In Scripture, forgetting is often seen as a failure to remember and apply God's teachings and promises. The prophet Jeremiah laments that God's people can forget their covenant Lord, and James warns against being hearers who forget, emphasizing the importance of putting God's word into practice. The apostle Paul, in Philippians, encourages believers to forget what is behind and press on towards the future, while Hebrews notes that God promises to forget His people's sins. Through faith in Christ, believers become new creations, as 2 Corinthians teaches, and are empowered to remember and live out their new identity.
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Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize of God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
Does a maiden forget her jewelry or a bride her wedding sash? Yet My people have forgotten Me for days without number.
Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves. For anyone who hears the word but does not carry it out is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror, and after observing himself goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. 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.
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.
Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead,
“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old. Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.