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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.
Teach me proper discernment and understanding! For I consider your commands to be reliable.
For wisdom provides protection, just as money provides protection. But the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves the life of its owner.
I will instruct and teach you about how you should live. I will advise you as I look you in the eye.
But if anyone is deficient in wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without reprimand, and it will be given to him.
Give instruction to a wise person, and he will become wiser still; teach a righteous person and he will add to his learning.
For everything that was written in former times was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and through encouragement of the scriptures we may have hope.
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and exhorting one another with all wisdom, singing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, all with grace in your hearts to God.
Make every effort to present yourself before God as a proven worker who does not need to be ashamed, teaching the message of truth accurately.
Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.
Therefore be very careful how you live – not as unwise but as wise,taking advantage of every opportunity, because the days are evil.
Fearing the Lord is the beginning of moral knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Your instructions are a doorway through which light shines. They give insight to the untrained.
Take my yoke on you and learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.Acknowledge him in all your ways, and he will make your paths straight.
For the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than human strength.
Who is the Lord trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast!
And what you learned and received and heard and saw in me, do these things. And the God of peace will be with you.
For though you should in fact be teachers by this time, you need someone to teach you the beginning elements of God’s utterances. You have gone back to needing milk, not solid food.For everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced in the message of righteousness, because he is an infant.But solid food is for the mature, whose perceptions are trained by practice to discern both good and evil.
Be warned, my son, of anything in addition to them. There is no end to the making of many books, and much study is exhausting to the body.
And he said to mankind, ‘The fear of the Lord – that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’”
Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the honor both now and on that eternal day.
so that you may live worthily of the Lord and please him in all respects – bearing fruit in every good deed, growing in the knowledge of God,
How much better it is to acquire wisdom than gold; to acquire understanding is more desirable than silver.
The law you have revealed is more important to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver. י (Yod)
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Lord is an eternal God, the creator of the whole earth. He does not get tired or weary; there is no limit to his wisdom.He gives strength to those who are tired; to the ones who lack power, he gives renewed energy.A voice cries out, “In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord; construct in the desert a road for our God.Even youths get tired and weary; even strong young men clumsily stumble.But those who wait for the Lord’s help find renewed strength; they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings, they run without growing weary, they walk without getting tired.
“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, but it did not collapse because it had been founded on rock.
I also thought to myself, “It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.
The law of the Lord is perfect and preserves one’s life. The rules set down by the Lord are reliable and impart wisdom to the inexperienced.The Lord’s precepts are fair and make one joyful. The Lord’s commands are pure and give insight for life.
The one who associates with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
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, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
Make me understand your ways, O Lord! Teach me your paths!Guide me into your truth and teach me. For you are the God who delivers me; on you I rely all day long.
So then, my dear friends, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence but even more in my absence, continue working out your salvation with awe and reverence,for the one bringing forth in you both the desire and the effort – for the sake of his good pleasure – is God.
Learn to do what is right! Promote justice! Give the oppressed reason to celebrate! Take up the cause of the orphan! Defend the rights of the widow!
The godly speak wise words and promote justice.The law of their God controls their thinking; their feet do not slip.
So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,Suddenly there was a severe earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descending from heaven came and rolled away the stone and sat on it.teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
And we know that all things work together for good for those who love God, who are called according to his purpose,
I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of him,
Listen to advice and receive discipline, that you may become wise by the end of your life.
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, accommodating, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial, and not hypocritical.
Take pains with these things; be absorbed in them, so that everyone will see your progress.
The one who is wise in heart is called discerning, and kind speech increases persuasiveness.
so that you may not be sluggish, but imitators of those who through faith and perseverance inherit the promises.
There is gold, and an abundance of rubies, but words of knowledge are like a precious jewel.
But I myself am fully convinced about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.
Now we have not received the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things that are freely given to us by God.
and every arrogant obstacle that is raised up against the knowledge of God, and we take every thought captive to make it obey Christ.
Receive my instruction rather than silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.For wisdom is better than rubies, and desirable things cannot be compared to her.
Now as for you, the anointing that you received from him resides in you, and you have no need for anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, it is true and is not a lie. Just as it has taught you, you reside in him.
Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.The mind that acts rashly will possess discernment and the tongue that stutters will speak with ease and clarity.
May the godly strike me in love and correct me! May my head not refuse choice oil! Indeed, my prayer is a witness against their evil deeds.
Therefore I exhort you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a sacrifice – alive, holy, and pleasing to God – which is your reasonable service.
indeed, if you call out for discernment – raise your voice for understanding –if you seek it like silver, and search for it like hidden treasure,then you will understand how to fear the Lord, and you will discover knowledge about God.
How blessed is the one whose helper is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God,
O Timothy, protect what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane chatter and absurdities of so-called “knowledge.”By professing it, some have strayed from the faith. Grace be with you all.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is worthy of respect, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if something is excellent or praiseworthy, think about these things.
For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes – his eternal power and divine nature – have been clearly seen, because they are understood through what has been made. So people are without excuse.
A rod and reproof impart wisdom, but a child who is unrestrained brings shame to his mother.
So we must not grow weary in doing good, for in due time we will reap, if we do not give up.
For with great wisdom comes great frustration; whoever increases his knowledge merely increases his heartache.
May my words and my thoughts be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my sheltering rock and my redeemer.
Consequently faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the preached word of Christ.
I said, “During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully.” I tried to make sense of what was happening.
Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written, “He catches the wise in their craftiness.”
You must love the Lord your God with your whole mind, your whole being, and all your strength.
The expert answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
No one will be able to resist you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not abandon you or leave you alone.
if my people, who belong to me, humble themselves, pray, seek to please me, and repudiate their sinful practices, then I will respond from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.
And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Now Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for righteousness,” and he was called God’s friend.
For the payoff of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
But he answered, “It is written, ‘Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”
“I give you a new commandment – to love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
Do not be conformed to this present world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may test and approve what is the will of God – what is good and well-pleasing and perfect.