Bible Study Tips on how to memorize bible verses?

[hishandmaiden]

I need some tips on memorizing bible verses. Beside John 3:16, I could never seem to memorize any verses. Yes, I knew them roughly but I forgot the verses they came from. And when trying to encourage someone with bible verses, can have a hard time locating the verses I want to encourage the Christians with.

So, share with me your tips. How do you manage to memorize bible verses? What tools do you use? Are the tools useful? Do you recite them until you can memorize them, or do you play bible verse games? What do you do? I tried to recite, I tried to play games, but they don't work. I can't memorize the scriptures. Maybe my memory is just bad... yet I can memorize John 3:16.

 

[for_his_glory]

Unless one has a photographic memory I don't think anyone could memorize all the scriptures that are contained in the Bible. John 3:16 is the most memorable as we see this verse all over the place and have repeated it to memory. I'm not very good at retaining much, but when I need a certain scripture the Holy Spirit will bring it back to my memory, but most of the time I have to consistently look up the scriptures I need for the moment I need them.

 

[electedbyHim]

We learn by repetiton.

Pick a verse and read it outloud while writing it down several dozen times a day for a week.

Each day find a quiet secluded spot and use an index card with that verse and use it as a reference to memorize while repeating it outloud.

I used to do this while walking. For me, moving and talking worked really well. Romans 8:29 was my first verse.

My best prayer comes form verbally speaking while driving. I seem to concentrate so much better while driving.

In my mid 50's now so it can be a challenge to remember.

Grace and peace to you.

 

[Who Me]

I need some tips on memorizing bible verses

There is only one way to memorise anything and that is to train ones mind to remember.
One does this by repetition.
Try the navigator memory aides:-
https://www.navigators.org/resource/topical-memory-system/

Then work at memorises the first 5 verses, as already suggested write each verse out in full.
The verse, the book, chapter and verse.

Cover the verses and try to recite them, check, read out loud the verse, cover and recite.
Spend an evening doing this and you will learn those 5 verses.
Carry a card wallet with those 5 verse cards and at odd quiet moments recite the verse, check, read through and recite again.

It takes real hard work to kick start ones memory, but it can be done.
At church challenge the Sunday school to recite last week's memory verse, which you have learnt, offer a sweet as a prize.

 

[Tenchi]

I need some tips on memorizing bible verses. Beside John 3:16, I could never seem to memorize any verses. Yes, I knew them roughly but I forgot the verses they came from. And when trying to encourage someone with bible verses, can have a hard time locating the verses I want to encourage the Christians with.

So, share with me your tips. How do you manage to memorize bible verses? What tools do you use? Are the tools useful? Do you recite them until you can memorize them, or do you play bible verse games? What do you do? I tried to recite, I tried to play games, but they don't work. I can't memorize the scriptures. Maybe my memory is just bad... yet I can memorize John 3:16.

Take your time. When I began to memorize verses, I would memorize only a word, or two, a day from a particular verse. Over the course of a week, or more (depending on the length of the verse), several times daily repeating the portion of the verse I'd memorized, I settled it into my long-term memory. As I persisted in doing this, eventually, it became easier to memorize longer portions of verses in a day and, in time, even several verses at once. Over the course of a couple of years of regular memory work, when I recited from memory all the verses I had learned, it took me over an hour to do so! A little bit every day really adds up!

Mnemonics are helpful, too. Google it.

Nearing sixty, I find memory work much more challenging. Memorized verses/passages don't "stick" quite like they used to. So, if you're young, take advantage of your wonderfully youthful, plastic (i.e. flexible) brain and memorize, memorize, memorize. You'll be very thankful you did when you get to be my age.

Finally, early on in memorizing Scripture, it really helped motivate memorization to memorize verses that spoke directly to my life, to the areas of spiritual challenge in it. For example, when I was in my twenties, I struggled severely with anxiety and obsessive thinking. So, I memorized verses that dealt particularly with these things, using them as the countering "sword of Truth" that they are (Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12) to cut down the lies that were at the heart of my anxiety and obsessiveness.