Scripture Garden

By Cynthia Rakes Bowden

The following scriptures are missing words that describe things you might see in a garden. Look up the scriptures and write the missing words in the blanks below. Do you “see” a bright, golden flower?

1. “It must needs be that this is a good _______ , or that the word is good, for it beginneth to enlarge my soul” (Alma 32:28).

2. “And the Lord God prepared a _______ , and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief” (Jonah 4:6).

3. “I am the vine, ye are the _______ : He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing” (John 15:5).

4. “But the _______ of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith” (Gal. 5:22).

5. “Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch is yet tender, and putteth forth _______ , ye know that summer is near” (Mark 13:28).

6. “They on the rock are they, which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no _______ , which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away” (Luke 8:13).

7. “Let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distil upon thy soul as the _______ from heaven” (D&C 121:45).

8. “And I, God, called the dry land _______ “ (Moses 2:10).

9. “Then Joseph commanded to fill their sacks with _______ , and to restore every man’s money into his sack, and to give them provision for the way: and thus did he unto them” (Gen. 42:25).

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Answers:

• (1) seed, (2) gourd, (3) branches, (4) fruit, (5) leaves, (6) root, (7) dews, (8) Earth, (9) corn. Hidden word: sunflower.

Illustrated by Julie F. Young