Memorial Study: Verses
Collected by Tim Estes
“Memorial Study: Verses” searched the English Standard Version for “Memorial”, “Remind, -er, -ed”, and “Remember”. Some were catagorized.
Memorial
- Defined:
Dictionary.com = something designed to preserve the memory of a person, event, etc., as a monument or a holiday.
Webster.com = something that keeps remembrance alive: such as a) monument; b) something (such as a speech or ceremony) that commemorates; c) keepsake, memento
- Exodus 12:13-14 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. (14) “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
- Exodus 13:9 And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 17:11-14 Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. (12) But Moses’ hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun. (13) And Joshua overwhelmed Amalek and his people with the sword. (14) Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- Memorial portion of a burnt offering:
- Lev 2:2,9, 16; 5:12; 6:15; 24:7
- Num 5.26
- Leviticus 23:24-25 “Speak to the people of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a day of solemn rest, a memorial proclaimed with blast of trumpets, a holy convocation. (25) You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the LORD.” (Feast of Trumpets)
- Numbers 31:51-54 And Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them the gold, all crafted articles. (52) And all the gold of the contribution that they presented to the LORD, from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, was 16,750 shekels. (53) (The men in the army had each taken plunder for himself.) (54) And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, as a memorial for the people of Israel before the LORD.
- Joshua 4:3-7 and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests’ feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’” (4) Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe. (5) And Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up each of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, (6) that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’ (7) then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial ”
- Isaiah 57:1-8 The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity; (2) he enters into peace; they rest in their beds who walk in their uprightness. (3) But you, draw near, sons of the sorceress, offspring of the adulterer and the loose woman. (4) Whom are you mocking? Against whom do you open your mouth wide and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, the offspring of deceit, (5) you who burn with lust among the oaks, under every green tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks? (6) Among the smooth stones of the valley is your portion; they, they, are your lot; to them you have poured out a drink offering, you have brought a grain offering. Shall I relent for these things? (7) On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice. (8) Behind the door and the doorpost you have set up your memorial; for, deserting me, you have uncovered your bed, you have gone up to it, you have made it wide; and you have made a covenant for yourself with them, you have loved their bed, you have looked on nakedness.
- Isaiah 66:1-3 Thus says the LORD: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool; what is the house that you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest? (2) All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the LORD. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. (3) “He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck; he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers pig’s blood; he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol. These have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations;
- Hosea 12:2-6 The LORD has an indictment against Judah and will punish Jacob according to his ways; he will repay him according to his deeds. (3) In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and in his manhood he strove with God. (4) He strove with the angel and prevailed; he wept and sought his favor. He met God at Bethel, and there God spoke with us— (5) the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD is his memorial name: (6) “So you, by the help of your God, return, hold fast to love and justice, and wait continually for your God.”
- Acts 10:3-4 About the ninth hour of the day he saw clearly in a vision an angel of God come in and say to him, “Cornelius.” (4) And he stared at him in terror and said, “What is it, Lord?” And he said to him, “Your prayers and your alms have ascended as a memorial before God.
Memory
- Exodus 17:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book and recite it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”
- See under Memorial for verses 11-14
- Deuteronomy 25:17-19 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, (18) how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God. (19) 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 32:25-27 Outdoors the sword shall bereave, and indoors terror, for young man and woman alike, the nursing child with the man of gray hairs. (26) I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,” (27) had I not feared provocation by the enemy, lest their adversaries should misunderstand, lest they should say, “Our hand is triumphant, it was not the LORD who did all this.”’
- Job 18:17 His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
- Job 18:21 Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous, such is the place of him who knows not God.”
- Psalms 9:6 The enemy came to an end in everlasting ruins; their cities you rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.
- Psalms 34:16 The face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to cut off the memory of them from the earth.
- See Job 18;17, 21 above
- Psalms 109:14-15 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out! (15) Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth!
- Proverbs 10:7 The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.
- Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. (6) Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.
- Matthew 26:12-13 In pouring this ointment on my body, she has done it to prepare me for burial. (13) Truly, I say to you, wherever this gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will also be told in memory of her.”
- Mark 14:8-9 She has done what she could; she has anointed my body beforehand for burial. (9) And truly, I say to you, wherever the gospel is proclaimed in the whole world, what she has done will be told in memory of her.”
Remind
- Psalms 71:15-16 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts, of your deeds of salvation all the day, for their number is past my knowledge. (16) With the mighty deeds of the Lord GOD I will come; I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
- 1 Corinthians 4:16-17 I urge you, then, be imitators of me. (17) That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
- 1 Corinthians 15:1 Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand,
- 2 Corinthians 10:7 Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ’s, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ’s, so also are we.
- 2 Timothy 1:3-6 I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. (4) As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy. (5) I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well. (6) For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
- 2 Timothy 2:14 Remind them of these things, and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers.
- Titus 3:1 Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
- 2 Peter 1:10-12 Therefore, brothers, be all the more diligent to confirm your calling and election, for if you practice these qualities you will never fall. (11) For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (12) Therefore I intend always to remind you of these qualities, though you know them and are established in the truth that you have.
- The qualities he was reminding them about were:
- 2 Peter 1:5-9 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, (6) and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, (7) and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. (8) For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. (9) For whoever lacks these qualities is so nearsighted that he is blind, having forgotten that he was cleansed from his former sins.
- Jude 1:5 Now I want to remind you, although you once fully knew it, that Jesus, who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
Reminded
- 2 Timothy 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
- For more, see Remind, 2 Tim 1:3-6
Reminder
- Numbers 10:10 On the day of your gladness also, and at your appointed feasts and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings. They shall be a reminder of you before your God: I am the LORD your God.”
- Numbers 16:30-40 But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD.” (31) And as soon as he had finished speaking all these words, the ground under them split apart. (32) And the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and all the people who belonged to Korah and all their goods. (33) So they and all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol, and the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly. (34) And all Israel who were around them fled at their cry, for they said, “Lest the earth swallow us up!” (35) And fire came out from the LORD and consumed the 250 men offering the incense. (36) Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, (37) “Tell Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers out of the blaze. Then scatter the fire far and wide, for they have become holy. (38) As for the censers of these men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar, for they offered them before the LORD, and they became holy. Thus they shall be a sign to the people of Israel.” (39) So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, which those who were burned had offered, and they were hammered out as a covering for the altar, (40) to be a reminder to the people of Israel, so that no outsider, who is not of the descendants of Aaron, should draw near to burn incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his company—as the LORD said to him through Moses.
- Zechariah 6:14 And the crown shall be in the temple of the LORD as a reminder to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen the son of Zephaniah.
- Romans 15:14-15 I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another. (15) But on some points I have written to you very boldly by way of reminder, because of the grace given me by God
- Hebrews 10:1-3 For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. (2) Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? (3) But in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year.
- 2 Peter 1:13 I think it right, as long as I am in this body, to stir you up by way of reminder,
- For more see Remind, 2 Peter 1:10-12
- 2 Peter 3:1-2 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, (2) that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,
Remember
God doing the remembering
- Genesis 9:15-16 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh. (16) When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”
- Leviticus 26:40-42 “But if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me, (41) so that I walked contrary to them and brought them into the land of their enemies—if then their uncircumcised heart is humbled and they make amends for their iniquity, (42) then I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and I will remember my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.
- Leviticus 26:44-45 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not spurn them, neither will I abhor them so as to destroy them utterly and break my covenant with them, for I am the LORD their God. (45) But I will for their sake remember the covenant with their forefathers, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am the LORD.”
- Jeremiah 2:2 “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
- Jeremiah 14:10 Thus says the LORD concerning this people: “They have loved to wander thus; they have not restrained their feet; therefore the LORD does not accept them; now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins.”
- Jeremiah 31:20 Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he my darling child? For as often as I speak against him, I do remember him Therefore my heart yearns for him; I will surely have mercy on him, declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 31:34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
- Jeremiah 44:21 “As for the offerings that you offered in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings and your officials, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them? Did it not come into his mind?
- Ezekiel 16:59-60 “For thus says the Lord GOD: I will deal with you as you have done, you who have despised the oath in breaking the covenant, (60) yet I will remember my covenant with you in the days of your youth, and I will establish for you an everlasting covenant.
- Hosea 7:2 But they do not consider that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.
- Hosea 8:13 As for my sacrificial offerings, they sacrifice meat and eat it, but the LORD does not accept them. Now he will remember their iniquity and punish their sins; they shall return to Egypt.
- Hosea 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.
- Luke 1:72 to show the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember his holy covenant,
- Zechariah’s prophesy about his son John the Baptist.
- Hebrews 8:11-12 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest. (12) For I will be merciful toward their iniquities, and I will remember their sins no more.”
- Hebrews 10:16-17 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my laws on their hearts, and write them on their minds,” (17) then he adds, “I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no more.”
God commanding someone to remember
- Exodus 20:8 “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Numbers 15:37-41 The LORD said to Moses, (38) “Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. (39) 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. (40) So you shall remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God. (41) I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God: I am the LORD your God.”
- Job 41:7-8 Can you fill his skin with harpoons or his head with fishing spears? (8) Lay your hands on him; remember the battle—you will not do it again!
- Isaiah 43:16-19 Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters, (17) who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior; they lie down, they cannot rise, they are extinguished, quenched like a wick: (18) “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old. (19) 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.
- Isaiah 44:21 Remember these things, O Jacob, and Israel, for you are my servant; I formed you; you are my servant; O Israel, you will not be forgotten by me.
- Isaiah 46:7-9 They lift it to their shoulders, they carry it, they set it in its place, and it stands there; it cannot move from its place. If one cries to it, it does not answer or save him from his trouble. (8) “Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, (9) remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me,
- Ezekiel 23:27 Thus I will put an end to your lewdness and your whoring begun in the land of Egypt, so that you shall not lift up your eyes to them or remember Egypt anymore.
- Micah 6:5 O my people, remember what Balak king of Moab devised, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him, and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal, that you may know the righteous acts of the LORD.”
- Malachi 4:4 “Remember the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.
- Revelation 2:5 Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
- Revelation 3:3 Remember, then, what you received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If you will not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come against you.
Men wanting something remembered
- Genesis 40:13-15 In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your office, and you shall place Pharaoh’s cup in his hand as formerly, when you were his cupbearer. (14) Only remember me, when it is well with you, and please do me the kindness to mention me to Pharaoh, and so get me out of this house. (15) For I was indeed stolen out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”
- Genesis 40:23 Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.
- Exodus 13:3-5 Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the LORD brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. (4) Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out. (5) And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month.
- Exodus 32:11-13 But Moses implored the LORD his God and said, “O LORD, why does your wrath burn hot against your people, whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand? (12) Why should the Egyptians say, ‘With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people. (13) Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, ‘I will multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have promised I will give to your offspring, and they shall inherit it forever.’”
- Numbers 11:4-5 Now the rabble that was among them had a strong craving. And the people of Israel also wept again and said, “Oh that we had meat to eat! (5) We remember the fish we ate in Egypt that cost nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic.
- Deuteronomy 5:15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 8:2 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.
- Deuteronomy 8:17-18 Beware lest you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gotten me this wealth.’ (18) You shall remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth, that he may confirm his covenant that he swore to your fathers, as it is this day.
- Deuteronomy 9:7 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 9:27-29 Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Do not regard the stubbornness of this people, or their wickedness or their sin, (28) lest the land from which you brought us say, “Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land that he promised them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to put them to death in the wilderness.” (29) For they are your people and your heritage, whom you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.’
- Deuteronomy 15:15 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.
- Deuteronomy 16:3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. Seven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 16:12 You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
- Deuteronomy 24:9 Remember what the LORD your God did to Miriam on the way as you came out of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 24:18 but you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.
- Deuteronomy 24:22 You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.
- Deuteronomy 25:17-18 “Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you came out of Egypt, (18) how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.
- For more, see Memory, Deut 25:17-19
- Deuteronomy 32:7 Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
- Joshua 1:13 “Remember the word that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, ‘The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land.’
- Judges 9:1-2 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother’s relatives and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother’s family, (2) “Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”
- Judges 16:28 Then Samson called to the LORD and said, “O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.”
- 1 Samuel 1:11 And she (Hannah) 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.”
- 1 Samuel 25:30-32 And when the LORD has done to my lord according to all the good that he has spoken concerning you and has appointed you prince over Israel, (31) my lord shall have no cause of grief or pangs of conscience for having shed blood without cause or for my lord working salvation himself. And when the LORD has dealt well with my lord, then remember your servant.” (32) And David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who sent you this day to meet me!
- 2 Kings 9:25-26 Jehu said to Bidkar his aide, “Take him up and throw him on the plot of ground belonging to Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember, when you and I rode side by side behind Ahab his father, how the LORD made this pronouncement against him: (26) ‘As surely as I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons—declares the LORD—I will repay you on this plot of ground.’ Now therefore take him up and throw him on the plot of ground, in accordance with the word of the LORD.”
- 2 Kings 20:3 “Now, O LORD, please remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- 1 Chronicles 16:12 Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered,
- 1 Chronicles 16:15 Remember his covenant forever, the word that he commanded, for a thousand generations,
- 2 Chronicles 6:42 O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant.”
- Solomon’s prayer at Dedication of Temple
- Nehemiah 1:7-8 We have acted very corruptly against you and have not kept the commandments, the statutes, and the rules that you commanded your servant Moses. (8) Remember the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples,
- Nehemiah 4:13-14 So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. (14) And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
- Nehemiah 5:19 Remember for my good, O my God, all that I have done for this people.
- Nehemiah 6:14 Remember Tobiah and Sanballat, O my God, according to these things that they did, and also the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets who wanted to make me afraid.
- Nehemiah 13:14 Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and do not wipe out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God and for his service.
- Nehemiah 13:22 Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.
- Nehemiah 13:28-31 And one of the sons of Jehoiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was the son-in-law of Sanballat the Horonite. Therefore I chased him from me. (29) Remember them, O my God, because they have desecrated the priesthood and the covenant of the priesthood and the Levites. (30) Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work; (31) and I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
- Job 4:7 “Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
- Eliphaz to Job
- Job 7:7 “Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
- Job speaking
- Job 10:9 Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
- Job speaking
- Job 11:16 You will forget your misery; you will remember it as waters that have passed away.
- Zophar to Job
- Job 14:13 Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, that you would conceal me until your wrath be past, that you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Job speaking
- Job 21:5-6 Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. (6) When I remember, I am dismayed, and shuddering seizes my flesh.
- Job speaking
- Job 36:24 “Remember to extol his work, of which men have sung.
- Elihu to Job
- For God’s response to Job, see Remember > God commanding someone to remember > Job 41:7-8
- Psalms 20:3 May he remember all your offerings and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah
- Psalms 22:27 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the LORD, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.
- Psalms 25:6 Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old.
- Psalms 74:1-2 A Maskil of Asaph. O God, why do you cast us off forever? Why does your anger smoke against the sheep of your pasture? (2) Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
- Psalms 74:18 Remember this, O LORD, how the enemy scoffs, and a foolish people reviles your name.
- Psalms 74:22 Arise, O God, defend your cause; remember how the foolish scoff at you all the day!
- Psalms 89:46-47 How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? How long will your wrath burn like fire? (47) Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
- Psalms 89:50 Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked, and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,
- Psalms 105:5 Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles, and the judgments he uttered,
- Psalms 106:4 Remember me, O LORD, when you show favor to your people; help me when you save them,
- Psalms 119:49 Zayin Remember your word to your servant, in which you have made me hope.
- Psalms 119:55 I remember your name in the night, O LORD, and keep your law.
- Psalms 132:1 A Song of Ascents. Remember, O LORD, in David’s favor, all the hardships he endured,
- Psalms 137:7 Remember, O LORD, against the Edomites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, “Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundations!”
- Psalms 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all that you have done; I ponder the work of your hands.
- Proverbs 31:6-7 Give strong drink to the one who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress; (7) let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
- Ecclesiastes 11:8 So if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many. All that comes is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”;
- Isaiah 38:3 and said, “Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before you in faithfulness and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
- Isaiah 64:4-5 From of old no one has heard or perceived by the ear, no eye has seen a God besides you, who acts for those who wait for him. (5) You meet him who joyfully works righteousness, those who remember you in your ways. Behold, you were angry, and we sinned; in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?
- Jeremiah 14:21 Do not spurn us, for your name’s sake; do not dishonor your glorious throne; remember and do not break your covenant with us.
- Jeremiah 15:15 O LORD, you know; remember me and visit me, and take vengeance for me on my persecutors. In your forbearance take me not away; know that for your sake I bear reproach.
- Jeremiah 18:20 Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for my life. Remember how I stood before you to speak good for them, to turn away your wrath from them.
- Jeremiah 51:50 “You who have escaped from the sword, go, do not stand still! Remember the LORD from far away, and let Jerusalem come into your mind:
- Lamentations 3:19 Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall!
- Lamentations 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!
- Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard the report of you, and your work, O LORD, do I fear. In the midst of the years revive it; in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember mercy.
- Luke 16:25 But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.
- Luke 17:32 Remember Lot’s wife.
- Luke 23:42-43 And he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.” (43) And he said to him, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise.”
- Luke 24:6-7 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how he told you, while he was still in Galilee, (7) that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”
- John 15:20 Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
- John 16:4 But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.
- Acts 20:35 In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
- Romans 11:17-18 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, (18) do not be arrogant toward the branches. If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.
- Galatians 2:9-10 and when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. (10) Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
- Ephesians 2:11-12 Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh, called “the uncircumcision” by what is called the circumcision, which is made in the flesh by hands— (12) remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
- Colossians 4:18 I, Paul, write this greeting with my own hand. Remember my chains. Grace be with you.
- 2 Thessalonians 2:5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things?
- 2 Timothy 2:8 Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
- Hebrews 13:3 Remember those who are in prison, as though in prison with them, and those who are mistreated, since you also are in the body.
- Hebrews 13:7 Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God. Consider the outcome of their way of life, and imitate their faith.
- 2 Peter 3:1-2 This is now the second letter that I am writing to you, beloved. In both of them I am stirring up your sincere mind by way of reminder, (2) that you should remember the predictions of the holy prophets and the commandment of the Lord and Savior through your apostles,
- Jude 1:17 But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Failing to Remember
- Judges 8:34 And the people of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had delivered them from the hand of all their enemies on every side,
- 2 Samuel 19:18-19 and they crossed the ford to bring over the king’s household and to do his pleasure. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was about to cross the Jordan, (19) and said to the king, “Let not my lord hold me guilty or remember how your servant did wrong on the day my lord the king left Jerusalem. Do not let the king take it to heart.
- 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 Then the Spirit of God clothed Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, and he stood above the people, and said to them, “Thus says God, ‘Why do you break the commandments of the LORD, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the LORD, he has forsaken you.’” (21) But they conspired against him, and by command of the king they stoned him with stones in the court of the house of the LORD. (22) Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness that Jehoiada, Zechariah’s father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the LORD see and avenge!”
- Psalms 25:7 Remember not the sins of my youth or my transgressions; according to your steadfast love remember me, for the sake of your goodness, O LORD!
- Psalms 78:41-42 They tested God again and again and provoked the Holy One of Israel. (42) They did not remember his power or the day when he redeemed them from the foe,
- Psalms 79:8 Do not remember against us our former iniquities; let your compassion come speedily to meet us, for we are brought very low.
- Psalms 106:7 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
- Psalms 106:7 Our fathers, when they were in Egypt, did not consider your wondrous works; they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love, but rebelled by the sea, at the Red Sea.
- Psalms 109:15-16 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth! (16) For he did not remember to show kindness, but pursued the poor and needy and the brokenhearted, to put them to death.
- Psalms 137:6 Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember you, if I do not set Jerusalem above my highest joy!
- Isaiah 43:25 “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.
- Isaiah 47:7 You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.
- Isaiah 54:4 “Fear not, for you will not be ashamed; be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced; for you will forget the shame of your youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.
- Isaiah 57:11 Whom did you dread and fear, so that you lied, and did not remember me, did not lay it to heart? Have I not held my peace, even for a long time, and you do not fear me?
- Isaiah 64:9 Be not so terribly angry, O LORD, and remember not iniquity Behold, please look, we are all your people.
- Ezekiel 16:22 And in all your abominations and your whorings you did not remember the days of your youth, when you were naked and bare, wallowing in your blood.
- Amos 1:9 Thus says the LORD: “For three transgressions of Tyre, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they delivered up a whole people to Edom, and did not remember the covenant of brotherhood.
- Matthew 16:9 Do you not yet perceive? Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you gathered?
- Mark 8:17-18 And Jesus, aware of this, said to them, “Why are you discussing the fact that you have no bread? Do you not yet perceive or understand? Are your hearts hardened? (18) Having eyes do you not see, and having ears do you not hear? And do you not remember?
Someone “remember”-ing
- Genesis 41:9 Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “I remember my offenses today.
- Psalms 42:4 These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.
- Psalms 42:6 and my God. My soul is cast down within me; therefore I remember you from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
- Psalms 63:5-7 My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, (6) when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; (7) for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.
- Psalms 77:3-6 When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah (4) You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak. (5) I consider the days of old, the years long ago. (6) I said, “Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart.” Then my spirit made a diligent search:
- Psalms 77:11 I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old.
- Psalms 103:17-18 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children’s children, (18) to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.
- Ecclesiastes 5:20 For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.
- Jeremiah 17:2 while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,
- Ezekiel 6:8-9 “Yet I will leave some of you alive. When you have among the nations some who escape the sword, and when you are scattered through the countries, (9) then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
- Ezekiel 16:61-63 Then you will remember your ways and be ashamed when you take your sisters, both your elder and your younger, and I give them to you as daughters, but not on account of the covenant with you. (62) I will establish my covenant with you, and you shall know that I am the LORD, (63) that you may remember and be confounded, and never open your mouth again because of your shame, when I atone for you for all that you have done, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 20:43 And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
- Ezekiel 36:31 Then you will remember your evil ways, and your deeds that were not good, and you will loathe yourselves for your iniquities and your abominations.
- Zechariah 10:9 Though I scattered them among the nations, yet in far countries they shall remember me, and with their children they shall live and return.
- Matthew 5:23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
- Matthew 27:63 and said, “Sir, we remember how that impostor said, while he was still alive, ‘After three days I will rise.’
- 1 Corinthians 11:2 Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:9 For you remember, brothers, our labor and toil: we worked night and day, that we might not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:6 But now that Timothy has come to us from you, and has brought us the good news of your faith and love and reported that you always remember us kindly and long to see us, as we long to see you—
- 2 Timothy 1:3-4 I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day. (4) As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy.
- Philemon 1:4 I thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,
- Paul remembering Philemon
Unclassified “remember”
- Psalms 88:4-5 I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, (5) like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand.