1 & 2 Corinthians

Question 1

1 Cor 1:17

Answer 1

For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.

Question 2

1 Cor 1:18

Answer 2

For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Question 3

1 Cor 1:27

Answer 3

But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong

Question 4

1 Cor 2:1-5

Answer 4

I did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.

Question 5

1 Cor 3:6-7

Answer 5

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth.

Question 6

1 Cor 6:19-20

Answer 6

Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.

Question 7

1 Cor 8:1b-3

Answer 7

This “knowledge” puffs up, but love builds up. 2 If anyone imagines that he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3 But if anyone loves God, he is known by God

Question 8

1 Cor 9:19-23

Answer 8

For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win more of them. 20 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 (though not being myself under the law) that I might win those under the law. 21 To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law. 22 To the weak I became weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that by all means I might save some. 23 I do it all for the sake of the gospel, that I may share with them in its blessings.

Question 9

1 Cor 9:24-27

Answer 9

Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. 25 Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. 26 So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. 27 But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Question 10

1 Cor 10:31

Answer 10

So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God

Question 11

1 Cor 12

Answer 11

Spiritual Gifts & The Body

Question 12

1 Cor 13:1-3

Answer 12

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Question 13

1 Cor 13:4;13

Answer 13

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[b] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Question 14

1 Cor 14:33

Answer 14

For God is not a God of confusion but of peace.

[context = orderly worship]

Question 15

1 Cor 15:55-58

Answer 15

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
55 “O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”

56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

Question 16

2 Cor 1:3-5

Answer 16

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too;

Question 17

2 Cor 1:8-9

Answer 17

For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the affliction we experienced in Asia. For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.

Question 18

2 Cor 3:17

Answer 18

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Question 19

2 Cor 4:7-10

Answer 19

But we have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. 8 We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; 9 persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies.

Question 20

2 Cor 4:16-18

Answer 20

So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. 17 For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, 18 as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

Question 21

2 Cor 5:17

Answer 21

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Question 22

2 Cor 5:21

Answer 22

For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Question 23

2 Cor 7:10

Answer 23

For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

Question 24

2 Cor 9:6-8

Answer 24

The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. 7 Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. 8 And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Question 25

2 Cor 10:5

Answer 25

We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ

Question 26

2 Cor 12:9-10

Answer 26

But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 10 For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.