Don’t forget God when you’re young...

Don't Forget God

 

Philippians 3:13 ESV / 30 helpful votes

 

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,

Romans 8:1 ESV / 26 helpful votes

 

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Deuteronomy 4:9 ESV / 26 helpful votes

 

“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children—

1 John 1:9 ESV / 24 helpful votes

 

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Romans 5:8 ESV / 21 helpful votes

 

But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Deuteronomy 8:14 ESV / 21 helpful votes

 

Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Psalm 103:2 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Deuteronomy 8:1-20 ESV / 20 helpful votes

 

“The whole commandment that I command you today you shall be careful to do, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land that the Lord swore to give to your fathers. And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he humbled you and let you hunger and fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothing did not wear out on you and your foot did not swell these forty years. Know then in your heart that, as a man disciplines his son, the Lord your God disciplines you. ...

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

2 John 1:8 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

Watch yourselves, so that you may not lose what we have worked for, but may win a full reward.

Ephesians 4:32 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Deuteronomy 6:12 ESV / 19 helpful votes

 

Then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

John 3:16 ESV / 18 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Philippians 3:13-14 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Psalm 9:17 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

The wicked shall return to Sheol, all the nations that forget God.

Deuteronomy 8:11 ESV / 17 helpful votes

 

“Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today,

Luke 6:38 ESV / 16 helpful votes

 

Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Psalm 50:22 ESV / 16 helpful votes

 

“Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!

Deuteronomy 4:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes

 

Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything that the Lord your God has forbidden you.

Hebrews 8:12 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”

Galatians 2:20 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

Matthew 6:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

But if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Isaiah 43:25 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

Isaiah 43:18-19 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.

Psalm 45:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear: forget your people and your father's house,

2 Kings 17:38 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

And you shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you. You shall not fear other gods,

Deuteronomy 9:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day you came out of the land of Egypt until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against the Lord.

Deuteronomy 4:31 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

For the Lord your God is a merciful God. He will not leave you or destroy you or forget the covenant with your fathers that he swore to them.

Genesis 41:51 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh. “For,” he said, “God has made me forget all my hardship and all my father's house.”

Genesis 27:45 ESV / 15 helpful votes

 

Until your brother's anger turns away from you, and he forgets what you have done to him. Then I will send and bring you from there. Why should I be bereft of you both in one day?”

Hebrews 10:17 ESV / 14 helpful votes

 

Then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”

Hebrews 6:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

 

For God is not unjust so as to overlook your work and the love that you have shown for his name in serving the saints, as you still do.

Psalm 78:7 ESV / 14 helpful votes

 

So that they should set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments;

Psalm 59:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

 

Kill them not, lest my people forget; make them totter by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield!

1 John 4:19 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

We love because he first loved us.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Psalm 10:12 ESV / 13 helpful votes

 

Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up your hand; forget not the afflicted.

Romans 8:28 ESV / 11 helpful votes

 

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

2 Corinthians 12:9-10 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 14:28 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?

Mark 4:1-41 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them: “Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. Other seed fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil, and immediately it sprang up, since it had no depth of soil. ...

Matthew 6:25-34 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ...

Matthew 6:14 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you,

Proverbs 30:9 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Lest I be full and deny you and say, “Who is the Lord?” or lest I be poor and steal and profane the name of my God.

Proverbs 22:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.

Psalm 74:23 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Do not forget the clamor of your foes, the uproar of those who rise against you, which goes up continually!

Psalm 74:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Do not deliver the soul of your dove to the wild beasts; do not forget the life of your poor forever.

Psalm 13:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

Psalm 9:12 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

For he who avenges blood is mindful of them; he does not forget the cry of the afflicted.

Job 24:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

The womb forgets them; the worm finds them sweet; they are no longer remembered, so wickedness is broken like a tree.’

Job 11:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.

Job 9:27 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and be of good cheer,’

Job 8:13 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Such are the paths of all who forget God; the hope of the godless shall perish.

1 Samuel 1:11 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

And she vowed a vow and said, “O Lord of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant, but will give to your servant a son, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and no razor shall touch his head.”

Deuteronomy 25:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

Therefore when the Lord your God has given you rest from all your enemies around you, in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance to possess, you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you shall not forget.

Deuteronomy 8:19 ESV / 10 helpful votes

 

And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish.

1 John 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Romans 8:38-39 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Luke 6:20-21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you shall be satisfied. “Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.

Mark 5:1-43 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

They came to the other side of the sea, to the country of the Gerasenes. And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs. And no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain, for he had often been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains apart, and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always crying out and cutting himself with stones. ...

Mark 2:1-28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

And when he returned to Capernaum after some days, it was reported that he was at home. And many were gathered together, so that there was no more room, not even at the door. And he was preaching the word to them. And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men. And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” ...

Matthew 18:22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Zephaniah 3:17 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.

Micah 7:18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.

Isaiah 51:13 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

And have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor?

Proverbs 22:22-23 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate, for the Lord will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.

Proverbs 22:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.

Proverbs 14:31 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his Maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.

Proverbs 14:21 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.

Psalm 109:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Help me, O Lord my God! Save me according to your steadfast love!

Psalm 103:12 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...

Psalm 73:28 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

But for me it is good to be near God; I have made the Lord God my refuge, that I may tell of all your works.

Deuteronomy 15:10-11 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’

Deuteronomy 15:7-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be.

Numbers 15:39 ESV / 8 helpful votes

 

And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the Lord, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.

1 John 4:16 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

Colossians 3:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Luke 17:3-4 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

Pay attention to yourselves! If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him, and if he sins against you seven times in the day, and turns to you seven times, saying, ‘I repent,’ you must forgive him.”

Mark 11:25 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

And whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone, so that your Father also who is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.”

Matthew 6:14-15 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

For if you forgive others their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you, but if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

Isaiah 43:25-26 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins. Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.

Isaiah 1:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

 

“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.

Isaiah 51:12-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass, and have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor?

Deuteronomy 8:19-20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And if you forget the Lord your God and go after other gods and serve them and worship them, I solemnly warn you today that you shall surely perish. Like the nations that the Lord makes to perish before you, so shall you perish, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 8:10-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

And you shall eat and be full, and you shall bless the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. “Take care lest you forget the Lord your God by not keeping his commandments and his rules and his statutes, which I command you today, lest, when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and live in them, and when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery,

Deuteronomy 6:10-12 ESV / 3 helpful votes

 

“And when the Lord your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full, then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

1 John 4:7-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

James 1:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Hebrews 10:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

 

For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.