Love: The Only Option

There are so many verses about love in the Bible, See if you can fill in the missing words in each verse by combining the syllables from the word bank. The number of syllables is in ( ) next to each blank.


WORD BANK
God

proud

Lord

fear
words

Christ

heart

pa
tient

bor

one

neigh
truth

love

kind

ples
ci

hope

dis


1. Jesus replied: "Love the _______________(1) your God with all your _______________(1) and with all your soul and with all your mind." (Matthew 22:37)

2. The second is this: "Love your _______________(2) as yourself." There is no commandment greater than these. (Mark 12:31)

3. There is no _______________(1) in love. But perfect _______________(1) drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment (1 John 4:18)

4. By this all men will know that you are my _______________(3), if you love _______________(1) another. (John 13:35)

5. Love is _______________(2), love is _______________(1). It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not _______________(1). (1 Corinthians 13:4)

6. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the _______________(1) (1 Corinthians 13:6)

7. And now these three remain: faith, _______________(1) and love. But the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13:13)

8. Dear children, let us not love with _______________(1) or tongue but with actions and in truh(1 John 3:18)

9. _______________(1) is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. (1 John 4:16b)

10. Who shall seperate us from the love of _______________(1)? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? (Romans 8:35)

By Barb Marshall
Shining Star, Copyright © 2000 Issue 62