Hilltop’s 2026 Memory Verse
 
At Hilltop, one of our highest goals is to Abide in God’s Holy Word. To that end, we strive to memorize verses and passages that will help equip Disciples of Christ to be effective in ministering the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We encourage you to come along with us as we strive to know God more.
 

Week 1

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

(2 Timothy 3:16-17)

 

Week 2

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

(Joshua 1:8)

 

Week 3

How can a young person stay on the path of purity?
By living according to your word.

(Psalm 119:9)

 

Week 4

Make them holy by your truth; teach them your word, which is truth.

(John 17:17)

 

Week 5

For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

(2 Peter 1:5-8)

 

Week 6

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

(Galatians 5:22-23)

 

Week 7

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

(John 3:16-17)
 

Week 8

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

(Ephesians 2:8-10)
 

Week 9

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. (Romans 3:23-24)
 

Week 10

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23)