New Testament puzzle

You won't find the following "Advice to young Christians" in any one place in the Bible. It's made up of brief sentences and phrases from twenty of the twenty-seven books that make up the New Testament.

To find out which book each sentence belongs to, look up key words, such as "armour" or "affection," in a Bible concordance. Then circle the letters in the block that spell the name of the book. The names run diagonally, vertically and horizontally, forward and backward, as well as upside down and right side up.

Count I and II Corinthians as one book and do the same in other cases where two or three books have the same name. Once, where both a Gospel and a group of epistles have the same name, one sentence from the gospel and one from the epistles were used, and both were put under the same number. When you have found twenty books, look at the leftover letters. They spell the twenty-first book. Have fun.

S N A I H T N I R O C N O Y H T O M I T P O A I E S E M A J I E L I T D P T H S E T T O P A U S H W K S U E S P L J A E E N R S R S I E L R K H S O A O I L V B U O T N I I M A I E L J C T A N A A N H R G A L A T I A N S P H I L E M O N S S S

"Advice to young Christians"

1. Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.

2. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus.

3. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

4. Put on the whole armour of God.

5. Be sober, be vigilant.

6. What I [Jesus] say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

7. Fight the good fight of faith.

8. Be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord.

9. Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.

10. Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

11. Keep yourselves in the love of God.

12. For in him [God] we live, and move, and have our being.

13. Let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

This is my [Jesus'] commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you.

14. To do good and to communicate forget not.

15. Speak thou the things which become sound doctrine.

16. Hold that fast which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

17. Be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only.

18. The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

19. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.

Answers: 1 Romans 12:2. 2 Philippians 2:5. 3 Colossians 3:2. 4 Ephesians 6:11. 5 I Peler 5:8. 6 Mark 13:37. 7 I Timothy 6:12. 8 I Corinthians 15:58. 9 Luke 12:48. 10 Galatians 5:16. 11 Jude 1:21. 12 Acts 17:28. 13 John (one sentence from the letters [1 John 3:18] and one from the Gospel [John 15:12]). 14 Hebrews 13:16. 15 Titus 2:1. 16 Revelation 3:11. 17 James 1:22. 18 Matthew 9:37. 19 Philemon 1:25. The book spelled by the leftover letters is Thessalonians.

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