How many verses should I keep?
One from this sitting. A list you cannot say is not memory. Tomorrow can have its own verse.
Practice
Keep one verse you can say again
After a sitting, pick one verse you can say without the page. Say it once, check it, and say it again later the same day. That is the whole practice. The verse is not a slogan you trimmed. Write the reference beside it so you can put it back in the paragraph. Scripture Journey does not score memory, and a missed day does not reset the verse.
How to choose it
Choose a sentence you could not paraphrase on the first reading, or the sentence the passage turns on. Do not choose the shortest line only because it is short.
If the sentence is a command, keep the “therefore” that attaches it to the previous lines, at least in your note. The letter guide is why that matters.
How to check it
Say it, then look. Correct the words you swapped. A nearly right verse is a different sentence.
One check is enough for the sitting. You are not building a streak of perfect recalls. The no-streak guide still applies.
What you tell someone else
If you repeat it to another person, say the reference. Offer to read the paragraph. The reading-together guide is the longer form of that conversation.
Do not present the verse as the sermon title or as the study’s headline unless those words match. The transcript guide keeps those names apart.
Questions
What if I forget it tonight?
Open the reference and read it again. Forgetting is not a failed week. The bookmark is the reference you wrote down.