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VERSES TO MEMORIZE
Memorizing Bible verses is a great way to stay grounded and prepared with God's Word, no matter what you're going through. It's like having a handy toolkit filled with wisdom and comfort right at your fingertips.
Think about it: you could share a verse about God's love when a friend needs encouragement, or recall one about patience while waiting in a long line at the DMV. It's all about weaving God's truth into the fabric of your everyday life.
If you spend a little time each day working on memorization, it'll become so much easier to remember scripture when you need it most. It's like building a spiritual muscle, one verse at a time.
As Joshua 1:8 says, "Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful." That's a powerful promise, and memorization helps bring it to life.
Therefore if there is any encouragement in Christ, if there is any consolation of love, if there is any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,
so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling;
for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.
Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
so that you will be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
holding fast the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I will have reason to boast because I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
And you also, rejoice in the same way and share your joy with me.
But I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you shortly, so that I also may be in good spirits when I learn of your circumstances.
fulfill my joy, that you think the same way, by maintaining the same love, being united in spirit, thinking on one purpose,
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
The God who girds me with strength And makes my way blameless?
He makes my feet like hinds’ feet, And sets me upon my high places.
He trains my hands for battle, So that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
But He answered and said to them, “My mother and My brothers are these who hear the word of God and do it.”
The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
“Now if your brother sins , go and show him his fault, between you and him alone; if he listens to you, you have won your brother.
By this we have known love, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
“Then the virgin will be glad in the dance, And the young men and the old, together, For I will turn their mourning into joy And will comfort them and give them gladness for their sorrow.
Yahweh is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him.
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace,
encourage your hearts and strengthen them in every good work and word.
For if because of food your brother is grieved, you are no longer walking according to love. Do not destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.
Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to help those who are tempted.
and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain. The first things passed away.”
and they will see His face, and His name will be on their foreheads.
And there will no longer be any night, and they will not have need of the light of a lamp nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God will illumine them, and they will reign forever and ever.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
God is our refuge and strength, A very present help in trouble.
“Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Yahweh of hosts is with us; The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.
Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change And though the mountains shake into the heart of the sea;
Though its waters roar and foam, Though the mountains quake at its lofty pride. Selah.
For I have come to have much joy and comfort in your love, because the hearts of the saints have been refreshed through you, brother.
If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for the one who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Beloved, I pray that in all respects you may prosper and be in good health, just as your soul prospers.
Do not slander one another, brothers. He who slanders a brother or judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge of it.
Finally, brothers, rejoice, be restored, be comforted, be like-minded, live in peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
He gives power to the weary, And to him who lacks vigor He increases might.
¶A voice is calling, “Prepare the way for Yahweh in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.
Though youths grow weary and tired, And choice young men stumble badly,
Yet those who hope in Yahweh Will gain new power; They will mount up with wings like eagles; They will run and not get tired; They will walk and not become weary.
A brother offended is harder to win over than a strong city, And contentions are like the bars of a citadel.
‘Do not fear, for I am with you; Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will make you mighty, surely I will help you; Surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’
“Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not dread; For Yah—Yahweh Himself—is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation.”
I will lift up my eyes to the mountains; From where shall my help come?
My help comes from Yahweh, Who made heaven and earth.
¶Surely wait in silence for God, O my soul, For my hope is from Him.
Surely He is my rock and my salvation, My stronghold; I shall not be shaken.
¶If Yahweh had not been my help, My soul would soon have dwelt in the abode of silence.
If I should say, “My foot has stumbled,” Your lovingkindness, O Yahweh, will hold me up.
When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul.
quenched the power of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong from weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight.
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and self-discipline.
“Yah is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will extol Him.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or be in dread of them, for Yahweh your God is the one who goes with you. He will not fail you or forsake you.”
“Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, 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.
and said to Him, “Are You the One who is to come, or shall we look for someone else?”
For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
And let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore, strengthen, confirm, and ground you.
He who abides in the shelter of the Most High Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
No evil will befall you, And no plague will come near your tent.
¶For He will command His angels concerning you, To guard you in all your ways.
On their hands they will bear you up, Lest you strike your foot against a stone.
You will tread upon the fierce lion and cobra, The young lion and the serpent you will trample down.
¶“Because he has loved Me, therefore I will protect him; I will set him securely on high, because he has known My name.
“He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in his distress; I will rescue him and honor him.
“With a long life I will satisfy him And I will show him My salvation.”
I will say to Yahweh, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom I trust!”
Yahweh is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strong defense of my life; Whom shall I dread?
that He would give you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,
“When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you.
He said, “I love You, O Yahweh, my strength.”
He rode upon a cherub and flew; And He sped upon the wings of the wind.
He made darkness His hiding place, His canopy around Him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
From the brightness before Him passed His thick clouds, Hailstones and coals of fire.
Yahweh also thundered in the heavens, And the Most High gave forth His voice, Hailstones and coals of fire.
He sent out His arrows, and scattered them, And lightning flashes in abundance, and threw them into confusion.
Then the channels of water appeared, And the foundations of the world were laid bare At Your rebuke, O Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.
¶He sent from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy, And from those who hated me, for they were too mighty for me.
They confronted me in the day of my disaster, But Yahweh was my support.
He brought me forth also into a broad place; He rescued me, because He delighted in me.
Yahweh is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, My God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; My shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
¶How blessed is the man whose strength is in You, In whose heart are the highways to Zion!
Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a spring; The early rain also wraps it up with blessings.
They go from strength to strength, Each one of them appears before God in Zion.
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.
and he said, “Pay attention, all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and King Jehoshaphat: thus says Yahweh to you, ‘Do not fear or be dismayed because of this great multitude, for the battle is not yours but God’s.
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.