I’ve discovered verses to memorize from a variety of sources. As a child I memorized verses for Sunday School. Later, I learned verses from the highly prized Navigators’ Topical Memory System.
Other verses were tattooed onto my heart by the Holy Spirit during times of pressure, from my devotional reading or when looking for answers. Some verses are juicy, inspirational — WOW!
May I suggest that it is better to know 100 key verses, reflecting a broad balance of Bible teaching, rather than to memorize two or three entire Bible chapters? Either way, begin this fascinating journey with God, and keep up a steady pace. How many verses will you eventually memorize? Who’s counting!
Memorize two or three verses each week. Begin on Monday. Say the Topic, then glue the reference to the first word of each verse. Review. Review. After memorizing the verse segments, meditate on each verse.
THE WORD
Matthew 4:4
Jesus answered, “It is written:
‘Man does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes
from the mouth of God.’”
Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active.
Sharper than any double-edged sword,
it penetrates even to dividing
soul and spirit, joints and marrow;
it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Jeremiah 15:16
When your words came, I ate them;
they were my joy and my heart’s delight,
for I bear your name, O Lord God Almighty.
PRAYER
John 16:24
Until now you have not asked
for anything in my name.
Ask and you will receive,
and your joy will be complete.
Matthew 21:22
If you believe, you will receive
whatever you ask for in prayer.
Philippians 4:6
Do not be anxious about anything,
but in everything, by prayer and petition,
with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
OBEDIENCE
Romans 12:1
Therefore, I urge you, brothers,
in view of God’s mercy,
to offer your bodies as living sacrifices,
holy and pleasing to God — this is
your spiritual act of worship.
John 14:21
“Whoever has my commands
and obeys them,
he is the one who loves me.
He who loves me
will be loved by my Father,
and I too will love him
and show myself to him.”
Hebrews 5:8
Although he was a son,
he learned obedience
from what he suffered.
WITNESSING
Matthew 4:19
“Come, follow me,” Jesus said,
“and I will make you fishers of men.”
Proverbs 24:11, 12
Rescue those being led away to death;
hold back those staggering toward slaughter.
If you say, “But we knew nothing about this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who guards your life know it?
Will he not repay each person
according to what he has done?
Acts 1:8
“But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit comes on you;
and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem,
and in all Judea and Samaria,
and to the ends of the earth.”
Romans 1:16
I am not ashamed of the gospel,
because it is the power of God
for the salvation of everyone who believes:
first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
Matthew 28:19, 20
“Therefore go and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always,
to the very end of the age.”
The Road To SALVATION via The Bridge
Romans 3:23
For all have sinned and
fall short of the glory of God,
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death,
but the gift of God is eternal
life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Hebrews 9:27
Just as man is destined to die once,
and after that to face judgment.
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this:
While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 2:8, 9
For it is by grace you have been saved,
through faith — and this not from yourselves,
it is the gift of God — not by works,
so that no one can boast.
John 5:24
“I tell you the truth, whoever hears
my word and believes him who sent me
has eternal life and will not be condemned;
he has crossed over from death to life.”
John 1:12
Yet to all who received him,
to those who believed in his name,
he gave the right to become children of God
Revelation 3:20
Here I am!
I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice
and opens the door, I will come in
and eat with him, and he with me.
ASSURANCE
1 John 5:13
I write these things to you who
believe in the name of the Son of God
so that you may know that
you have eternal life.
John 5:24
“I tell you the truth, whoever hears
my word and believes him who sent me
has eternal life and will not be condemned;
he has crossed over from death to life.”
GUIDANCE
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom,
he should ask God, who gives
generously to all without finding fault,
and it will be given to him.
Isaiah 30:18
Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you;
he rises to show you compassion.
For the Lord is a God of justice.
Blessed are all who wait for him!
Proverbs 3:5, 6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways acknowledge him,
and he will make your paths straight.
VICTORY
1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has seized you
except what is common to man.
And God is faithful;
he will not let you be tempted
beyond what you can bear.
But when you are tempted,
he will also provide a way out
so that you can stand up under it.
Romans 8:37
No, in all these things
we are more than conquerors
through him who loved us.
CHRIST THE LORD
John 3:30
“He must become greater;
I must become less.”
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ
and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me.
The life I live in the body,
I live by faith in the Son of God,
who loved me and gave himself for me.
John 13:13, 14
“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’
and rightly so, for that is what I am.
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher,
have washed your feet,
you also should wash one another’s feet.”
2 Corinthians 5:15
And he died for all,
that those who live should
no longer live for themselves
but for him who died for them
and was raised again.
THE HOLY SPIRIT
1 Corinthians 3:16, 17
Don’t you know that you yourselves
are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
If anyone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him;
for God’s temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
John 14:26
“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit,
whom the Father will send in my name,
will teach you all things and will
remind you of everything I have said to you.”
THE FATHER
John 4:23
Yet a time is coming and has now come
when the true worshipers
will worship the Father in spirit and truth,
for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
Psalm 103:13,14
As a father has compassion on his children,
so the Lord has compassion on those who fear him;
for he knows how we are formed,
he remembers that we are dust.
HIS LOVE
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world
that he gave his one and only Son,
that whoever believes in him shall not
perish but have eternal life.”
Jeremiah 31:3
The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying:
“I have loved you with an everlasting love;
I have drawn you with loving kindness.”
HIS PRESENCE
Isaiah 49:15, 16
“Can a mother forget the baby at her breast
and have no compassion on the child she has borne?
Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.”
Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and
be content with what you have, because God has said,
“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
HIS PEACE
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep in perfect peace him whose
mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
John 14:2, 3
“In my Father’s house are many rooms;
if it were not so, I would have told you.
I am going there to prepare a place for you.
And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come back and take you to be with me
that you also may be where I am.”
HIS PROVISION
Romans 8:32
He who did not spare his own Son,
but gave him up for us all —
how will he not also, along with him,
graciously give us all things?
Philippians 4:19
And my God will meet all your needs
according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Luke 6:38
“Give, and it will be given to you.
A good measure, pressed down,
shaken together and running over,
will be poured into your lap.
For with the measure you use,
it will be measured to you.”
HIS POWER
Psalm 147:3-5
He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
He determines the number of the stars
and calls them each by name.
Great is our Lord and mighty in power;
his understanding has no limit.
Psalm 62:11
One thing God has spoken,
two things have I heard:
that you, O God, are strong.
1 Chronicles 29:11, 12
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power
and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
for everything in heaven and earth is yours.
Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom;
you are exalted as head over all.
Wealth and honor come from you;
you are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power
to exalt and give strength to all.”
PHOTOGRAPHS OF CHRIST
Matthew 11:28-30
“Come to me, all you who are weary
and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your souls.
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
John 1:14
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.
We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only,
who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Hebrews 1:9
“You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
therefore God, your God, has set you above your companions
by anointing you with the oil of joy.”
HIS FAITHFULNESS
2 Thessalonians 3:3
But the Lord is faithful, and he will
strengthen and protect you from the evil one.
1 Corinthians 1:9
God, who has called you into fellowship
with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.
HIS GRACE
2 Corinthians 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound to you,
so that in all things at all times, having all that you need,
you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses,
so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
2 Peter 1:2, 3
Grace and peace be yours in abundance
through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
His divine power has given us everything we need
for life and godliness through our knowledge of him
who called us by his own glory and goodness.
HIS STRENGTH
Psalm 18:2
The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.
He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
2 Corinthians 12:9
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you,
for my power is made perfect in weakness.”
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses,
so that Christ’s power may rest on me.
HIS ATTITUDE
Colossians 3:23, 24
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart,
as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know
that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.
It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
Philippians 4:13
I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
HUMILITY
Philippians 2:3, 4
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit,
but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
Each of you should look not only to your own interests,
but also to the interests of others.
John 13:13, 14
“You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’
and rightly so, for that is what I am.
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher,
have washed your feet,
you also should wash one another’s feet.”
HANDLING PRESSURE
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep in perfect peace him whose
mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
Psalm 46:1, 10
God is our refuge and strength,
an ever-present help in trouble.
“Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 18:1, 2
I love you, O Lord, my strength.
The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer;
my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge.
He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
DISASTER
Isaiah 63:9
In all their distress he too was distressed,
and the angel of his presence saved them.
In His love and mercy He redeemed them;
He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
Psalm 61:2
From the ends of the earth I call to you,
I call as my heart grows faint;
lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
2 Chronicles 14:11
Then Asa called to the Lord his God and said, “Lord,
there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty.
Help us, O Lord our God, for we rely on you,
and in your name we have come against this vast army.
O Lord, you are our God; do not let man prevail against you.”
PROSPERITY AND PROVISION
Psalm 1
Blessed is the man
who does not walk
in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.
But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers. Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
Psalm 23
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and love
will follow me all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
Psalm 84:11
For the Lord God is a sun and shield;
the Lord bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
from those whose walk is blameless.
WAITING ON GOD
Psalm 62:5
Find rest, O my soul,
in God alone;
my hope comes from him.
Psalm 27:14
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart
and wait for the Lord.
Isaiah 40:31
But those who hope in the Lord
will renew their strength.
They will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary,
they will walk and not be faint.
RETURN OF CHRIST
2 Peter 3:14
So then, dear friends,
since you are looking forward to this,
make every effort to be found spotless,
blameless and at peace with him.
1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17
For the Lord himself
will come down from heaven,
with a loud command,
with the voice of the archangel
and with the trumpet call of God,
and the dead in Christ will rise first.
After that, we who are still alive and are left
will be caught up together with them
in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
And so we will be with the Lord forever.
Revelation 20:15
If anyone’s name was not found
written in the book of life,
he was thrown into the lake of fire.
PRAISE AND ADORATION
1 Chronicles 16:10-12
Glory in his holy name;
let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.
Look to the Lord and his strength;
seek his face always.
Remember the wonders he has done,
his miracles, and the judgments he pronounced.
1 Chronicles 29:11, 12
“Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power
and the glory and the majesty and the splendor,
for everything in heaven and earth is yours.
Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom;
you are exalted as head over all.
Wealth and honor come from you;
you are the ruler of all things.
In your hands are strength and power
to exalt and give strength to all.”
THE TONGUE
Ephesians 4:29
Do not let any unwholesome talk
come out of your mouths,
but only what is helpful
for building others up
according to their needs,
that it may benefit
those who listen.
Proverbs 17:27, 28
A man of knowledge uses words with restraint,
and a man of understanding is even-tempered.
Even a fool is thought wise if he keeps silent,
and discerning if he holds his tongue.
James 1:19, 20
My dear brothers, take note of this:
Everyone should be quick to listen,
slow to speak and slow to become angry,
for man’s anger does not bring about
the righteous life that God desires.
FAITH
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because
anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists
and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Romans 4:17b, 20, 21
He is our father in the sight of God,
in whom he believed — the God who
gives life to the dead and calls things
that are not as though they were.
Yet he did not waver through unbelief
regarding the promise of God, but was
strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God,
being fully persuaded that God had power
to do what he had promised.
Hebrews 10:38
“But my righteous one will live by faith. And
if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.”
CHRIST’S DISCIPLE
Luke 9:23
Then he said to them all:
“If anyone would come after me,
he must deny himself and
take up his cross daily and follow me.”
Matthew 28:19, 20
“Therefore go and make disciples
of all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
and teaching them to obey
everything I have commanded you.
And surely I am with you always,
to the very end of the age.”
John 8:31
To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said,
“If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples.”
HOLY WALK
Isaiah 32:17
The fruit of righteousness will be peace;
the effect of righteousness will be quietness
and confidence forever.
Colossians 2:6
So then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord,
continue to live in him.
SEEKING GOD
Psalm 107:9
For he satisfies the thirsty and
fills the hungry with good things.
Psalm 27:4, 8
One thing I ask of the Lord,
this is what I seek:
that I may dwell in the house
of the Lord all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord
and to seek him in his temple.
My heart says of you, “Seek his face!”
Your face, Lord, I will seek.
MULTIPLY YOUR LIFE
Isaiah 43:4
Since you are precious and honored in my sight,
and because I love you,
I will give men in exchange for you,
and people in exchange for your life.
Deuteronomy 1:11
May the Lord, the God of your fathers,
increase you a thousand times and
bless you as he has promised!
FAMILY PROMISES
Deuteronomy 6:6, 7
These commandments that I give you
today are to be upon your hearts.
Impress them on your children.
Talk about them when you sit at home
and when you walk along the road,
when you lie down and
when you get up.
Genesis 22:18
“And through your offspring
all nations on earth will be blessed,
because you have obeyed me.”
Isaiah 59:21
“As for me, this is my covenant with them,”
says the Lord. “My Spirit, who is on you,
and my words that I have put in your mouth
will not depart from your mouth,
or from the mouths of your children,
or from the mouths of their descendants
from this time on and forever,” says the Lord.
CONSEQUENCES
Galatians 6:7
Do not be deceived:
God cannot be mocked.
A man reaps what he sows.
Ecclesiastes 10:1
As dead flies give perfume a bad smell,
so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
When the sentence for a crime
is not quickly carried out,
the hearts of the people are
filled with schemes to do wrong.
1 Samuel 15:22, 23
But Samuel replied:
“Does the Lord delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices
as much as in obeying the voice of the Lord?
To obey is better than sacrifice,
and to heed is better than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is like the sin of divination,
and arrogance like the evil of idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
he has rejected you as king.”
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I forgot na Jean of what was my last verse memorized. Your right its better if you'll start sa with two to three verses every week if your a busy person, enough na na siya. But in my case na tamad i don't know. Haha. I'll try what you did, your a good example Jean. Awardan natu bi. hehehe.
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hehe.. awardan jud oh.. hehe.. gani man Cha.. much better to start from little.. every journey comes from a single step ika nga. hehe.. it really feels good to hear the Gospel of the Lord.. in this way I am preaching and sharing what God wants to tell us.. thank you also for reading Cha. hehe. Godbless!
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Hehehe… Naman. Yeah tama. The problem we people tamad… Wahehe.. Same as me. Woohoo. But gaattend pod kog mass eh every Sunday walay absent.. hehe. I also listened those words of Christ. It depends pod sa tao sa willingness ug ibutang jud sa utoks ang gipang basa ug gipangwali. Sometimes kasi we keep on reading then ang kinalabasan nothing had learned. Pero galing mo kay nagagawa mo yan. Try jud ko bi sa gihimo nimu.. hekhek
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God bless you Nak!.Keep it up!
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@charise: tama jud ka Cha. hehe.. thanks!@maam Dham: thanks mommy~ Godbless u more. hehe
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