Introduction

Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law.

Every Christian needs to be meditating and feeding on God's word, and it is almost impossible to do so without memorising verses and passages. On this site I have put together a serious of schemes of Bible verses and passages to learn.

Choosing verses to learn

• Christians need to know how to behave, but also need to know why to behave that way. The law cannot provide motivation by itself—we need the gospel. What we believe about God and the gospel is of first importance—everything else flows from that.
• Scripture is also full of passages and verses that are fuel for our worship and adoration, and help us to give expression to our praise, and we should make a habit of learning these.
• Christians should also know verses that help them to share their faith.
• In order to help general reading and understanding of the Bible, Christians need the big picture of the whole Bible and of individual books.

With these principles in mind, a large number of topics have been drawn up, and a series of memorisation schemes have been designed that give a good balance of these different topics. On the individual scheme pages, you can keep track of which verses you have learnt if you register (using the 'Register' button above).

How to learn

Having decided on a set of verses to learn, it really helps to have a system for learning them.

The Charlotte Mason Scripture Memory System is one such system that works very well and should enable you to learn a verse or short passage every day. Below is a summary of how to use it:

• Prepare 41 divider cards, labelled as follows:
  • 1 labelled 'Daily'
  • 1 labelled 'Odd' and 1 'Even'
  • 7 labelled for each day of the week
  • 31 labelled from 1 to 31 for each day of the month
• Write each verse/passage to be learnt on a card that fits in the dividers, keeping all the verses and dividers in a box.
• Learn a verse by repeating it over, with its verse reference, until you can say it without looking at the card. Then place it in the 'Daily' divider.
• Each day, revise all the cards in the relevant dividers: 'Daily' every day, 'Odd' on odd days of the month, etc.
• As each section gets 'full', move the oldest verse in the that section back to a lower frequency section. What constitutes full depends on your choice. A good suggestion is to have up to 6 in the 'Daily' divider, and up to 3 in all the others. For example, today is Monday 24th:
  • First I learn a new verse.
  • I then add it to the front of my 'Daily' section, which already has 6 verses, which I revise.
  • I then move the back one in that section (which is the oldest) to the 'Even' section and revise that section.
  • There are already 3 in that section, so I move the back one to the 'Monday' section. and revise those.
  • I move the back one in 'Monday' to the '24' divider, and revise the 3 already in it.
  • The last of those 3 now has been learnt once, revised 6 times daily, 3 times every other day, 3 times once a week, and 3 times once a month, and it is then retired for good -- it should be very well learnt by then!

Additional notes

• For larger passages, you may want to split it up into sections that you can learn in one day. Keep all the sections in the 'Daily' divider until you have learnt the whole passage, then combine the cards so that they become a single item which move around together.

Contributing and copying

This project is work-in-progress, and I would value contributions from other people, in two areas:

• Verses and passages to fill out all the topics.
• Improvements to this web site.

The schemes on this site have been put together using the help of some computer programming. All the programs and the data used are available for free -- and that means 'free' as in 'freedom'.