But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

• Joshua 22:5

I am my beloved’s and my beloved is mine;
    he browses among the lilies.

• Song of Songs 6:3

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

• 1 Corinthains 13:13

Last week, I had a fill in the blank quiz.  I chose various words that seemed to be good quiz words, if that is a thing.  And I noticed that six of the ten words that I selected were the last words in the verse.

So here is a quiz that is fill in the blank and every blank is the last word of that verse.  All the verses have something to do with love.  A word list is provided.  The questions are in Biblical order, with the first five from the Old Testament.  The word list is in alphabetical order.

The Questions:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and ____.
2	A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of ____.
3	Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on.____.
4	The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing ____.
5	He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your ____.
6	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 ____.
7	Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the ____.
8	Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in ____.
9	Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of ____.
10	Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows ____.”
Word List
Aversity, Faithfulness, God, God, Kindness, Life, Love, Sins, Truth, You

My wife loved to engage in conversation.  She loved to talk, but she equally loved to listen.

Some people who are not big talkers need to be prodded to say something else, or the conversation dies at that point.

My wife was great at keeping others engaged.

But at least one time in my presence, she got the other person irked.

The woman muttered, “You always have to have the last word!”

My wife replied, “No, I don’t.”

The woman raised her voice, “There you are, doing it again!”

My wife playfully smiled and made the universal symbol for zipping her mouth shut.

The woman then had a bit of a rant.  My wife never said a word.  She did not have to.  She had gotten under the other person’s skin, just a little.

Finally, the woman had said so much, she had to stop to take a breath.

My wife used that opportunity to say, “And I wholeheartedly agree.”

There was silence in the room for a few seconds.  Then, the irate woman screamed in anger, while everyone in the room laughed and applauded.

My wife was gentle and kind, but don’t push her too hard.  And somehow, I think it was one of her sisters, but maybe not.

Bible References:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and ____.	Psalm 86:15
2	A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of ____.	Proverbs 17:17
3	Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on.____.	Isaiah 54:10
4	The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing ____.	Jeremiah 31:3
5	He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your ____.	Micah 6:8
6	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 ____.	John 3:16
7	Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the ____.	1 Corinthians 13:6
8	Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in ____.	Ephesians 4:2
9	Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of ____.	1 Peter 4:8
10	Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows ____.”	1 John 4:7

When I chose the verses for this quiz, I purposefully chose half of the verses in each testament.

In each case, I read enough of the verse to decide that it was a fairly good selection.

That got me to praying that since I had never looked at the last word in each verse, I did not want half the verses ending in the word “love.”  As it turned out, there was only one verse that ends in love.

Then I prayed that I did not get many duplicate words.  There is only one duplicate.  “God” is the last word in two of the verses.

That is good in that we need a reminder that showing love God’s way requires God in our heart.

And it is wonderful how God shows His love toward us in that He sometimes answers our prayers as we are praying them.

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The Answers:

	Question	Bible References	Answers
1	But you, Lord, are a compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and ____.	Psalm 86:15	faithfulness
2	A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for a time of ____.	Proverbs 17:17	adversity
3	Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on.____.	Isaiah 54:10	you
4	The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing ____.	Jeremiah 31:3	kindness
5	He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your ____.	Micah 6:8	God
6	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 ____.	John 3:16	life
7	Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the ____.	1 Corinthians 13:6	truth
8	Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in ____.	Ephesians 4:2	love
9	Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of ____.	1 Peter 4:8	sins
10	Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows ____.”	1 John 4:7	God

Whether you did well on this quiz or, ummm, not so well, for the first video, here is The Love of God from Hymns of Grace.

Here is MercyMe with Then Christ Came.

Here is Randy Travis, singing Love Lifted Me.

When nothing else could help, God’s love lifted me.

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.