Discipleship

Your First 5 Scripture Memory Verses

The first five are God’s assurances especially for new believers:

1. Salvation

And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. (1John 5:11-12 ESV)

2. Prayer

Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full. (John 16:24 ESV)

3. Victory over tempation

No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it. (1Cor 10:13 ESV)

4. Forgiveness

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. (1John 1:9 ESV)

5. Guidance

Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths (Prov 3:5-6 ESV)

Your Second 8 Scripture Memory Verses

The next eight verses will help you experience God’s guidance, encouragement and strength through knowing and obeying His word.

1. His Lordship

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (Mat 6:33 ESV)

2. His Strength

I can do all things through him who strengthens me. (Phil 4:13 ESV)

3. His Word

How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word. With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments! I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. (Psa 119:9-11 ESV)

4. His Love

A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another. (John 13:34-35 ESV)

5. Your Giving

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. (2Co 9:7 ESV)

6. Your Worship

I was glad when they said to me, “Let us go to the house of the LORD!” (Psa 122:1 ESV)

7. Your Good Works (based on Christ’s righteousness)

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:10 ESV)

8. Your Witness

“Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” (Mar 5:19b ESV)

17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. (2Co 5:17 ESV)
20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. (Gal 2:20 ESV)
1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. (Rom 12:1 ESV)
21 Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” (Joh 14:21 ESV)
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, (2Ti 3:16 ESV)
8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success. (Jos 1:8 ESV)
7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. (Joh 15:7 ESV)
6 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. (Phi 4:6-7 ESV)
20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” (Mat 18:20 ESV)
24 And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near. (Heb 10:24-25 ESV)
19 And he said to them, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” (Mat 4:19 ESV)
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. (Rom 1:16 ESV)

All men have sinned and turned away from God (Isa 53:6; Rom 3:23)
Penalty of sin is death and future judgment (Rom 6:23; Heb 9:27)
Christ paid sin’s penalty to bring men back to God (Rom 5:8; 1 Pet 3:18)
God saves men by His grace not by men’s works (Eph 2:8-9; Tit 3:5)
Receive Jesus Christ by faith (Jn 1:12, Rev 3:20)
Eternal life by believing in Jesus Christ (Jn 5:24; 1 Jn 5:13)

6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned– every one– to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isa 53:6 ESV)
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, (Rom 3:23 ESV)
23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom 6:23 ESV)
27 And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, (Heb 9:27 ESV)
8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Rom 5:8 ESV)
18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, (1Pe 3:18 ESV)
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,
9 not a result of works, so that no one may boast. 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Eph 2:8-10 ESV)
5 he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, (Tit 3:5 ESV)
12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, (Joh 1:12 ESV)
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. (Rev 3:20 ESV)
24 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me has eternal life. He does not come into judgment, but has passed from death to life. (Joh 5:24 ESV)
13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life. (1Jo 5:13 ESV)

God’s Indwelling Spirit (1 Cor 2:12; 3:16)
God’s Strength (Isa 41:10; Phi 4:13)
God’s Faithfulness (Num 23:19; Lam 3:22-23)
God’s Peace (Isa 26:3; 1 Pet 5:7)
God’s Provision (Rom 8:32; Phi 4:19)
God’s Help in Temptation (Ps 119:9-11; Heb 2:18)

12 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God. (1Co 2:12 ESV)
16 Do you not know that you are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in you? (1Co 3:16 ESV)
10 fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. (Isa 41:10 ESV)
13 I can do all things through him who strengthens me. (Phi 4:13 ESV)
9 How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.
10 With my whole heart I seek you; let me not wander from your commandments!
11 I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you. (Psa 119:9-11 ESV)
18 For because he himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted. (Heb 2:18-1 ESV)

Seek Christ first and take up His cross (Matt 6:33; Lk 9:23)
Be transformed and do not love the world (Rom 12:2; 1 Jn 2:15-16)
Be steadfast and consider Jesus (1 Cor 15:58; Heb 12:3)
Serve others and proclaim Christ (Mk 10:45; 2 Cor 4:5)
Honor the LORD and give cheerfully (Prov 3:9-10; 2 Cor 9:6-7)
Make disciples and witness for Christ (Matt 28:19-20; Acts 1:8)

33 But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (Mat 6:33 ESV)
23 And he said to all, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. (Luk 9:23 ESV)
2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect. (Rom 12:2 ESV)
15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world– the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life– is not from the Father but is from the world. (1Jo 2:15-16 ESV)
58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain. (1Co 15:58 ESV)
3 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. (Heb 12:3 ESV)
45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.” (Mar 10:45 ESV)
5 For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. (2Co 4:5 ESV)
9 Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your produce;
10 then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine. (Pro 3:9-10 ESV)
6 The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. (2Co 9:6-7 ESV)
19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.” (Mat 28:19-20 ESV)
8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Act 1:8 ESV)

Love one another, in deed and in truth (Jn 13:34-35; 1 Jn 3:18)
Humility before men and God (Phi 2:3-4; 1 Pet 5:5-6)
Avoid all impurity and fleshly passions (Eph 5:3; 1 Pet 2:11)
Honest and Conscientious (Lev 19:11; Acts 24:16)
Grow Strong in Faith and draw near to God (Rom 4:20-21; Heb 11:6)
Shine for God and do good to everyone (Matt 5:16; Gal 6:9-10)

34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (Joh 13:34-35 ESV)
18 Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. (1Jo 3:18 ESV)
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. (Phi 2:3-4 ESV)
5 Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, (1Pe 5:5-6 ESV)
3 But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. (Eph 5:3 ESV)
11 Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul. (1Pe 2:11 ESV)
11 “You shall not steal; you shall not deal falsely; you shall not lie to one another. (Lev 19:11 ESV)
16 So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man. (Act 24:16 ESV)
20 No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, 21 fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. (Rom 4:20-21 ESV)
6 And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. (Heb 11:6 ESV)
16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. (Mat 5:16 ESV)
9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.
10 So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith. (Gal 6:9-10 ESV)