Essential Memory Verses

JOSHUA 1:8 MATTHEW 22:37-40 (KJV) Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord meditate on it day and night, so that you may thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy be careful to do everything written in it. Then soul, and with all thy mind. you will be prosperous and successful. This is the first and . And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love GENESIS 1:27 thy neighbor as thyself. So God made man in his own image, in the On these two commandments hang all the law image of God he created him; male and and the prophets. female he created them. PSALM 23 (KJV) PROVERBS 3: 5-6 The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: not on your own understanding; he leadeth me beside the still waters. in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will He restoreth my soul: make your paths straight. he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. MATTHEW 11: 28-30 Yea, though I walk Jesus said: through the valley of the shadow of death, Come to me, all you who are weary I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; and burdened, and I will give you rest. thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, Thou preparest a table before me in the for I am gentle and humble in heart, presence of mine enemies: and you will find rest for your souls. thou anointest my head with oil; For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me PSALM 86: 15 all the days of my life: But you, O Lord, are a compassionate and and I will dwell in the house of the LORD gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love for ever. and faithfulness. PHILIPPIANS 4: 4-8 EXODUS 20: 1-17 (KJV) Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: And God spake all these words, saying: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. , which have brought The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about thee out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your I. Thou shalt have no other gods before requests to God. And the peace of God, which me. transcends all understanding, will guard your II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. graven image. III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is LORD thy God in vain. noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, IV. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable--if holy. anything is excellent or praiseworthy--think V. Honor thy father and thy mother. about such things. VI. . VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery. GALATIANS 5: 22-23 VIII. Thou shalt not steal. But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, thy neighbor. gentleness and self-control. X. anything that is thy Against such things there is no law. neighbor's.

MATTHEW 6: 9-13 (KJV) the poor and surrender my body to the flames, Our Father which art in heaven, but have not love, I gain nothing. Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, Thy will be done in earth, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not as it is in heaven. rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily Give us this day our daily bread. angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love And forgive us our debts, does not delight in evil but rejoices with the as we forgive our debtors. truth. It always protects, always trusts, And lead us not into temptation, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never but deliver us from evil: fails. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, And now these three remain: faith, hope and for ever. Amen. love. But the greatest of these is love.

1 JOHN 1: 9 JOHN 3: 16-17 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just For God so loved the world that he gave his and will forgive us our sins and purify us from one and only Son, that whoever believes in all unrighteousness. him shall not perish but have eternal life.

JOHN 14: 6 For God did not send his Son into the world to Jesus said: condemn the world, but to save the world I am the way and the truth and the life. through him. No one comes to the Father except through me. JOHN 10:27-30 Jesus said: JOHN 14: 9 My sheep listen to my voice; Jesus said: I know them, and they follow me. Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; 1 CORINTHIANS 13 (abbreviated) no one can snatch them out of my hand. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a My Father, who has given them to me, resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I is greater than all; have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all no one can snatch them out of my Father's mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a hand. faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to I and the Father are one.