1 Corinthians

Question 1

Content of first half of 1 Corinthians

Answer 1

1- Against divisions and overestimating wisdom

2- God’s countercultural wisdom to be discerned by the spiritual

3- Divisions and boasting of leaders; Paul and Apollos work cooperatively

4- Apostles as servants and how they are viewed as last of all

5- Sexual immorality in Corinthian congregation

6- Against taking brothers/sisters to court; visiting prostitutes

7- Defining appropriate sexual relationships within marriage

8- Food sacrificed to idols

Question 2

Content of 2nd half of 1 Corinthians

Answer 2

9- Apostolic rights

10- Warnings from Israel’s history; do everything to the glory of God

11- Head veilings and abuses at the Lord’s Supper; institution of the Lord’s supper; partaking unworthily

12- Spiritual gifts; one body, many members

13- The nature of love (if I have not love…)

14- Spiritual gifts - especially prophecy and speaking in tongues; orderly worship

15- The resurrection of Christ; the day of the Lord (resurrection of the dead, resurrection of the body)

16- Collection for the saints; Paul’s travel plans

Question 3

1 Corinthians - Key Concepts

Answer 3

• Divisions (factions among believers in Corinth)
• Idolatry
• Sexual immorality (major topic, covers a number of sexual behaviors)
• Relinquishing of privilege in order to serve others
• Eucharist (proper way to perform)
• Spiritual gifts (empowered by Holy Spirit for work of body of Christ: wisdom, knowledge, faith, gifts of healing, miracle working, prophecy, and tongues)

Question 4

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 1:10

“Now I appeal to you, brothers and sisters, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you be in agreement and …

Answer 4

…that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose.

Question 5

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 1:13

“Has Christ been divided? Was Paul crucified for you?…

Answer 5

…Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?

Question 6

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 1:18

“For the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but…

Answer 6

…to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Question 7

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 4:10

“We are fools for the sake of Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but…

Answer 7

…you are strong. You are held in high honor, but we in disrepute.

Question 8

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 9:19-21

“For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (thought I myself am not under the law) so that…

Answer 8

…I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside of the law (thought I am not free from God’s law but am under Christ’s law) so that I might win those outside the law.

Question 9

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 11:3

“But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the husband is…

Answer 9

…the head of his wife, and God is the head of Christ.

Question 10

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 11:23-26

“For I received from the Lord what I also handed on to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took a loaf of bread, and when he had given thanks, broke it and said ‘This is my body that is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.’ In the same way he took the cup also, after supper, saying,…

Answer 10

…’This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.’ For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.

Question 11

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 12:4-6

“Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are varieties of services, but the same Lord; and…

Answer 11

…there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who activates all of them in everyone.

Question 12

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 12:12-13

“For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For…

Answer 12

…in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free - and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

Question 13

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 13:13

“And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and…

Answer 13

…the greatest of these is love.

Question 14

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 15:3-8

“For I handed on to you as of first importance what I in turn had received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, and that he was buried, and that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the scriptures, and that he appeared to Cephas, then to the twelve. Then he…

Answer 14

…appeared to more than five hundred brothers and sisters at one time, most of whom are still alive, although some have died. Then he appeared to James, then to all the apostles. Last of all, as to one untimely born, he appeared also to me.

Question 15

Finish the following quotation from 1 Corinthians 15:13-14

“If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; and if Christ has not been raised, then…

Answer 15

…our proclamation has been in vain and your faith has been in vain.