselves, and waxen fat; then will they turn unto other gods, and serve them, and provoke me, and break my covenant.

But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.

Remember, and forget not, how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt, until ye came unto this place, ye have been rebellious against the Lord.

Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage.

And the children of Israel remembered not the Lord their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:

And it shall be, if thou do at all forget the Lord thy God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that ye shall surely perish.

The womb shall forget him; the worm shall feed sweetly on him; he shall be no more remembered; and wickedness shall be broken as a tree.

Until thy brother’s anger turn away from thee, and he forget that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?

How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?

And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgat the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.

Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.

I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:

Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;

Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;

His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten: he hideth his face; he will never see it.

Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons;

And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of mine hand hath gotten me this wealth.

Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.

Yet did not the chief butler remember Joseph, but forgat him.

And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the Lord, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel.