STRIVE Scripture Memory Verses

2016-2017

STRIVE PASSAGE

  • Philippians 3:12-14
  • “12Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

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BASIC TRAINING

  • Matthew 22:37-40
  • “37And he said to him, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. 38This is the great and first commandment. 39And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. 40On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.’”

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UNDER PRESSURE

  • Proverbs 29:25
  • “25The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.”
  • 1 Corinthians 15:33
  • “33Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.’”
  • 1 John 4:13
  • “13By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us, because He has given us of His Spirit.”

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CHANGES

  • Malachi 3:6a
  • “6aFor I the Lord do not change”
  • James 1:17
  • “17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”

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WHAT IS WORSHIP?

  • Romans 12:1-2
  • “1I 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. 2Do 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.”
  • Philippians 1:20-21
  • “20as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. 21For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

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YOU WILL REAP WHAT YOU SOW

  • Galatians 6:7
  • “7Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap.”
  • James 1:22
  • “22But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.”

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PAIN AND SUFFERING

  • Romans 8:28-29
  • “28And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose. 29For those whom He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.”
  • 1 Peter 2:21-24
  • “21For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps. 22He committed no sin, neither was deceit found in his mouth. 23When he was reviled, he did not revile in return; when he suffered, he did not threaten, but continued entrusting himself to Him who judges justly. 24He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.”

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BOYS VS. GIRLS

  • Genesis 1:26-27
  • “26Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ 27So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”
  • Psalm 139:13-14
  • “13For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb. 14I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.”