God heard their groaning and he remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac and with Jacob.

• Exodus 2:24

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as something to be remembered and make sure that Joshua hears it, because I will completely blot out the name of Amalek from under heaven.”

• Exodus 17:14

For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.”

• Hebrews 8:12

for her sins are piled up to heaven, and God has remembered her crimes.

• Revelation 18:5

This quiz is not about the word “remember.”  It is about common memory verses.  For those of you like me, we memorized these verses in the KJV, and, at times, we do searches in the NIV and we cannot find them.

The quiz will be sixteen memory verses with one word left out.  All the verses are from the NIV.  You may not need the word list, but I have provided one.  I did not add any distractor words.  If the word is on the list, it is a word that will answer one of the questions.  I placed the Bible verses in biblical order and the answers in alphabetical order.  I hope that shuffles them adequately.  In this second set of Bible memory verses, I went with more than just nouns or verbs as the answers.

The Questions:

#	Question	Bible Reference	Answer
1	In the beginning God created the _____ and the earth.
2	When I am afraid, I put my ____ in you.
3	_____ for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
4	Great is our Lord and mighty in power;     his _____ has no limit.
5	Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say,     “The Lord will surely ______ me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain,     “I am only a dry tree.”
6	In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and ____ your Father in heaven.
7	Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough _____ of its own.
8	“Enter through the _____ gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
9	For where two or three _____ in my name, there am I with them.”
10	Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your _____ and with all your strength.’
11	Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must _____ themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
12	He replied, “_____ rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”
13	For the message of the cross is _____ to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
14	Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new _____has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
15	being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to _____ until the day of Christ Jesus.
16	_____ yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.

The Word List

Blessed	Devote	Glorify	Shout
Completion	Exclude	Heavens	Trouble
Creation	Foolishness	Mind	Trust
Deny	Gather	Narrow	Understanding

These Bible verses may not include your favorite verse.  The list does not include mine, but let’s say you want to memorize 100 Bible verses out of the 31,102 verses in the Bible, these Bible verses might be among the first 100.  But then, you ask one hundred people for their list of the top 100 verses and there will be considerable variations in the lists.

I tried for ease on these verses.  When the blank is where a verb should be, some of the available answers are then eliminated.  The same could be said for a noun.  Since the answers are only given once, a process of elimination can reveal the other answers.  Of course, with the verbs, if the verb tense makes no sense…

Bible References:

#	Question	Bible Reference	Answer
1	In the beginning God created the _____ and the earth.	Genesis 1:1
2	When I am afraid, I put my ____ in you.	Psalm 56:3
3	_____ for joy to the Lord, all the earth.	Psalm 100:1
4	Great is our Lord and mighty in power;     his _____ has no limit.	Psalm 147:5
5	Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say,     “The Lord will surely ______ me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain,     “I am only a dry tree.”	Isaiah 26:3
6	In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and ____ your Father in heaven.	Matthew 5:16
7	Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough _____ of its own.	Matthew 6:34
8	“Enter through the _____ gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.	Matthew 7:13
9	For where two or three _____ in my name, there am I with them.”	Matthew 18:20
10	Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your _____ and with all your strength.’	Mark 12:30
11	Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must _____ themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.	Luke 9:23
12	He replied, “_____ rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”	Luke 11:28
13	For the message of the cross is _____ to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.	1 Corinthians 1:18
14	Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new _____has come: The old has gone, the new is here!	2 Corinthians 5:17
15	being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to _____ until the day of Christ Jesus.	Philippians 1:6
16	_____ yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.	Colossians 4:2

The Word List

Blessed	Devote	Glorify	Shout
Completion	Exclude	Heavens	Trouble
Creation	Foolishness	Mind	Trust
Deny	Gather	Narrow	Understanding

I have told the testimony in the past where a member of the Hell’s Angels walked into a building when the Board of Directors for the mission was meeting.  I was the youth member of the Board among the founders of the mission.

The Hell’s Angel eventually accepted Jesus as his savior, but when he barged into the meeting, what we were doing was challenging one another with Bible memory verses.  If you have a small group that really clicks well together, challenging each other to Bible verse memorization can build the group even stronger.  You learn Bible verses and you each hold accountability with everyone else in the group.  We could not show up without having memorized the assigned verses.  Of course, the assigned verses, in the Hells’ Angel story matched the subject in evangelism that we would discuss next.  So, everything tied together while knitting the team together.

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The Answers:

#	Question	Bible Reference	Answer
1	In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.	Genesis 1:1	Heavens
2	When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.	Psalm 56:3	Trust
3	Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.	Psalm 100:1	Shout
4	Great is our Lord and mighty in power;     his understanding has no limit.	Psalm 147:5	Understanding
5	Let no foreigner who is bound to the Lord say,     “The Lord will surely exclude me from his people.” And let no eunuch complain,     “I am only a dry tree.”	Isaiah 26:3	Exclude
6	In the same way, let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.	Matthew 5:16	Glorify
7	Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.	Matthew 6:34	Trouble
8	“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.	Matthew 7:13	Narrow
9	For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”	Matthew 18:20	Gather
10	Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’	Mark 12:30	Mind
11	Then he said to them all: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.	Luke 9:23	Deny
12	He replied, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.”	Luke 11:28	Blessed
13	For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.	1 Corinthians 1:18	Foolishness
14	Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!	2 Corinthians 5:17	Creation
15	being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.	Philippians 1:6	Completion
16	Devote yourselves to prayer, being watchful and thankful.	Colossians 4:2	Devote

Whether you did well on this quiz or, not so well, here is Praise to the Lord, the Almighty sung by the BYU Singers.  A very interesting arrangement and great scenery.

Here is the Resonanz Children’s Choir from Jakarta, Indonesia singing, For the Beauty of the Earth.  It is not the best known tune, at least the tune I grew up with, but since my wife was born in Jakarta, Indonesia, I decided to go with this version.

And here is Praise the Lord: Ye Heavens, Adore Him, sung by the Sun Valley, California, Grace Community Church congregation.

And here is Praise the Lord, His Glories Show sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

Why did I pick these four hymns?  These are the first four hymns in the hymnal that I grew up with, The Hymnbook, in the photo above.  It was copyrighted in 1955 by John Ribble, commissioned by three Presbyterian denominations.  The hymnal was reviled by the old folks in our church.  By the time I could read, it was the only hymnal I ever knew in Sunday morning worship until the last twenty years, but on Wednesday night prayer meetings, when growing up, the church brought out the old Broadman Hymnals, much to the delight of the old folks.

This quiz spoke about memory verses.  The hymns that I have as earworms in my head often come from this old hymnal.  I often close my eyes and sing the hymns in church just to find that I am not singing the same words that everyone else is singing.  Same tune, same hymn title, different words – a few or most of the hymn.  I have officially become one of those “old folks” that has difficulty moving on to the new hymnal.  The change from the KJV to the NIV has been a slow, laborious task.  May we never go to a Bible that is not a reliable translation of the original text.

If you like these Saturday morning Bible quizzes, but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Saturday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.