Whether using Kingdom Cards or writing verses down on sheets of paper. Scripture memory verse games can make memorizing scripture easier and can make memorization more communal. Developing the discipline to memorize scripture on your own is powerful, but doing it with others makes it discipleship, and we are called to make disciples of all nations. What better way to do that than learning the Word of God, having a fellowship, and teaching the Word all at the same time? Here are 3 Bible Memory Verse Games to Lock In Scripture.
What You Need to Get Started
Use Kingdom Cards or other cards with the verse on one side of the card and the scripture on the other. Ideally, you will have 50 – 100 cards to keep things interesting, but you can always play with less if you want to. Kingdom cards come with 100 cards in a set, so you are good to go. You want to have 2-6 people with you to play.
Game #1 – Off The Top
- Players – 4 to 10
How to Play
- Break into teams of 2.
- Shuffle Set of Cards.
- Put the entire pile in the middle of the table where everyone can reach.
- Each Team takes a card off the pile’s top and keeps it face down.
- At the same time, everyone flips their card over.
- Each team has 2 minutes to memorize the verse they have.
- After 2 minutes, everyone puts their card face down.
- Each team had to work together to recite the verse that they had.
- If you get your verse right, you get a point.
- Repeat this for five rounds.
- Bonus Round – In the end, each team gets an opportunity to try and recite each verse they had, and they earn a point for each one they can remember.
- Whoever accumulates the most points wins.
Benefits Of This Game
It’s amazing how quickly you can memorize something if you think you have to. The best part of this game is you get to do it with another person, so you can help each other finish the entire text. The game also tests you to see if you can lock a text in and remember it by the end of the game. The confidence boost you get from playing this is that if you can learn something in 2 minutes, it does not take as much work to memorize a verse as you sometimes think.
Game #2 – Name the Book Chapter and Verse
- Players – 1 to 6
How to Play
- Can be played as individuals or in teams of two.
- Shuffle a set of cards.
- Put the entire pile in the middle of the table where everyone can reach with the verses facing up.
- Each Team/Player takes a card off the top of the pile and keeps it with the scripture reference facing down.
- Each team player has 1 minute to name the book, chapter, and verse of the scripture, earning 1 point for each name.
- Repeat this for as many rounds as desired.
- Whoever accumulates the most points wins.
Benefits Of This Game
Knowing verses is important, but finding them is just as important. Everyone has had a verse they know, but they can’t remember where. There is power in knowing a verse and being able to show others exactly where they can find it so they know that it comes from scripture and not your own mouth.
Game #3 – Transformation (works best with Kingdom Cards)
- Players – 1- 10
How to Play
- Break Kingdom Cards into their Categories (Key Verses, Awe of God, Defend the Faith, and Assurance)
- Each player chooses a category.
- Each player is given a card from that category that all other players select for them.
- The person has to hold on to that card for 7 days and live out that verse
- Either in a group text or at meal time together, each person must update the group on how that text is transforming them.
- The winner is any person who is more like Jesus by the end of the week.
Benefits of This Game
The goal of memorizing scripture is always transformation. The goal is never to be someone who knows a lot of scripture but lives out very little. The best way to learn scripture is to use it and be changed because of it. The game of Transformation helps people take scripture learning to the next level.
Bible Memory Verse Games – Make Them Up
Have fun with this, and make up your own game for the people you will play with. I think games can look very different with little kids than games with older families or coworkers. The key is that you have fun, get creative, learn your way around the bible, and that in the end, God is glorified. One of the best things you can remember when making games is how you can point people toward transformation by the Holy Spirit. The goal is to be more like Jesus; the cards are just tools to help move in that direction.