Ingratitude to God

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Romans 1:21 NT

  Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

• Isaiah 1:2 OT

  Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

• Isaiah 1:3 OT

  The ox knows his owner, and the donkey his master’s crib; but Israel doesn’t know. My people don’t consider.”

• Jeremiah 2:5 OT

  Yahweh says, “What unrighteousness have your fathers found in me, that they have gone far from me, and have walked after worthless vanity, and have become worthless?

• Jeremiah 2:6 OT

  They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought and of the shadow of death, through a land that no one passed…

• Jeremiah 2:31 OT

  Generation, consider Yahweh’s word. Have I been a wilderness to Israel? Or a land of thick darkness? Why do my people say, ‘We have broken loose. We will come to you no more?’

• Micah 6:2 OT

  Hear, you mountains, Yahweh’s controversy, and you enduring foundations of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with his people, and he will contend with Israel.

• Micah 6:3 OT

  My people, what have I done to you? How have I burdened you? Answer me!

• Deuteronomy 32:6 OT

  Is this the way you repay Yahweh, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.

• Psalms 106:7 OT

  Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

• Psalms 106:21 OT

  They forgot God, their Savior, who had done great things in Egypt,

• Jeremiah 2:11-13 OT

  Has a nation changed its gods, which really are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doesn’t profit. “Be astonished, you heavens, at this and be horribly afraid. Be very desolate,” says Yahweh. “For my people have…

• Deuteronomy 31:20 OT

  For when I have brought them into the land which I swore to their fathers, flowing with milk and honey, and they have eaten and filled themselves, and grown fat, then they will turn to other gods, and serve them, and despise me, and break…

• Deuteronomy 32:15 OT

  But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.

• Jeremiah 5:7-11 OT

  “How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses. They were as fed horses roaming…

• Deuteronomy 8:11-14 OT

  Beware lest you forget Yahweh your God, in not keeping his commandments, his ordinances, and his statutes, which I command you today; lest, when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses and lived in them; and when your herds…

• 1 Samuel 12:24 OT

  Only fear Yahweh, and serve him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things he has done for you.

• 1 Samuel 12:25 OT

  But if you keep doing evil, you will be consumed, both you and your king.”

• Nehemiah 9:20-27 OT

  You gave also your good Spirit to instruct them, and didn’t withhold your manna from their mouth, and gave them water for their thirst. “Yes, forty years you sustained them in the wilderness. They lacked nothing. Their clothes didn’t grow…

• Hosea 2:8 OT

  For she didn’t know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

• Hosea 2:9 OT

  Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

• Isaiah 5:1-7 OT

  Let me sing for my well beloved a song of my beloved about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. He dug it up, gathered out its stones, planted it with the choicest vine, built a tower in the middle of it, and…

• Ezekiel 16:1-15 OT

  Again Yahweh’s word came to me, saying, “Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations; and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says to Jerusalem: “Your origin and your birth is of the land of the Canaanite. An Amorite was your father, and your…

• Deuteronomy 32:18 OT

  Of the Rock who became your father, you are unmindful, and have forgotten God who gave you birth.