Memory Verses for Bible Stories for Sunday school and home

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:1 · 10 words

The first words of the Bible: God made everything.

God looked upon all that He had made, and indeed, it was very good.

Genesis 1:31 · 14 words

What God saw at the end of the sixth day.

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Romans 3:23 · 12 words

Since Adam and Eve, everyone has sinned. That is why we need Jesus.

So Noah did everything precisely as God had commanded him.

Genesis 6:22 · 10 words

Noah obeyed God even when building an ark seemed strange.

I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

Genesis 9:13 · 22 words

God’s promise after the flood. The rainbow is His sign.

Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:18 · 11 words

The builders wanted to make a name for themselves. Pride comes before a fall.

Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

Genesis 15:6 · 12 words

Abram believed God’s promise of a family as many as the stars.

In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 3:6 · 13 words

Abraham’s servant prayed for guidance, and God led him to Rebekah.

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Look, I am with you, and I will watch over you wherever you go.

Genesis 28:15 · 14 words

God’s promise to Jacob in his dream at Bethel.

As for you, what you intended against me for evil, God intended for good.

Genesis 50:20 · 14 words

Joseph to his brothers, years after they sold him.

The LORD will guard you from all evil; He will preserve your soul.

Psalm 121:7 · 13 words

God watched over baby Moses in the basket on the Nile.

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I AM WHO I AM.

Exodus 3:14 · 5 words

The name God told Moses from the burning bush.

When I see the blood, I will pass over you.

Exodus 12:13 · 10 words

The blood of the lamb kept God’s people safe, pointing ahead to Jesus, the Lamb of God.

The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.

Exodus 14:14 · 12 words

What Moses told the people with the sea in front and the army behind.

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You shall have no other gods before Me.

Exodus 20:3 · 8 words

The first commandment: God comes first.

If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

John 14:15 · 9 words

Jesus says love for Him shows in obeying Him.

By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.

Hebrews 11:30 · 17 words

The walls fell because the people trusted God and did what He said.

The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.

Judges 6:12 · 10 words

The angel called Gideon brave while he was still hiding. God saw what He would make of him.

Wherever you go, I will go, and wherever you live, I will live; your people will be my people, and your God will be my God.

Ruth 1:16 · 26 words

Ruth’s loyal promise to Naomi.

Speak, for Your servant is listening.

1 Samuel 3:10 · 6 words

Young Samuel’s answer when God called him in the night.

The battle is the LORD’s.

1 Samuel 17:47 · 5 words

David knew the giant was God’s to defeat.

I come against you in the name of the LORD of Hosts.

1 Samuel 17:45 · 12 words

David’s words to Goliath.

The LORD, He is God! The LORD, He is God!

1 Kings 18:39 · 10 words

What the people shouted when fire fell from heaven.

And who knows if perhaps you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

Esther 4:14 · 17 words

Mordecai to Esther: perhaps she had been placed where she was for a reason.

He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace.

Daniel 3:17 · 11 words

Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego trusted God before the king.

My God sent His angel and shut the mouths of the lions.

Daniel 6:22 · 12 words

Daniel’s words to the king the next morning.

Salvation is from the LORD!

Jonah 2:9 · 5 words

The end of Jonah’s prayer from inside the fish.

Today in the city of David a Savior has been born to you. He is Christ the Lord!

Luke 2:11 · 18 words

The angel’s good news to the shepherds.

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And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man.

Luke 2:52 · 14 words

Jesus grew up, as children do, in body, mind and in favor with God and people.

This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!

Matthew 3:17 · 11 words

The Father’s voice from heaven over Jesus.

Come, follow Me.

Mark 1:17 · 3 words

Jesus called fishermen to follow Him, and they left their nets.

Do whatever He tells you.

John 2:5 · 5 words

Mary to the servants, just before Jesus turned water into wine.

Who is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?

Mark 4:41 · 12 words

The disciples’ question after the storm stopped.

I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.

John 6:35 · 21 words

What Jesus said the day after He fed the crowd.

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Take courage! It is I. Do not be afraid.

Matthew 14:27 · 9 words

Jesus to the frightened disciples in the boat.

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Love your neighbor as yourself.

Mark 12:31 · 5 words

Jesus told the parable to show who our neighbor is.

Rejoice with me, for I have found my lost sheep!

Luke 15:6 · 10 words

The shepherd’s joy, and God’s joy over every person who comes home.

For this son of mine was dead and is alive again! He was lost and is found!

Luke 15:24 · 17 words

The father’s words when his son came home.

For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

Luke 19:10 · 13 words

What Jesus said at Zacchaeus’s house.

Let the little children come to Me, and do not hinder them! For the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.

Matthew 19:14 · 22 words

Jesus welcomed the children the disciples tried to send away.

I am the resurrection and the life.

John 11:25 · 7 words

Jesus to Martha, before He raised her brother.

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He is not here; He has risen, just as He said!

Matthew 28:6 · 11 words

The angel’s words at the empty tomb.

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For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:16 · 27 words

Why Jesus died: God so loved the world.

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But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you, and you will be My witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.

Acts 1:8 · 33 words

Jesus’ promise of the Holy Spirit, kept on the day of Pentecost.

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away. Behold, the new has come!

2 Corinthians 5:17 · 21 words

Paul knew what it was to become new. He wrote these words years later.

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

Acts 16:25 · 20 words

They prayed and sang in the dark, and everyone heard.

Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved.

Acts 16:31 · 10 words

Their answer to the jailer who asked how to be saved.