Keep this Book of the Law alWAYs on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

• Joshua 1:8

The Lord is my shepHERd, I lack noTHINg.

• Psalm 23:1

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that wHOEver believes in him shall not perish but have eTERNal life.

• John 3:16

For the wAGEs of sin is dEATh, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

• Romans 6:23

Here I am! I sTANd at the door and knock. If anyone hEARs my voice and oPENs the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.

• Revelation 3:20

I picked up a variety word game magazine recently.  I am not much of a crossword puzzle guy, but I did well back when I worked the daily USA Today crossword.  I never was much for the Sunday New York Times crosswords.  Somewhere in between.

But other puzzles intrigue me.  I love the Logic puzzles.  But the other day, I stumbled over a couple of puzzles that gave a list of words, followed by words with something missing from the center of the word.  I thought this would make a great Bible verse puzzle.

I have been a little distracted lately, so I will try to make this simple.

In Part 1, you will find ten words in alphabetical order with something missing in the middle.

In Part 2, you will find ten words in alphabetical order.  These words are what is missing in the middle of the words in Part 1.  This makes this a fairly straightforward matching quiz.  Match the list in Part 1 with the list in Part 2.

In Part 3, you will find five Bible verses that should be rather familiar.  They are listed in biblical order.  These Bible verses will have two blanks.  These blanks are filled with two of the words that you created by melding the words in Part 1 and Part 2 together.  This is the sanity check to make sure you created the right words.

In the Bible Reference section, the book, chapter, and verse are given for the five Bible verses.

I am not using the table feature this week.

Part 1

AC__ING, A___HER, C___ED, C___E, E___H, H___NS, RE___ING, S___K, S___L, TRANS___ED

Part 2

ALL, ART, CORD, EAVE, FORM, HANG, NEW, NOT, PEA, TEA

Part 3

In the beginning God created the ___ and the ___.

“‘Do not ___. Do not lie. Do not deceive one ___.

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should ___ his mind. Does he ___ and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been ___ ___ to his purpose.

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be ___ by the ___ of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Note: The fourth verse has two consecutive missing words.

I enjoy word games, most of the time.  There are a few of them that I just cannot wrap my head around them.  My wife exclusively did word searches.  I hope this word game was enjoyable, and not that hard.  But I will admit, when I typed everything in, it looked scary.  The words in Part 2 may make more than one word when melded with the words in Part 1, but that is where the Bible verses come in.

Bible References:

Genesis 1:1

Leviticus 19:11

Numbers 23:19

Romans 8:28

Romans 12:2

I hope to do some more word games in the future.

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The Answers:

In the beginning God created the hEAVEns and the eARTh.

• Genesis 1:1

“‘Do not sTEAl. Do not lie. Do not deceive one aNOTher.

• Leviticus 19:11

God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should cHANGe his mind. Does he sPEAk and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

• Numbers 23:19

And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been cALLed acCORDing to his purpose.

• Romans 8:28

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transFORMed by the reNEWing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

• Romans 12:2

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video, here is Stuart Townend singing STANd up, STANd up for Jesus.

Here is Fountainview Academy singing FAIRest Lord Jesus.

Here is Hymns of Grace (Andie Johnson, Hannah Park, Deb Victa and Philip Webb) singing Blessed AssuRANce.

Here is CeCe Winans with the Martins singing There’s SoMEThing about that Name.

I guess you could say that Jesus is the Word with us that makes our life complete.

If you like these Saturday morning Bible quizzes, but you think you missed a few, you can use this LINK. I have set up a page off the home page for links to these Saturday morning posts. I will continue to modify the page as I add more.

Soli Deo Gloria.  Only to God be the Glory.