66 Verses - One Great Verse to Memorize from Each Book in the Bible
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| Genesis 1:1 | "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." |
| Exodus 14:14 | "The Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still." |
| Leviticus 20:26 | " You are to be holy to Me because I, the LORD, am holy, and I have set you apart from the nations to be My own." |
| Numbers 23:19 | "God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that He should change his mind." |
| Deuteronomy 7:9 | "The Lord your God is God; He is the faithful God, keeping His covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commands." |
| Joshua 1:8 | "Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; 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." |
| Judges 3:9 | "But when they cried out to the LORD, He raised up for them a deliverer." |
| Ruth 1:17 | "May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." |
| 1 Samuel 16:7 | "The LORD does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart." |
| 2 Samuel 7:22 | "How great you are, O Sovereign LORD! There is no one like You, and there is no God but You." |
| 1 Kings 8:39 | "You alone know the hearts of all men." |
| 2 Kings 22:19 | "Because your heart was responsive and you humbled yourself before the LORD ... I have heard you, declares the LORD." |
| 1 Chronicles 29:17 | "I know, my God, that You test the heart and are pleased with integrity." |
| 2 Chronicles 15:2 | "The LORD is with you when you are with Him." |
| Ezra 7:10 | "Ezra had devoted himself to the study and observance of the Law of the LORD, and to teaching its decrees and laws." |
| Nehemiah 9:5 | "Stand up and praise the LORD your God, who is from everlasting to everlasting." |
| Esther 4:14 | "Who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?" |
| Job 19:25 | "I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth." |
| Psalm 68:19 | "Praise be to to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens." |
| 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." |
| Ecclesiastes 5:7 | "Stand in awe of God." |
| Song of Songs 2:4 | "His banner over me is love." |
| Isaiah 40:11 | "He tends His flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those that have young." |
| Jeremiah 29:11 | "'For I know the plans I have for you,' declares the Lord, 'plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.'" |
| Lamentations 2:19 | "Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord." |
| Ezekiel 36:26 | "I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh." |
| Daniel 4:34 | "I ... raised my eyes toward heaven, and my sanity was restored." |
| Hosea 14:8 | "Your fruitfulness comes from Me." |
| Joel 2:32 | "Everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved." |
| Amos 5:6 | "Seek the Lord and live." |
| Obadiah 21 | "And the kingdom will be the LORD's." |
| Jonah 2:5 | "Seaweed was wrapped around my head." (Just kidding, let's do 2:8) |
| Jonah 2:8 | "Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace that could be theirs." |
| Micah 7:8 | "Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light." |
| Nahum 1:7 | "The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in Him." |
| Habakkuk 3:19 | "The Sovereign LORD is my strength." |
| Zephaniah 3:17 | "The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with his love, He will rejoice over you with singing." |
| Haggai 1:5 | "Give careful thought to your ways." |
| Zechariah 4:6 | "'Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,' says the LORD Almighty." |
| Malachi 4:2 | "But for you who revere My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings." |
| Matthew 5:44 | "Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you." |
| Mark 6:50 | "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid." |
| Luke 1:37 | "Nothing is impossible with God." |
| John 15:5 | "Apart from Me you can do nothing." |
| Acts 17:26 | "He determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live." |
| Romans 3:23 | "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." |
| 1 Corinthians 10:13 | "God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear." |
| 2 Corinthians 12:9 | "My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness." |
| Galatians 5:22-23 | "But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law." |
| Ephesians 2:10 | "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." |
| Philippians 4:19 | "My God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus." |
| Colossians 3:23 | "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men." |
| 1 Thessalonians 5:11 | "Encourage one another and build each other up." |
| 2 Thessalonians 3:13 | "Never tire of doing what is right." |
| 1 Timothy 1:15 | "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners." |
| 2 Timothy 3:16 | "All scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness." |
| Titus 3:4-5 | "But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy." |
| Philemon 25 | "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit." |
| Hebrews 10:25 | "Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another - and all the more as you see the Day approaching." |
| James 4:10 | "Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up." |
| 1 Peter 3:15 | "In your hearts set apart Christ as Lord." |
| 2 Peter 1:2 | "Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord." |
| 1 John 1:9 | "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness." |
| 2 John 6 | "His command is that you walk in love." |
| 3 John 11 | "Do not imitate what is evil but what is good." |
| Jude 22 | "Be merciful to those who doubt." |
| Revelation 21:6 | "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life." |
These verses are from the New International Version, 1984. Use any version you prefer.
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