chongjasmine Posted January 7 Group: Members Followers: 1 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 34 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 13 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/11/2014 Status: Offline Share Posted January 7 I have a question. There are so many, so many verses in the bible. How do you actually select which verses you are going to memorize? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NConly Posted January 7 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 5 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1,341 Content Per Day: 2.76 Reputation: 615 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/11/2023 Status: Offline Share Posted January 7 I myself start with verses about the present Priesthood, Faith. Salvation, New Covenant, New Commandments the old law. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Debp Posted January 8 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 52 Topic Count: 1,026 Topics Per Day: 0.15 Content Count: 12,355 Content Per Day: 1.80 Reputation: 16,388 Days Won: 92 Joined: 07/19/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted January 8 Important verses... salvation, faith, spiritual warfare. Also, some comforting verses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neighbor Posted January 8 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 958 Topics Per Day: 0.35 Content Count: 13,678 Content Per Day: 5.04 Reputation: 9,089 Days Won: 6 Joined: 12/04/2016 Status: Offline Birthday: 03/03/1885 Share Posted January 8 Hi, I do not select verses to memorize. Why? Because memorized verses get spewed out with a meter that says my brain is on disconnect I am pattering on mindlessly. Instead, I try to read the word without any verse references at all. I read it for pleasure first and then also for lessons and for application, but not to isolate a sentence or phrase from it's companions and memorize it. The Holy Spirit seems to bring whole thoughts, chapters, books, of the Bible to mind for application, more so than a so called verse used as a slogan might do. When did versification of the Bible first occur? Was it inspired of God, the isolating of phrases from their near context? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted January 8 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,249 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,980 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted January 8 I don't try and memorize verses, I remember the story it tells and not just one verse, but the storyline of whose chapters. A general knowledge of where it comes from, but it's more important to know and understand the scripture as a whole. You can memorize a verse and miss the concept of an entire chapter or book. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJK Posted January 8 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 3,349 Content Per Day: 7.68 Reputation: 1,305 Days Won: 1 Joined: 03/01/2023 Status: Offline Share Posted January 8 36 minutes ago, other one said: I don't try and memorize verses, I remember the story it tells and not just one verse, but the storyline of whose chapters. A general knowledge of where it comes from, but it's more important to know and understand the scripture as a whole. You can memorize a verse and miss the concept of an entire chapter or book. FWIW, a computer can memorize the versus far better than you can, but it can't understand what they mean. I've sorta concentrated to on developing an understanding of scripture and left memorizing the exact words and where they are referenced up to my computer where it is always the same and doesn't slowly change itself into something just a little different they way it does in my memory sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Adrien Posted January 26 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 470 Content Per Day: 4.27 Reputation: 405 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/22/2024 Status: Online Share Posted January 26 I memorize verses for the sole reason that while I'm doing this my mind is focused on teachings that lead to life and not being infiltrated as easily by frivolity of the self seeking, self aggrandizement which can lead to much worse. I agree with Neighbor that having learned a verse by rote tends to just eliminate any meaning to the words when speaking them from memory. Empty syllables spewed from memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted January 26 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,561 Content Per Day: 12.17 Reputation: 3,349 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted January 26 42 minutes ago, D. Adrien said: I memorize verses for the sole reason that while I'm doing this my mind is focused on teachings that lead to life and not being infiltrated as easily by frivolity of the self seeking, self aggrandizement which can lead to much worse. I agree with Neighbor that having learned a verse by rote tends to just eliminate any meaning to the words when speaking them from memory. Empty syllables spewed from memory. Hi @D. Adrien I am reminded of Psalm 119.11: "Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. Adrien Posted January 26 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 470 Content Per Day: 4.27 Reputation: 405 Days Won: 1 Joined: 01/22/2024 Status: Online Share Posted January 26 Wonderful quote farouk ! I've memorized the following from Job and believe it would make a grand epitaph on a tombstone, kinda long though. Copy and pasted for accuracy. Job 19:25-27 (ESV) For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. 26And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farouk Posted January 26 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 26 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 6,561 Content Per Day: 12.17 Reputation: 3,349 Days Won: 31 Joined: 11/18/2022 Status: Offline Share Posted January 26 9 minutes ago, D. Adrien said: Wonderful quote farouk ! I've memorized the following from Job and believe it would make a grand epitaph on a tombstone, kinda long though. Copy and pasted for accuracy. Job 19:25-27 (ESV) For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will stand upon the earth. 26And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet in my flesh I shall see God, 27whom I shall see for myself, and my eyes shall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me! @D. Adrien There's a sung version of this also............ not only the one from Handel's Messiah but another one, the author of which I don't recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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