Acceptance

Memory verses

Memorizing Scripture with your children helps God’s Spirit bring about lasting change. Choose a verse that your children can learn in a pre-determined period of time and aim to review the verse at least once every day.

Matthew 7:1-2 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

Matthew 5:44 “But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”

Matthew 22:37-39 “Jesus replied, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

John 13:34-35 “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you love one another.”

John 15:10-11 “If you obey My commands, you will remain in My love, just as I have obeyed My Father’s commands and remain in His love. I have told you this so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.”

John 15:13 “Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”

John 15:17 “This is My command: Love each other.”

Romans 15:7 “Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.”

Romans 14:19 “Let us therefore make every effort to do what leads to peace and to mutual edification.”

1 Corinthians 4:5 “Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive praise from God.”

Galatians 2:6 “…God does not judge by external appearance…”

Galatians 5:14 “The entire law is summed up in a single command: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ”

Ephesians 4:2-3 “Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.”

James 4:12 “There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But you – who are you to judge your neighbor?”

1 John 4:11 “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”

1 John 4:12 “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and His love is made complete in us.”

1 John 4:16 “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.”

1 John 4:19 “We love because He first loved us.”

1 John 4:21 “And He has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.”

1 John 2:5-6 “But if anyone obeys His word, God’s love is truly made complete in him. This is how we know we are in Him: Whoever claims to live in Him must walk as Jesus did.”

1 John 3:18 “Dear children, let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.”