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To: Grateful2God
If I can cite where a verse is, it's usually because I recall the story or context it is in. That's a big help!

That's pretty good. Chapters and verses 'sometimes' get in the way of the context. For example in 2 Timothy the latter portion of chapter 3 and beginning of chapter 4 is actually the same subject discussed. Chapter and verse helps a bunch when you are studying with others AND when one is teaching or preaching. It is a great way for others to keep up.

I have found that after quite a few years of reading the entire NT and Psalms at least 2X a year and the remainder of the OT at least 1X a year, trying to find a passage is no longer difficult. As with sports, practice of exercises with repetition leads to 'muscle memory.'

With the regular 2X NT and Psalms; 1X OT I also have specific studies, devotions (older sermons) and as I teach my sons more 'muscle memory' is added.

115 posted on 12/19/2014 1:22:04 PM PST by redleghunter (... we have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God-Heb 4:14)
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To: redleghunter

Thank you! I was never too good at memorizing, least of all numbers (the numerals, not the Book! Lol). It’s such a wonderful thing to read Scripture to/with your children! One’s faith, whatever it may be is like a treasure passed on from generation to generation!
God bless you!


118 posted on 12/19/2014 1:33:31 PM PST by Grateful2God (preastat fides supplementum sensuum defectui)
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