A Few Sources to Help Memorize Scripture

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Link 1: doesn’t support many Bible versions (has ESV, NASB, CSB, NET, KJV, and I believe a Turkish Bible) but has a good interface and is very fun to use, I recommend it from my use.
Link 2: just a written method on how to memorize the Psalter specifically, this method works and I can also recommend it from use
Link 3: I haven’t tried this yet but will today, got it from link 1

Over many years it is possible to memorize thousands of verses, and this does in my experience three primary things:
  1. changes your worldview to match God and His values
  2. gives you things to use in temptation and prevents sin (verses will come to mind if you hear something false or are near to sin preventing it)
  3. teaches you the true meaning of the verses by constant meditation, God will reveal it
Combined with good commentaries this is a good practice to do. May God bless you

From Cornelius Lapaide a great Catholic commentator: The dignity, usefulness, and majesty of Scripture are so great that it surpasses the books of all philosophers and theologians, both Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, as much as Divine surpasses human wisdom. For Scripture is the Word of God. It is the very utterance of God, by means of which God enunciates His wisdom to us, and points out to us the way to virtue, health, and eternal happiness. S. Augustine asserts that “Sacred Scripture is an Encyclopædia of all the sciences. Here is Natural Philosophy, because all the causes of all creatures are in God, the Creator. Here is Moral Philosophy, because a good and honest life is derived from no other source than the love of God and our neighbour as they ought to be loved. Here is Logic, because Truth and the Light of the rational soul are God. Here is Political Science, for a really flourishing State can neither be founded nor preserved except upon the foundation, and by the bond of faith, and firm concord, when the common good of all is loved: that is to say, when God is loved above all things, and when men love one another in Him, and for His sake.” After an interval he adds, “By the Scriptures depraved minds are corrected, little minds are nourished, great minds are delighted. The only minds which are hostile to this doctrine are those which either by going astray know not its healthfulness, or being sick dislike its medicine.”
 
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Are these Catholic or Protestant Scripture websites? Protestant ones might not have the deuterocanonical books in Catholic Bibles.
 
I actually have a suggestion relating to this. For me to remember scripture, it helps if I read SLOW and aloud.
 
The tools appear to be Protestant but the deutero isn’t that big so I ignore their lack of it. I’ll memorize Sirach elsewhere, although since some take suggestions I wonder if they’d add the DRA Bible since it’s free
 
This is the second thread where you’ve posted Protestant Scripture resources.

With all due respect, if you’re Catholic, which I’m assuming you are based on your username, then why are you visiting all these Protestant Bible sites? I could maybe understand if you were a Scripture scholar who did a lot of work comparing the different editions, and we do have some posters on this forum engaged in that, but if a Catholic is going to make an effort to memorize Scripture then they ought to be memorizing a Catholic version of the Bible with a nihil obstat and imprimatur. There are some significant differences between versions beyond just what books are included.
 
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I am Catholic, I use it because Prots tend to emphasize Scripture memorization above us and have made tools and communities to help facilitate it. I looked for Catholic sites similar but I just have to settle. I suspect also Cath Bible companies are less likely to lend out their translations than Prot ones because they are newer often and flashier, due to us being late in the Scripture game (late to embrace for liturgy original language translations for instance
 
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I suspect also Cath Bible companies are less likely to lend out their translations than Prot ones because they are newer often and flashier, due to us being late in the Scripture game (late to embrace for liturgy original language translations for instance
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I don’t even know what to say to this as it seems to me you’re off down rather a wrong track.

I’ll just reiterate that even though you seem to think all these Protestant scripture websites are great, I think they’re detrimental to a Catholic’s faith, especially given that many of the people who frequent this site are young/ new to Catholicism.
 
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