12 Encouraging Verses to Memorize in 2025

We’re all familiar with New Year’s resolutions, and perhaps you’re also familiar with the newer trend, the “word for the year,” where you identify a key growth word that helps focus your attention on big-picture challenges. Stores are stocked with calendars and other planning tools to help us kick off the new year right, while fitness gear is front and center.

It’s natural to do this—the start of a fresh new year often prompts us to look within and explore measures to stay disciplined or achieve important personal goals.

But instead of personal goals and resolutions, what if we took a different approach to the new year? Instead of focusing on self-oriented strivings, what if we turned our attention to the tool God provided for us long ago—his holy word, the Bible—and trusted that to lead us in the right direction? What if instead of remembering our resolutions, we remember the words of 12 Bible verses, one for every month, that we memorize for 2025?

The Bible is chock-full of important, practical, useful, and immensely helpful material. Not only is it God’s love letter to us, his children, but it also contains sensible, realistic, and sound advice from our heavenly parent on how to live right in a fallen world.

While reading the Bible is a great way to know the Lord and familiarize ourselves with his directives (and directions), there’s also something to be said about memorizing Bible verses.

Maybe memorizing Bible verses is something you’re already accustomed to, and you understand the value of committing God’s word to your heart. Perhaps a Sunday school teacher or a parent required you to memorize scripture, and the habit took hold and never let go.

Or maybe you’re like me, never previously required or personally compelled to memorize Bible verses, and perhaps you don’t fully understand the value of such an exercise ... yet.

But there are wonderful reasons why we should strive to memorize scripture, and not just because we “have to.”   

Sometimes, we don’t have a Bible on hand, and we need a verse for our own comfort or for sharing with another person. Other times, scripture memorization helps us resist temptation or stand strong in times of difficulty. As the psalmist writes in Psalm 119:11, 

“I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.” (ESV)

And still other times, scripture memorization helps us draw closer to the Lord as we meditate on his words and his love to us through the carefully crafted words of his heart.

Here, then, are 12 encouraging verses to memorize in 2025.

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