Bible Verses About Forgetting
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for forgetting, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 459 votes, led by Philippians 3:13-14. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Forgetting
Philippians 3:13-1459 votes
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Jeremiah 2:3235 votes
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Hebrews 8:1229 votes
For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
James 1:22-2529 votes
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
2 Corinthians 5:1724 votes
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
Isaiah 43:2523 votes
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
1 John 1:923 votes
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Jeremiah 31:3422 votes
And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
Romans 8:121 votes
There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
Philippians 3:1319 votes
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,
Isaiah 43:18-1918 votes
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
Hebrews 10:1717 votes
And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
Isaiah 43:1815 votes
Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.
1 Timothy 4:714 votes
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Colossians 3:1313 votes
Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Luke 9:6212 votes
And Jesus said unto him, No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.
Romans 12:1-212 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 Kings 17:3811 votes
And the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods.
Mark 11:2511 votes
And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.
Galatians 2:2011 votes
I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
Ephesians 4:31-3211 votes
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
Psalms 103:1210 votes
As far as the east is from the west, so far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
Luke 9:2310 votes
And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
Philippians 3:1210 votes
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
What does the Bible say about forgetting?
Readers most often cite Philippians 3:13-14 on the subject of forgetting. Across 459 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Jeremiah 2:32, Hebrews 8:12, James 1:22-25. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.