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Congratulations, on this and on reaching 6 months! It’s great to hear that you’re enjoying it again after your reset. God bless you!

I too am working through Hebrews now. I’ve reached the middle of chapter 5. But I know what you mean about the ‘logic’ of chapter 4. As I review it, I’m increasingly realising that I don’t have a very firm grasp of God’s offer to us to enter his eternal rest ‘today’, and to live in the reality of that rest.

Thanks Joosep. Your commitment to scripture memory is motivational, and what’s more, you are a great encourager.

No, I don’t review verses that have reached 100% - they’re in a category you could call ‘I know this verse now, more-or-less’. Reaching 100% on this site is not the same, for me, as word-perfect perfect recall.
But when a chapter comes up for review, I do use ‘test-instead-of-read’ until there are just a few verses left, so I am reviewing the 100% verses in that case.

Woohoo! It took me 6 years to reach 1000, and nearly another six years to get to 2000!

Woohoo! It took me 6 years to reach 1000, and nearly another six years to get to 2000!

A big congratulations. That's a marvelous achievment.

One question: do you ever review your verses which have reached 100%, or do you turn your full attention to fully new verses?

No, I don’t review verses that have reached 100% - they’re in a category you could call ‘I know this verse now, more-or-less’. Reaching 100% on this site is not the same, for me, as word-perfect perfect recall.
But when a chapter comes up for review, I do use ‘test-instead-of-read’ until there are just a few verses left, so I am reviewing the 100% verses in that case.

thank you for sharing that. Recently I've begun using a spreadsheet to "memorize"some specific areas of the Bible. The spreadsheet determines when I will review the passage again. I expect I'll do it almost the same as you, moving on after the passage reaches 100 percent. Some of these verses are passages which I'm memorizing for the 2nd time, having done a big reset several months ago. I pray to be consistent with this, as some others are here.

I put "memorize" in quotation marks because I believe I'm doing it in a way similar to you -- I use hints, for example.

So I'm aiming to reach 100 percent, but not for word for word perfect recall.

Thanks Joosep. Your commitment to scripture memory is motivational, and what’s more, you are a great encourager.

thank you

You’re both a big encouragement!

That’s the latest chapter I’ve started learning too! Thank God that we who have believed can enter his rest!

Congratulations! It’s rather satisfying to get to 100%, after a year or more of testing. Here’s to many more!

Congratulations, and God bless you!

Thanks Joosep, that’s quite satisfying - my first badge upgrade in more than 4 years now!

Congratulations, PeterP! I checked it, since I couldn't quite remember; and as you know, it means that verse sets you have created publicly have been used by others at least 100 times, and also that those sets are still being used by others.

Thanks Joosep, that’s quite satisfying - my first badge upgrade in more than 4 years now!

That’s very impressive. God bless you!

Thanks Joosep. I’ve decided to carry on through Hebrews, so that will keep me busy for the next year or so.

keep up the good work, and may the Lord bless you as you read, meditate and memorise

Thanks Joosep. I’ve decided to carry on through Hebrews, so that will keep me busy for the next year or so.

Thanks, Moviegoer, for sharing your method in such detail. It is encouraging and inspiring to see your commitment. I’ve just added Hebrews 1 and 2 too, but I’m content with the partial memorisation that I get from following the website’s built-in schedule. Until now, I’d never noticed how wonderful Hebrews 2:14-18 is as a summary of the eternal covenant that God has made with Jesus on our behalf.

Congratulations!

Good morning, Joosep! I’m not sure yet. I added Hebrews 1 because I’d learnt several individual verses and I wanted to consolidate the context, and then Hebrews 2 seems to flow naturally on from that. Let’s see whether I might continue through the book.

Good morning, PeterP. Are you adding one verse per day to Hebrews?

Good morning, Joosep! I’m not sure yet. I added Hebrews 1 because I’d learnt several individual verses and I wanted to consolidate the context, and then Hebrews 2 seems to flow naturally on from that. Let’s see whether I might continue through the book.

Thank you for sharing that. I worked on Hebrews a few years ago, but got bogged down somewhere around chapter 7.
At the moment I'm working on Zechariah, adding one verse per day and making it a priority to review and repeat them when they come due. Zechariah 1:1 is currently at about 70 percent, and the newest I added today was Zech 3:2. I started this on 20 December and also I'm listening to a sermon series on Zech. as I go along. I'm not aiming for recitation quality, but just using the Learn Scripture system, including the hints, to advance them as much as I can.
I pray now that the Lord will bless your time spent in Hebrews!

I posted in error using Ebed-Melech. This is joosep, actually. I use Ebed-melech for individual verses.

Thank you for sharing how you choose a verse and represent it visually. That sounds very powerful and satisfying (although I myself am not a visual learner). And I checked out your ‘walk through John’ verses, and it is surprising how well you’ve captured the essence of the book in just one or two verses from each chapter. God bless you as you continue to spend time with him.

Yes, it’s a cry ‘out of the depths’, but it’s a cry of faith and hope.
I like the song by Shane and Shane based on this psalm https://youtu.be/l8pCbtLeXzc?feature=shared

I looked up this Psalm. Two verses which got my attention were verses 3 and 4. If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with You, that You may be feared. (NKJV)

Yes, it’s a cry ‘out of the depths’, but it’s a cry of faith and hope.
I like the song by Shane and Shane based on this psalm https://youtu.be/l8pCbtLeXzc?feature=shared

Zac Fitzsimmons Music this guy sings esv Psalms on youtube

And Esther Mui sings Psalm 130 KJV on youtube. (Happy New Year all!)

Congratulations! I hope you’re enjoying your new account.

How’s the Mark project going?

I'm posting a personal milestone here… I just added the last verse of John 9, which means that I’ve started learning the whole of John. (I’ve added chapters in a strange order!)
Looking at the numbers, I see there are 878 verses in John, and I’ve so far completed 436 of them, which is almost exactly 50%. I wonder how many years it might take me to complete the whole book?

Congratulations!

Congratulations, and God bless you!

Congratulations and God bless you! Looks like a two-a-day habit is working well for you?

That’s an extremely impressive help file you’ve compiled. Well done!!

That’s a good set of verses! If you want to add any more, there’s also Proverbs 28:27 which says ‘whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing’.

I too am glad to hear that. I pray you will know the joy of the Lord in this, and in your whole life.

Congratulations! It takes patience and persistence to reach that 100% !

Yes, thank you Treeswallow.