Prioritizing the Gospel Monthly Memory Verses

This year, as we focus on Prioritizing the Gospel, we would like to meditate on and seek to memorize a series of Bible verses together as a church family. One passage per month is the goal.

There is great value in hiding God’s word in your heart (Psalm 119:11) and seeking to memorize these passages so you can call them to mind at any time, teach our children (Deuteronomy 6:6-7), and disciple others.

There is also great value in simply mediating on them throughout the day and drinking deeply from the word of God (Psalm 1:1-3), thinking about concentrated truths that exalt the person and work of Jesus throughout the day.

Some find it helpful to write these passages out on index cards, some use Bible memory apps, some highlight these passages in their Bibles for easy reference, and some do all three! We pray these passages are a blessing to you and help our whole church family prioritize the gospel this year.

May our prioritization of the gospel not be something we simply say we ought to do, but may it by applied in the practical way of letting the word of Christ richly dwell within us so that our lives would overflow with praise and thanksgiving to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. (Colossians 3:16-17)

1. January – Romans 1:16-17 – ¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. ¹⁷ For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “But the righteous man shall live by faith.”
2. February – Galatians 3:13-14 – ¹³ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the Law, having become a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”— ¹⁴ in order that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we would receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
3. March – Ephesians 2:8-10 – ⁸ For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; ⁹ not as a result of works, so that no one may boast. ¹⁰ For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.
4. April – 1 Corinthians 15:1-5 – ¹ Now I make known to you, brethren, the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, ² by which also you are saved, if you hold fast the word which I preached to you, unless you believed in vain. ³ For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, ⁵ and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve.
5. May – Mark 10:45 – ⁴⁵ For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
6. June – Romans 3:23-26 – ²³ for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, ²⁴ being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; ²⁵ whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. This was to demonstrate His righteousness, because in the forbearance of God He passed over the sins previously committed; ²⁶ for the demonstration, I say, of His righteousness at the present time, so that He would be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
   Romans 6:23 – ²³ For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
7. July – Romans 10:9-10 – ⁹ that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; ¹⁰ for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
8. August – Genesis 3:15 – ¹⁵ And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; he shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.
9. September – 1 Timothy 2:3-6 – ³ This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, ⁴ who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. ⁵ For there is one God, and one mediator also between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ⁶ who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the proper time.
10. October – Isaiah 53:4-6 – ⁴ Surely our griefs He Himself bore, and our sorrows He carried; yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. ⁵ But He was pierced through for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, and by His scourging we are healed. ⁶ All of us like sheep have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; but the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on Him.
    
11. November – Galatians 2:20 – ²⁰ I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
12. December – 2 Corinthians 5:20-21 – ²⁰ Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ²¹ He made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.