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Printable Bible copywork and memory verses
9 sheets, from a first verse traced on ⅝-inch paper to the whole of Psalm 23 copied out. Every one of them is an ordinary handwriting or memory sheet with a passage on it — the same sheets, the same rulings, the same builder.
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Each of these is a page that is itself the worksheet — open it, press print, and that is the whole of it. Every sheet comes on US Letter and on A4, because a ⅝-inch rule shrunk to fit whatever is in the tray is no longer a ⅝-inch rule.
Verses to trace
A verse on primary ruled paper, traced first and then written alone.
- Bible verse tracing — Genesis 1:1 — The first verse of Genesis on ⅝-inch handwriting paper: printed to read, dotted to trace, and an empty line to write it alone.
- Bible verse handwriting — John 3:16 — John 3:16 on half-inch handwriting paper, each line traced twice and then written on a line of its own.
Copywork
A passage a line at a time, once the letters are no longer the work.
- Bible copywork — Proverbs 3:5-6 — Proverbs 3:5-6 on ⅜-inch transitional paper: the line printed, a gray copy to write over, and an empty line to write it from nothing.
- Psalm 23 copywork — The whole of Psalm 23 on narrow ruled paper, every line printed once to read and left once to copy.
- The Lord’s Prayer copywork — The Lord’s Prayer from Matthew 6 on ⅜-inch paper, each line printed once and left once to copy.
- 1 Corinthians 13 copywork — love is patient — “Love is patient and is kind…” — five verses on college ruled paper, printed to read and left to copy.
Memory work
The same passage with more of it missing each time, and the whole of it on the key.
- Memory verse — John 3:16 — John 3:16 written out four times with more words missing each time — and the whole verse on the answer key.
- Memory work — Psalm 23 — The whole of Psalm 23 printed to read, and then asked for again with every word of it gone — with the psalm entire on the answer key.
- Memory verse — the fruit of the Spirit — Galatians 5:22-23 four times over with more of the list missing each time, and the full verse on the key.
A verse is one passage among several
Scripture is not a mode here and there is no separate section for it. The sheets above are the ordinary copywork and handwriting families with a passage chosen, and the picker they were chosen from holds a few hundred entries — the Psalms, the Gospels and the Proverbs listed first, then the founding documents, the fables, the openings of a dozen novels and the poems. Choosing Psalm 23 and choosing the Gettysburg Address are the same two clicks.
So every one of these sheets is also a setting rather than a fixed page. Any passage can be set at any of the twelve rulings, from inch-high kindergarten paper to college ruled; the model can be dotted, dashed, hollow, gray or left off; and the whole thing can be printed in a joined hand instead. Or paste a verse of your own and get the identical sheet.
Which translation, and why that one
The World English Bible Updated, with the King James beside it. Both are public domain; neither costs anybody a license.
The default is the World English Bible Updated: a modern English translation in the public domain, which renders the divine name as LORD rather than transliterating it, and uses American spelling. The King James Version is the other option in the builder, switchable on any sheet. There is nothing else on offer, and that is deliberate — the ESV, NIV, NASB and CSB are licensed texts, and bundling one into a free worksheet site would be a real problem rather than an oversight.
The text is printed exactly as the translation has it: the punctuation, the capitals and the spelling are the source’s, and nothing is re-wrapped or tidied. That is a condition of using the name, and it is checked against the publisher’s own release every time this site is built rather than promised in a comment. Verse numbers are left off, because they are typography rather than text and a child copying “1” before every clause is copying a printer.
Where a sheet deliberately leaves words out — the memory sheets, which is the whole exercise — the page says so, and the answer key behind it prints the passage whole.
Scripture: World English Bible Updated (public domain) · worldenglish.bible
The rest of the Print Shop
Ten shelves and ten school years, over the same sheets. A shelf is what a sheet is; a year is who it was drawn for, which every sheet states on its own page.
By subject
By grade
Your child’s name is not in the file
The Name: line is printed blank and filled in with a pencil. Nothing is uploaded to make a sheet, no account is needed to print one, and a sheet you share with another family carries the settings you chose and nothing else — see what we don’t collect.