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Ingratitude of Man to God Numbers 16:9, 10

Is it not enough for you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel and brought you near to Himself to perform the work at the LORD’s tabernacle, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them? / He has brought you near, you and all your fellow Levites, but you are seeking the priesthood as well.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Deuteronomy 8:12–14

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, / and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, / then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Deuteronomy 6:11, 12

with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied, / be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Deuteronomy 28:47, 48

Because you did not serve the LORD your God with joy and gladness of heart in all your abundance, / you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Deuteronomy 31:16

And the LORD said to Moses, “You will soon rest with your fathers, and these people will rise up and prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land they are entering. They will forsake Me and break the covenant I have made with them.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Deuteronomy 32:6, 13, 15, 18

Is this how you repay the LORD, O foolish and senseless people? Is He not your Father and Creator? Has He not made you and established you? / He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag, / But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Judges 2:10–12

After that whole generation had also been gathered to their fathers, another generation rose up who did not know the LORD or the works that He had done for Israel. / And the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals. / Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They bowed down to them and provoked the LORD to anger,

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Ingratitude of Man to God Judges 8:34, 35

The Israelites failed to remember the LORD their God who had delivered them from the hands of all their enemies on every side. / They did not show kindness to the house of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) for all the good things he had done for Israel.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Judges 10:11, 14

The LORD replied, “When the Egyptians, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines, / Go and cry out to the gods you have chosen. Let them save you in your time of trouble.”

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Ingratitude of Man to God Nehemiah 9:25, 35

They captured fortified cities and fertile land and took houses full of all goods, wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves, and fruit trees in abundance. So they ate and were filled; they grew fat and delighted in Your great goodness. / For even while they were in their kingdom, with the abundant goodness that You had given them, and in the spacious and fertile land that You had set before them, they would not serve You or turn from their wicked ways.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Psalm 106:7, 21

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea. / They forgot God their Savior, who did great things in Egypt,

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Ingratitude of Man to God Jeremiah 2:6, 7

They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’ / I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and bounty, but you came and defiled My land, and made My inheritance detestable.

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Ingratitude of Man to God 1 Samuel 8:7, 8

And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king. / Just as they have done from the day I brought them up out of Egypt until this day, forsaking Me and serving other gods, so they are doing to you.

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Ingratitude of Man to God 1 Samuel 10:19

But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”

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Ingratitude of Man to God 1 Samuel 15:17, 19

And Samuel said, “Although you were once small in your own eyes, have you not become the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel / So why did you not obey the LORD? Why did you rush upon the plunder and do evil in the sight of the LORD?”

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Ingratitude of Man to God 2 Samuel 12:7–9

Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul. / I gave your master’s house to you and your master’s wives into your arms. I gave you the house of Israel and Judah, and if that was not enough, I would have given you even more. / Why then have you despised the command of the LORD by doing evil in His sight? You put Uriah the Hittite to the sword and took his wife as your own, for you have slain him with the sword of the Ammonites.

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Ingratitude of Man to God 1 Kings 16:1–3

Then the word of the LORD came to Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha, saying: / “Even though I lifted you out of the dust and made you ruler over My people Israel, you have walked in the way of Jeroboam and have caused My people Israel to sin and to provoke Me to anger by their sins. / So now I will consume Baasha and his house, and I will make your house like that of Jeroboam son of Nebat:

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Ingratitude of Man to God 2 Chronicles 12:1

After Rehoboam had established his sovereignty and royal power, he and all Israel with him forsook the Law of the LORD.

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Ingratitude of Man to God 2 Chronicles 26:15, 16

And in Jerusalem he made skillfully designed devices to shoot arrows and catapult large stones from the towers and corners. So his fame spread far and wide, for he was helped tremendously so that he became powerful. / But when Uzziah grew powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.

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Ingratitude of Man to God 2 Chronicles 32:25

But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Psalm 78:16, 17, 27–32

He brought streams from the stone and made water flow down like rivers. / But they continued to sin against Him, rebelling in the desert against the Most High. / He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Psalm 106:7

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Isaiah 1:2

Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Jeremiah 2:17, 31

Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way? / You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?

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Ingratitude of Man to God Jeremiah 5:7, 9, 24

“Why should I forgive you? Your children have forsaken Me and sworn by gods that are not gods. I satisfied their needs, yet they committed adultery and assembled at the houses of prostitutes. / Should I not punish them for these things?” declares the LORD. “Should I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? / They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’

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Ingratitude of Man to God Ezekiel 16:17–22

You also took the fine jewelry of gold and silver I had given you, and you made male idols with which to prostitute yourself. / You took your embroidered garments to cover them, and you set My oil and incense before them. / And you set before them as a pleasing aroma the food I had given you—the fine flour, oil, and honey that I had fed you. That is what happened, declares the Lord GOD.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Daniel 5:18, 20, 21

As for you, O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness, glory and honor. / But when his heart became arrogant and his spirit was hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne, and his glory was taken from him. / He was driven away from mankind, and his mind was like that of a beast. He lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like an ox, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until he acknowledged that the Most High God rules over the kingdom of mankind, setting over it whom He wishes.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Hosea 2:8, 9

For she does not acknowledge that it was I who gave her grain, new wine, and oil, who lavished on her silver and gold—which they crafted for Baal. / Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Hosea 4:7

The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against Me; they exchanged their Glory for a thing of disgrace.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Hosea 7:13, 15

Woe to them, for they have strayed from Me! Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against Me! Though I would redeem them, they speak lies against Me. / Although I trained and strengthened their arms, they plot evil against Me.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Hosea 11:1, 3

When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son. / It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Hosea 13:6

When they had pasture, they became satisfied; when they were satisfied, their hearts became proud, and as a result they forgot Me.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Amos 3:1, 2

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt: / “Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities.”

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Ingratitude of Man to God Micah 6:3, 4

‘My people, what have I done to you? Testify against Me how I have wearied you! / For I brought you up from the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery. I sent Moses before you, as well as Aaron and Miriam.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Luke 17:17, 18

“Were not all ten cleansed?” Jesus asked. “Where then are the other nine? / Was no one found except this foreigner to return and give glory to God?”

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Ingratitude of Man to God John 1:11

He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

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Ingratitude of Man to God Romans 1:21

For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts.

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Ingratitude of Man to God 2 Timothy 3:2

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,

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