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Matthew 22 Crossword & Word Search: The Greatest Commandment: Love God and Your Neighbor

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The Greatest Commandment: Love God and Your Neighbor: Matthew 22 word search and memory verse worksheet
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Teaching The Greatest Commandment: Love God and Your Neighbor

Read Matthew 22:34–40. Jesus names loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind as the first and great commandment, and loving your neighbor as yourself as the second. This worksheet reviews that conversation. The wedding-banquet coloring page is a separate scene from earlier in the chapter.

  • What three words does Jesus use when he describes loving God in verse 37?
  • What does loving your neighbor as yourself look like at school or at home?
  • How could our class practice one act of love this week?

Word Search

Words hide across, down, and diagonally — forwards and backwards.

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  • LOVE
  • HEART
  • SOUL
  • MIND
  • FIRST
  • NEIGHBOR
  • SECOND
  • TWO

Crossword

Use the lesson vocabulary and clues to complete the puzzle.

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Across

  1. Love God with all your heart, ___, and mind (22:37).
  2. Jesus tells us to ___ God and our neighbor (Matthew 22:37–39).
  3. Love your ___ as yourself (22:39).

Down

  1. The law and the prophets hang on these ___ commandments (22:40).
  2. Loving your neighbor is the ___ commandment Jesus names (22:39).
  3. Love God with all your heart, soul, and ___ (22:37).
  4. Jesus calls loving God the ___ and great commandment (22:38).
  5. Love God with all your ___ (22:37).

True or False

Read the chapter and circle the right answer.

  1. Jesus was asked which commandment was greatest.
  2. Jesus said to love God with only part of your heart.
  3. Jesus said to love your neighbor as yourself.
  4. Jesus said loving your neighbor means thinking only about yourself.

Memory Verse

Fill in the missing words.

the Lord your God with all your .

Matthew 22:37 · NIrV

About this Matthew 22 activity sheet

This free printable worksheet reviews Matthew 22 through four short activities: a word search using lesson vocabulary, a crossword based on the children’s guide, four true/false statements to talk through, and a memory-verse fill-in from Matthew 22:37. The final page is a complete answer key for the adult in the room.

The sheet is written for roughly ages 6–12. Read the chapter aloud first, or work through the Matthew 22 kids study guide together, then hand out the sheet as a review. You can also read Matthew 22 before you start.

Print as many copies as your Sunday school class, midweek club, homeschool co-op, or family devotional needs. Choose Actual size in your printer settings so the puzzles keep their proportions.

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“Love the Lord your God with all your heart.”
Matthew 22:37 · NIrV

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