Ministry Passages: 1 Corinthians

Question 1

DIVISION

Answer 1

1 Corinthians 1:10

DIVISION I exhort you…that you all agree, and there be no divisions among you, but you be made complete in the same mind and in the same judgment.

Question 2

WATER BAPTISM

Answer 2

1 Corinthians 1:14

WATER BAPTISM was practiced: I thank God that I baptized none of you except Crispus and Gaius.

Question 3

THE CROSS

Answer 3

1 Corinthians 1:18

THE CROSS is to those who are perishing foolishness, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God

Question 4

PRIORITY OF THE CROSS

Answer 4

1 Corinthians 2:2

For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

Question 5

NATURAL MAN

Answer 5

1 Corinthians 2:14

NATURAL MAN does not accept the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.

Question 6

CARNAL

Answer 6

1 Corinthians 3:1-3

“Brethren. . . you are still FLESHLY.” They weren’t showing signs of maturation.

Question 7

REWARDS

Answer 7

1 Corinthians 3:11-13

illustrated by a buildings and a fire

Question 8

CHURCH DISCIPLINE

Answer 8

1 Corinthians 5:1-13

Incest in the assembly is arrogantly tolerated but rebuked by Paul. A so-called brother.

Question 9

DON’T ISOLATE FROM THE WORLD

Answer 9

1 Corinthians 5:10

I did not at all mean with the immoral people of this world, or with the covetous and swindlers, or with idolaters; for then you would have to go out of the world.

Question 10

DON’T SUE

Answer 10

1 Corinthians 6:1

Does any one of you, when he has a case against his neighbor, dare to go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

Question 11

LORDSHIP

Answer 11

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers…shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Question 12

SELF CONTROL

Answer 12

1 Corinthians 6:12

All things are lawful for me, but not all things are profitable. … I will not be mastered by anything

Question 13

YOUR BODY AS A TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

Answer 13

1 Corinthians 6:18-19

lives in you…FLEE immorality. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?

Question 14

THE PURPOSE OF SINGLENESS

Answer 14

1 Corinthians 7:35

to secure undistracted devotion to the Lord.

Question 15

CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE

Answer 15

1 Corinthians 7:39

CHRISTIAN MARRIAGE IS… only in the Lord.

Question 16

MARRIAGE ROLES REFLECT THE TRINITY

Answer 16

1 Corinthians 11:3

The role of man and woman is to reflect the Trinity

Question 17

WOMAN’S DRESS

Answer 17

1 Corinthians 11:4-10

A woman is to dress in such a way as to state her devotion and submission to God.

Question 18

COMMUNION

Answer 18

1 Corinthians 11:23-29

Question 19

THE DEFINITION of SPIRITUAL GIFTS

Answer 19

1 Corinthians 12:1-7

Question 20

LOVE

Answer 20

1 Corinthians 13

Question 21

PURPOSE OF TONGUES

Answer 21

1 Corinthians 14:22

So then tongues are for a sign, not to those who believe, but to unbelievers;

Question 22

The GOSPEL

Answer 22

1 Corinthians 15:3-4

that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures

Question 23

RESURRECTION

Answer 23

1 Corinthians 15:14

and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is vain, your faith also is vain.

Question 24

GIVING

Answer 24

1 Corinthians 16:1-2

Now concerning the collection for the saints … On the first day of every week let each one of you put aside and save,

Question 25

GOD SPEAKS

Answer 25

1 Corinthians 2:10-16

Three steps of the Spirit’s transmission of God’s truth: 1. Revelation (10-11) “to us God revealed them” 2. Inspiration (12-13) “now we have received . . . the Spirit . . . that we might know . . .” “We” and “us” refer to Paul not to Christians in general. Only apostles gave inspired truth 3. Illumination (14-16) “we have the mind of Christ.”

Question 26

SALVATION MEANS TRANSFORMATION

Answer 26

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

These are not sins that will cause the loss of salvation. Rather they are typical of the sins of the unregenerate. The Corinthians, however, had experienced transformation. “And such were some of you.”

Question 27

COMMON GRACE

Answer 27

1 Corinthians 7:12-16

is received by an unbelieving spouse. Therefore, do not divorce them. They may become saved.

Question 28

WHAT MATTERS

Answer 28

1 Corinthians 7:19

Circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing, but what matters is the keeping of the commandments of God. [Galatians 5:6, 6:15]

Question 29

PURPOSE OF THE OT

Answer 29

1 Corinthians 10:11

Now these things happened to them as an example, and they were written for our instruction, upon whom the ends of the ages have come.