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17 Bible Verses About Being Taken for Granted

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  • Isaiah 1:3 says an ox knows its master and a donkey its owner’s manger, while Israel does not know God.
  • Deuteronomy 8:11-14 warns that forgetting God comes with plenty: when people have eaten, built fine houses and seen their silver and gold increase.
  • Joseph asked the chief cupbearer to remember him, and the cupbearer forgot him until two full years had passed (Genesis 40:14, 40:23 and 41:1).
  • Of the ten men cleansed of leprosy in Luke 17, one came back to thank Jesus, and he was a Samaritan.
  • Luke 6:35 says God “is kind to the ungrateful and wicked” and tells Jesus’s hearers to lend without expecting anything back.

The Bible describes God being taken for granted by his people, and people being taken for granted by one another. Isaiah 1:2-3 says an ox knows its master while Israel does not know God, and Deuteronomy 8:11-14 warns that fine houses and growing flocks lead people to forget who gave them. The same thing happens between people. The chief cupbearer forgets the man who interpreted his dream (Genesis 40:23), the elders set Samuel aside (1 Samuel 8:7), Paul asks the…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

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