memorizing scriptures
What does the Bible say about memorizing scriptures? These are the passages readers found most helpful — tap any citation to read it in context.
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11I have hidden your eloquence in my heart, so that I may not sin against you.
2And do not choose to be conformed to this age, but instead choose to be reformed in the newness of your mind, so that you may demonstrate what is the will of God: what is good, and what is well-pleasing, and what is perfect.
17Therefore, faith is from hearing, and hearing is through the Word of Christ.
7If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, then you may ask for whatever you will, and it shall be done for you. 8In this, my Father is glorified: that you should bring forth very much fruit and become my disciples.
105Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my paths.
9that I should do your will. My God, I have willed it. And your law is in the midst of my heart.
22So be doers of the Word, and not listeners only, deceiving yourselves. 23For if anyone is a listener of the Word, but not also a doer, he is comparable to a man gazing into a mirror upon the face that he was born with; 24and after considering himself, he went away and promptly forgot what he had seen. 25But he who gazes upon the perfect law of liberty, and who remains in it, is not a forgetful hearer, but instead a doer of the work. He shall be blessed in what he does.
15Be solicitous in the task of presenting yourself before God as a proven and unashamed worker who has handled the Word of Truth correctly.
31The law of his God is in his heart, and his steps shall not be supplanted.
28And since they did not prove to have God by knowledge, God handed them over to a morally depraved way of thinking, so that they might do those things which are not fitting: