Scripture Game
Idea by Debra Woods Hamilton / ga03172007
 

For corresponding printable charts for this activity, please see Debra's website
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When I was in college studying theater, in one class, we had to take a few lines from Shakespeare and look up every single word in the Oxford English Dictionary. It was quite an exercise and revealed the many meanings, deeper meanings of the text.

It could be a great way to prepare to have the girls look up the words in D&C 121:45 and the 13th Article of Faith in the dictionary. You could assign each girl to look up a word, and then report on the best meaning as it appears in the verse. I just went through them and looked up the keywords at www.dictionary.com or in the Bible Dictionary - here is what I came up with. You could take the words and the definitions and have the girls match them up, then re-read the verses with these definitions so they get the deeper meaning. 

13th Article of Faith

HONEST - honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair
TRUE - sincere; not deceitful
CHASTE - undefiled or stainless
BENEVOLENT - desiring to help others; charitable
VIRTUOUS - conforming to moral and ethical principles; morally excellent; upright
DOING GOOD - Do that which is kind, beneficent, or friendly
BELIEVE - Confidence
HOPE - to look forward to with desire and reasonable confidence
ENDURE - sustain without impairment or yielding
LOVELY - having a beauty that appeals to the heart or mind as well as to the eye
GOOD REPORT - An account or description of something positive and beneficial
PRAISEWORTHY - highly commendable

D&C 121:45

bowels - feelings of pity or compassion
charity - To love as Christ loved
household of faith - Members of your church
virtue - moral excellence; goodness; righteousness
garnish - To enhance in appearance by adding decorative touches; embellish
unceasingly - continuous
confidence - belief in oneself and one's powers or abilities
wax - to increase in extent, quantity, intensity, power, etc.
In the presence of God - Being in the immediate vicinity of God; proximity to God
doctrine - a body or system of teachings relating to a particular subject
priesthood - The power to act in the name of Christ
distil - To separate or extract the essential elements of
dews from heaven - Something moist, fresh, pure, or renewing given from God