Memorize Luke 16:10
“If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities.
Luke 16:10, New Living TranslationFree, no account, nothing to install. The path opens with this verse already in it.
The five steps
- Meet the verse. Hear it read aloud, then echo it phrase by phrase, with a small hand motion for each phrase.
- Fill the gaps. About a third of the words become blanks. Say it out loud, supplying them; peek if you need to, trying is the point.
- Half hidden. Most of the words are gone now. Say it once more at bedtime; sleep locks it in overnight.
- First letters. Every word reduced to its first letter. Recite it with only those to guide you.
- All by yourself. Nothing but the reference. One confident recite, then it goes into your Verse Book to come back for review.
Each step makes a fine "tonight's step" spread over five days, and nothing is locked: the numbered dots jump anywhere. How to memorize Bible verses walks through the whole method.
Why it works
Three of the most replicated findings in learning science: retrieval practice (pulling a word from memory strengthens it more than rereading it), spacing (short tries on separate days beat one long one), and sleep (a verse said at bedtime is consolidated overnight). The blanks grow in stages so that every try is hard enough to count and never so hard that you give up.
Luke 16:10 in context
Jesus tells of a manager acting shrewdly and teaches faithful use of wealth, exposing divided loyalty and self-justification. The rich man and Lazarus story warns of lasting consequences for neglecting suffering neighbors.
Read Luke 16:10 in its chapter · Luke 16, in the New Living Translation.
Verses that keep it company
- Proverbs 11:25Bible verses about money
- Proverbs 19:17Bible verses about money
- Proverbs 22:7Bible verses about money
- Proverbs 30:8-9Bible verses about money
- Ecclesiastes 5:10Bible verses about money
- Matthew 6:21Bible verses about money
Luke 16:10 is on Bible verses about money.
In other translations
BSB · Berean Standard BibleKJV · King James VersionNET · New English TranslationWEB · World English BibleESV · English Standard VersionASV · American Standard (1901)YLT · Young's Literal Translation
The reference is the same in every one; the path lets you switch mid-way, and pasting any wording you like works too.