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I’ve spent the last few years memorizing the Bible, and in the process of doing so, I’ve come up with a multi-tool approach for helping verses stick in my brain. Here are the tools I currently use:

1. I find it hard to keep the verse locations in the Bible anchored in my mind when I am learning individual verses on this website for two reasons. First, some books have multiple verses which are great for memorizing (I’m looking at you Romans and Ephesians), but they all seem to run together when I try to keep them straight in my brain. Second, you see the passage right before you test on a verse, so it is too easy for me to know the passage location without actually knowing it because I have just seen it 10 seconds before. To overcome this, I use the Quizlet Learn and Test features which allows me to test myself on the locations in a multiple-choice format without seeing them ahead of time.
2. For keeping long passages retained over time, I find using the Anki program with the “Bible Memorizer” addon (https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2012700632). This addon will take a long passage and break it down into a grid format, with each square containing the first letter of each word of a verse all in a sequence with punctuation included (see link for example). When I go to review the passage, I just look at the grid and replace the letters with words as I speak the passage out verbally or subvocally.
3. For learning individual verses, I use this website exclusively. I love how it slowly removes words, tricking you into saying the verse multiple times without realizing it. I also like how it moves from word blocks to passage blocks around 20%. Indeed, this website is spectacular for testing your memorization for at least the first 60%-70% of mastering a verse.
I’d love to see what methods other people use to enhance their memorization retention in addition to this website!

Thanks! I've been active silently for a while now on a secondary account.

I guess there is a character limit. Here is the rest.

SPACED REPETITION

As you successfully review a verse, it will increase your learning interval based on how long you have been reviewing the verse and how well you did based upon spaced repetition. You can find out more information about spaced repetition here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition

If you find that the spaced repetition percentages are not working for you, or you want to review a verse more frequently, the best option is to create a Passage set based on that verse and review it as desired. When you go to review a verse in a passage set that is not ready to review based upon spaced repetition, however, it will show you the verse as read only. You can override this feature and make the verse reviewable by taking the following steps:
1. On the verse screen, click on the three bars on the upper right of the verse
2. Check the box Test instead of read (When you check this box, you can review the verse over and over as desired)
3. Note: You can make this easier by clicking on the push pin icon which will add that option to every verse you see.

If you prefer a uniform schedule as opposed to a spaced repetition schedule, the easiest way to do that is through the naming pattern of the passage sets. Here’s how I do it.
1. Verse Passage Sets I need to learn begin with “[R0] Learn:”
2. Verse Passage Sets I want to review daily begin with “[R1] Daily:”
3. Verse Passage Sets I want to review bi-weekly daily begin with “[R2] Bi-weekly (Mon/Thu):”
4. Verse Passage Sets I want to review weekly begin with “[R3] Weekly:”
5. Verse Passage Sets I want to review bi-monthly begin with “[R4] Bi-monthly (01/15):”
6. Verse Passage Sets I want to review monthly begin with “[R5] Monthly:”
7. Verse Passage Sets I want to review forever begin with “[R6] Finished:”

Here’s an example of what my review queue looks like today:
[R0] Learn: Romans 16:17-27
[R1] Daily: Luke 15:1-32
[R5] Bimonthly - (01/16): John 16:01-15
[R6] Monthly - (01): John 01:01-18

Basically, I just go down the list starting with the R0’s and work my way to the R6’s. Doing it this way, while cumbersome, helps to avoid running into a 91% verse with a 3 month interval that you cannot remember.

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