Bible memorization

The Bible is the best-selling book of all time.

Between 5 to 7 billion Bibles have been published.

Bible memorization has had a number of proponents and practioners throughout Christian history. For example, Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, Hank Hanegraaff were advocates of memorizating the Bible. (Thomas Aquinas and Hank Hanegraaff memorized the entire Bible).

Benefits of memorizing Scripture

• Ten Biblical Reasons to Memorize Scripture, Openthebible.org
• Why Memorize Scripture, Scripture Memory website
• The Many Benefits of Scripture Memorization, Crossway.org
• Why Memorize Scripture

Videos:

• Benefits of memorizing the Bible, Video playlist

Benefits of children memorizing the Bible

• 5 Reasons Kids Should Memorize Scripture, Tyndale website

How to memorize the Bible

Adam Houge, author of the 2015 book How to Memorize the Bible Fast and Easy, recommendations:

• Have faith and confidence in your ability to memorize and God's assistance in this matter rather than have doubt.

• Don't memorize the individual book, chapter and verse number information associated with each verse as a general practice. But if one wants to memorize the Bible book/chapter and verse for key passages regarding doctrine, etc., then this has its place too. However, as explained below, there are mnemonic/memory techniques to make it far easier to remember the Bible book, chapter and verse number information for Bible verses.

Your Memory : How It Works and How to Improve It by Kenneth L. Higbee, Da Capo Lifelong Books; 2nd edition (March 2, 2001)

Various books on memory improvement show how to effectively remember large amounts of numerical/detailed information. Besides this information, the psychologist Dr. Kenneth Higbee offers information on how to memorize Bible book/chapter/verse numbers using a commonly used memory system called the phonetic system (Your Memory : How It Works and How to Improve It by Kenneth L. Higbee, Da Capo Lifelong Books; 2nd edition (March 2, 2001), page 186-187).

Article:

• How to Memorize Entire Books of the Bible

Academic study on Bible memorization: Topical Bible study vs. memorizing entire books of the Bible

• A mixed-methods study comparing the perceived spiritual benefits of topical and extended Scripture memorization by Andy Johnson, Ed.D., SOUTHEASTERN BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY, 2010

Books on Bible memorization

• How to Memorize the Bible: (Illustrated) by William Evans, Originally published in 1910 (Free versions of How to Memorize the Bible by William Evans).
• How to Memorize Scripture for Life: From One Verse to Entire Books by Andrew M. Davis. Crossway (January 16, 2024)
• How to Memorize the Bible Fast and Easy by Adam Houge. Living Tree Publishing (February 17, 2015)
• Scripture Memorization Made Possible: Moving Beyond Rote to Memorize Large Portions of the Bible by Leilani Charis. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (August 8, 2014)

External links

• Bible Memory Goal, YouTube channel

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