Memory Verse Cards
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In one sentence: print this page on A4, cut along the dashed lines, and carry eight verses in the words God first gave them, with the English beside them.
✝️ Psalm 119:11 (ESV) I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.
The verb is צָפַנְתִּי (tsafanti, H6845), from the root used of Moses' mother hiding her son for three months in Exodus 2:2: something hidden away because it is treasured and must be kept safe. God gave His word to be kept that way, close enough to reach for when you are tempted, and so you may carry it with you.
How to print
- Choose Cards for one-sided cards with everything on one face, or Flashcards for a prompt on the front and the verse on the back.
- Print at A4, 100 % / actual size, with margins set to none and headers and footers off. Turn background graphics on.
- For flashcards, print double-sided, flip on long edge. The backs are mirrored so each lands behind its own front.
- Cut on the dashed lines. The tick marks in the margin line up a guillotine with each cut.
Each card is 95 × 67.5 mm, eight to a sheet. Empty places on the last sheet print as blank ruled cards for a verse of your own.
Reading a card
- Original words run in their own direction: Hebrew right to left, Greek left to right.
- Transliteration sits under each word, split into syllables, with the stressed syllable underlined: be·re·shit.
- Gloss under that is a word-for-word aid, not a translation. The ESV and the WEB below it are.
- Where the ESV and WEB read identically, the card prints the verse once and names both.
Learning a verse
The flashcard front gives the reference, the first original word and the first letter of each English word: I t b, G c t h a t e. Recite from those letters, then turn the card over to check. Each correct recitation earns a tick in one of the circles beneath, at 1, 2, 4, 7, 14 and 30 days after you learn it. Widening gaps like these are what move a verse from short-term recall into long-term memory.
The cards
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. ESV
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. BSB
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ESV · BSB
2And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness. ESV
Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness. BSB
3For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. ESV
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. BSB
4But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ESV
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. BSB
5For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. ESV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. BSB
6Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. ESV
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. BSB
7For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ESV
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. BSB
8that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. ESV
I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. BSB
9I t b, G c t h a t e.
I t b w t W, a t W w w G, a t W w G.
A h b t L, a h c i t h a r.
F b g y h b s t f. A t i n y o d; i i t g o G, n a r o w, s t n o m b.
B h w p f o t; h w c f o i; u h w t c t b u p, a w h w w a h.
F t w o s i d, b t f g o G i e l i C J o L.
H, O I: T L o G, t L i o.
F G s l t w, t h g h o S, t w b i h s n p b h e l.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. ESV
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. BSB
1In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ESV · BSB
2And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness. ESV
Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness. BSB
3For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. ESV
For it is by grace you have been saved through faith, and this not from yourselves; it is the gift of God, not by works, so that no one can boast. BSB
4But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. ESV
But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. BSB
5For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. ESV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. BSB
6Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. ESV
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is One. BSB
7For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. ESV
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. BSB
8t a t t r o h g h m g y t b s w p t h S i y i b, s t C m d i y h t f—t y, b r a g i l, m h s t c w a t s w i t b a l a h a d, a t k t l o C t s k, t y m b f w a t f o G.
that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. ESV
I ask that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Then you, being rooted and grounded in love, will have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. BSB
9Sources
The Hebrew and Greek words, transliteration and glosses are from STEPBible.org's Translators Amalgamated Hebrew OT (TAHOT) and Greek NT (TAGNT), CC BY. Hebrew follows the Leningrad Codex and reads the Qere where the scribes marked one; cantillation marks are removed for legibility. Greek is the Nestle-Aland text. Scripture quotations marked ESV are from the ESV® Bible, © 2001 by Crossway, used by permission (see Copyright & Scripture Permissions). The World English Bible is in the public domain.