Most Christians want to memorize more Scripture, but they feel intimidated at the thought of reading through the entire Bible and taking notes. I've done it for you. The pages of this website have many key Bible verses for important topics.
Guarantees in life include change (Pro 27:1), challenges (Jn 10:10 and 16:33), opportunities (Gal 6:10, Eph 5:15-17 and Lk 8:15), and choices (Gen 1:27-28, Pro 18:21, Ro 12:2, Gal 5:16, and 2 Cor 10:5).
Contents of this page include the Scripture Foundation Guide
Near the bottom of the page you can also get a free copy of the Key Bible Verses book.
These Bible verses are based on the King James Version (KJV).
Salvation: For God so loved the world, that he gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life (Jn 3:16). Confess that Jesus is Lord, believe in your heart God raised Him from the dead, and you will be saved (Ro 10:19).
Believe: Jesus was delivered for our offenses and raised for our justification (Ro 4:25). By one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one will many be made righteous (Ro 5:19). Don’t fear, believe (Mk 5:36). Confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved (Ro 10:9).
Prophecy: A virgin will bear a son (Isa 7:14, Mt 1:23). Bethlehem will bear the ruler of Israel (Mic 5:2, Lk 2:4-7). He was despised and rejected (Isa 53:3, Jn 1:11). They pierced Him (Ps 22:16, Mt 27:35). He was numbered with the transgressors (Isa 53:12, Mk 15:27).
Relationship with God: We are a spirit with a soul in a body (1Th 5:23). God gave us a spirit not of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind (2Tim 1:7). God knows our heart (Pro 21:2). But without faith it is impossible to please Him: for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He rewards them who diligently seek Him (Heb 11:6). Jesus answered them saying, Have faith in God (Mk 11:22).
Grace: All have sinned (Ro 3:23). He saved us, not because of works (Ti 3:5), by grace are you saved through faith (Eph 2:8). Grace and peace to you (Ro 1:7). The law was given by Moses, grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (Jn 1:17). Jesus fulfilled the law for us (Mt 5:17)
Truth: By God all things were created (Col 1:16). God’s word is truth (Jn 17:17). God judges everyone equally (Ro 2:11), even our secrets (Ro 2:16). The wrath of God from heaven is against those who manipulate the truth (Ro 1:18). Worship in spirit and truth (Jn 4:24).
Sin: Christ Jesus has freed us from the law of sin and death (Ro 8:2). Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone (Jn 8:7).
Repent: Repent, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins, and receive the gift of the Holy Spirit (Ac 2:38).
Confess: If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1Jn 1:9).
Baptism: He commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord (Ac 10:48). Buried with Him through baptism (Col 2:12)
Holy Spirit: But the Comforter, which is the Holy Spirit, who the Father sent in the name of Jesus, He will teach you all things (Jn 14:26). You will be baptized with the Holy Spirit (Ac 1:5). The Holy Spirit dwells in us (2Tim 1:14). The Spirit also helps our infirmities (Ro 8:26).
New Covenant: God spoke of a new covenant (Jer 31:31). If the ministry of condemnation has glory, the ministry of righteousness exceeds it in glory (2Cor 3:9). If righteousness come by the law, Christ died in vain (Gal 2:21). Serve in newness of Spirit (Ro 7:6).
New Life: Put on a new self in the likeness of God in righteousness and true holiness (Eph 4:24). Follow that which is good (3Jn 1:11).
Courage: Be strong and courageous. Do not be scared, or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go (Josh 1:9).
Trust: Blessed are those who trust in the LORD (Jer 17:7). Cast your cares upon Him (Php 4:6). Christ makes all things new (Rev 21:5).
Faith: Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God (Ro 10:17). Jesus answered them saying, Have faith in God (Mk 11:22). Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Heb 11:1). Our conversation is in heaven (Php 3:20).
Hope: Hope that is seen is not hope (Ro 8:24). With people this is impossible; but with God all things are possible (Mt 19:26). Be sober and hope to the end (1Pt 1:13). The LORD has plans for you, for peace not evil (Jer 29:11). Faith, hope, and love abide (1Cor 13:13).
Love: Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth (1Jn 3:18). Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love brags not, is not puffed up, does not behave unseemingly, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; rejoices not in iniquity, but rejoices in truth (1Cor 13:4). No person has greater love than to lay down their life for their friends (Jn 15:13). Let all things be done with love (1Cor 16:14). Nothing can separate us from the love of God, in Christ Jesus our Lord (Ro 8:38-39).
Commandments: Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like it, love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all law (Mt 22:37-39).
Joy: God of hope fill you with joy and peace (Ro 15:13). The joy of the LORD is your strength (Neh 8:10). Your love gives me joy (Phm 7).
Peace: Peace from God (Phm 3). Perfect peace whose mind is stayed on God (Isa 26:3). Blessed are the peacemakers (Mt 5:9).
Pray: Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil (Mt 6:9-13).
Praise and Worship: O praise the LORD, all you nations: praise Him, all you people! (Ps 117:1). In the midst of church will I sing praise unto God (Heb 2:12). Worship the Father in spirit and in truth (Jn 4:24). It is written you shall only worship the Lord your God (Lk 4:8).
Respect: Whatever you want done to you, do to other people (Mt 7:12). Let nothing be done through conflict or pompous pride; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other people better than themselves (Php 2:3) Do not grumble against one another (Jas 5:9).
Authority: One God and Father of all, above all, in all (Eph 4:6). Jesus gave us spiritual authority (Lk10:19). We must obey God (Acts 5:29)
Wisdom: The wise seek knowledge (Pro 18:15). Wisdom is better than gold (Pro 3:15). Wisdom from above is pure, peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good works, without partiality or hypocrisy (Jas 3:17). God can give wisdom, knowledge, and understanding (Jas 1:5). A fool is right in his eyes: but the wise seek counsel (Pro 12:15). You will be judged by how you judge (Mt 7:2).
Forgive: Be kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God has forgiven you (Eph 4:32).
Be: Be strong and of good courage (Jos 1:9). Be transformed (Ro 12:2). Be humble (Jas 4:6). Fruit of the Spirit includes love, joy, peace, faith, and temperance (Gal 5:22-23). Be doers of the Word (Jas 1:22). Be prepared to respectfully defend your faith (1 Pt 3:15).
Know: Know the truth, and the truth will set you free (Jn 8:32). Jesus said; I have not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it (Mt 5:17). Jesus came so we can have life, and have it more abundantly (Jn 10:10). Greater is He who is in me, than he who is in the world (1Jn 4:4).
Do: Keep God’s commandments in your heart (Pro 3:1). Trust in the LORD with all your heart (Pro 3:5). Jesus said; he who believes on me will do the works I do (Jn 14:12). By works is faith made perfect (Jas 2:22). Go therefore make disciples and baptize (Mt 28:19).
Allies: Jesus and God (Jn 10:29-30). Holy Spirit (Ac 1:8). Angels (Ps 91:11). There is a friend closer than a family member (Pro 18:24).
Heart: Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me (Ps 51:10, Ez 36:26). Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life (Pro 4:23). A joyful heart does good like medicine (Pro 17:22). The LORD considers the heart (Pro 21:2).
Mind: Be not conformed to this world: be transformed by renewing your mind (Ro 12:2) Be not easily shaken in mind (2Th2:2).
Emotional Intelligence: Govern your spirit (Pro 25:28). Be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger (Jas 1:19). Who is slow to anger has great understanding (Pro 14:29). Rejoice with those who rejoice (Ro 12:15). Know how to answer each person (Col 4:6).
Freedom: Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (2Cor 3:17). Walk in the Spirit and you will not fulfill lust of the flesh (Gal 5:16).
Words: Death and life are in the power of the tongue (Pro 18:21). A soft answer turns away wrath (Pro 15:1). A person has joy by their answer (Pro 15:23). Speak the truth in love (Eph 4:15). Speak evil of no one (Ti 3:2). Let your yes be yes; and your no, no (Jas 5:12).
Thank: Giving thanks always for all things unto God (Eph 5:20). Every good gift and every perfect gift are from above (Jas 1:17).
Think: Take all thoughts captive (2Cor 10:5). Think on what is true, honest, just, pure, lovely, commendable, virtuous, of praise (Php 4:8).
Discern: Believe not every spirit, but try the spirits to see if they are of God (1Jn 4:1). That you may prove what is good (Ro 12:2).
Plan: Thoughts of the diligent lead to plenty (Pro 21:5). Who, desiring to build, does not first count the cost to complete it? (Lk 14:28).
Prepare: If we purge our self from sin we will be ready for good work (2 Tim 2:21). Commit your way to the Lord, trust in Him and He will act (Ps 37:5). Put on the armor of God (Eph 6:14-17). May God sanctify you and preserve your spirit, soul and body (1Th 5:23).
Focus: We are His workmanship (Eph 2:10). Everyone has a gift (1Pt 4:10). Look forward, consider your path and turn not (Pro 4:25-27).
Be Aware: Wisdom is better than strength (Ecc 9:16). Be careful, not foolish (Eph 5:15). Good behavior is rewarded, bad behavior punished (Mt 24:45-51). Fear not who kills the body, fear who can kill the soul (Mt 10:28). No one knows when the end will come (Mt 24:36).
Be Honest: The LORD hates a proud look, lying tongue, murder, who plans wickedness, who is quick to mischief, and stirs conflict (Pro 6:16-19).
Be Humble: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time (1Pt 5:6, Jas 4:10).
Be Diligent: Thoughts of the diligent lead to plenty (Pro 21:5). Add to your faith, virtue, knowledge, self-control, patience (2Pt 1:5-6).
Be Patient: Who is hasty with their feet sins (Pro 19:2). Rejoice in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing in prayer (Ro 12:12).
Be Blessed: (Mt 5:3-9). Blessed is he who is not offended by Jesus (Lk 7:23). Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD (Ps 33:12).
Relations: Iron sharpens iron (Pro 27:17). Walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another (1Jn1:7). You are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God (Eph2:19).
Spouse: Every one of you in particular love his wife as himself and the wife see that she respects her husband (Eph 5:33).
Parents: Train children (Pro 22:6). Discipline children (Pro 13:24). Do not provoke them to anger (Eph 6:4), or leave them to their self (Pro 29:15)
Children: Honor your father and your mother (Ex 20:12), listen to their teaching (Pro 1:8), and obey them (Eph 6:1).
Habits: In an honest and good heart, having heard the Word, keep it, and bear fruit with patience (Lk 8:15).
Build Up: Do not speak corrupting talk, only what is good to build up (Eph 4:29). Set a guard, O LORD, over my mouth (Ps 141: 3).
Submit and Resist: Submit to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee (Jas 4:7). Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me (Ps 27:11).
Seek Help: My help comes from the LORD (Ps 121:2). I can do all things through Christ (Php 4:13) and the Holy Spirit (Ro 8:11). God did not give us a spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind (2Tim 1:7). Be strong in the Lord and in His power (Eph 6:10). Why do you sit alone (Exo 18:14)? Where no counsel is, people fall (Pro 11:14). Grow up into Him in all things (Eph 4:15).
Help People: Bear other’s burdens (Gal 6:2). Visit fatherless and widows (Jas 1:27). Plea, pray, intercede, give thanks, for all (1Tim 2:1).
Give: Glory to God (1Cor 10:31). It is more blessed to give than receive (Ac 20:35). We do not receive if we ask for our flesh (Jas 4:3).
Persevere: Be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord (1Cor 15:58). Do not be weary in well doing (Gal 6:9).
Serve: As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD (Jos 24:15). Use your gifts to serve people, as good stewards (1Pt 4:10).
Save: Jesus came to seek and to save the lost (Lk 19:10). Go into all the world, and proclaim the gospel (Mk 16:15).
Adversaries: Desires of the flesh, like envy, anger, lust, and idolatry (Gal 5:17-21). The devil (1Pt 5:8) and spiritual forces of evil (Eph 6:12).
Conflict: If your someone sins against you, tell them their fault, between you and them alone (Mt 18:15). Save people (Jude 23).
Do Not Fear: I will fear no evil, God is with me (Ps 23:4). Be of good courage and He will strengthen your heart (Ps 27:14). All things work together for good to them who love God (Ro 8:28). The LORD is my refuge and fortress (Ps 91:2). In the world you will have trouble, be of good cheer; Jesus overcame the world (Jn 16:33). Have no fellowship with darkness (Eph 5:11). Be not afraid, believe (Mk 5:36).
Respect Your Body: Your body is a temple (1Cor 3:16). Much honey is not good (Pro 25:27). Bodily exercise is profitable (1Tim 4:8).
Respect Alcohol: Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever is deceived by them is not wise (Pro 20:1).
Respect Anger: Let not the sun set on your wrath (Eph 4:26). Put away bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, evil talk, malice (Eph 4:31).
Respect Sex: Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled (Heb 13:4). For this cause will a man leave his father and mother, and will unite with his wife: and they will be one flesh (Mt 19:5). How fair and how pleasant are you, O love, for delights (Sng 7:6).
Respect Money: The hand of the diligent makes rich (Pro 10:4). Love of money is the root of all evil (1Tim 6:10). Better is the poor that walks in integrity, than a rich person who is perverse in their ways (Pro 28:6). The borrower is servant to the lender (Pro 22:7).
Delay Gratification: Who has no rule over their own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls (Pro 25:28).
The following Key Bible Verses book is free for personal download or to print.
It includes the Scripture Foundation Guide, the Christian Wisdom Guide, the Christian Daily Prayer, 10 Key Christian Beliefs, 20 Key Bible Characters and Story Highlights, and 60 Encouraging Bible Verses.
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