TCP 16: 1 & 2 Corinthians

Question 1

THEME of 1 Corinthians

Answer 1

Correction for the Church

Question 2

NO DIVISIONS, BE UNITED

Answer 2

1 Corinthians 1:10
I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Question 3

THE WORD OF THE CROSS IS FOLLY

Answer 3

1 Corinthians 1:18
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 4

PROCLAIMING CHRIST CRUCIFIED

Answer 4

1 Corinthians 2:2
For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.

Question 5

THE HOLY SPIRIT ILLUMINATES

Answer 5

1 Corinthians 2:13
And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.

Question 6

NATURAL MAN CANNOT UNDERSTAND

Answer 6

1 Corinthians 2:14
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned.

Question 7

DO NOT GO BEYOND WHAT IS WRITTEN

Answer 7

1 Corinthians 4:6
I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers, that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up in favor of one against another.

Question 8

DISCIPLINE FOR IMMORALITY

Answer 8

1 Corinthians 5:1-13
It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife…

Question 9

DON’T SUE THE SAINTS

Answer 9

1 Corinthians 6:1
When one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?

Question 10

THE UNRIGHTEOUS WILL NOT INHERIT THE KINGDOM

Answer 10

1 Corinthians 6:9-10
Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

Question 11

SUCH WERE SOME OF YOU

Answer 11

1 Corinthians 6:11
And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Question 12

I WILL NOT BE DOMINATED BY ANYTHING

Answer 12

1 Corinthians 6:12
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything.

Question 13

FLEE IMMORALITY

Answer 13

1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body.

Question 14

GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY

Answer 14

1 Corinthians 6:19-20
Or 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 15

YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR OWN IN MARRIAGE

Answer 15

1 Corinthians 7:1-5
Now concerning the matters about which you wrote: “It is good for a man not to have sexual relations with a woman.” 2 But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband…

Question 16

DIVORCE ALLOWABLE: ABANDONMENT BY UNBELIEVER

Answer 16

1 Corinthians 7:10-16
To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband 11 (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife…

Question 17

CONTENTMENT IN YOUR CALLING

Answer 17

1 Corinthians 7:17
Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him. This is my rule in all the churches.

Question 18

THE PURPOSE OF SINGLENESS

Answer 18

1 Corinthians 7:35
I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.

Question 19

DISCIPLINE YOUR BODY

Answer 19

1 Corinthians 9:24-27
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…

Question 20

TAKE HEED LEST YOU FALL

Answer 20

1 Corinthians 10:12
Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

Question 21

TEMPTATION IS COMMON TO MAN

Answer 21

1 Corinthians 10:13
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Question 22

HEADSHIP IN MARRIAGE

Answer 22

1 Corinthians 11:3
But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.

Question 23

INSTRUCTION ON COMMUNION

Answer 23

1 Corinthians 11:23-32
For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.”

Question 24

SPIRITUAL GIFTEDNESS FOR EVERY CHRISTIAN

Answer 24

1 Corinthians 12:7
To each is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the common good.

Question 25

MINISTRY WITHOUT LOVE IS NOTHING

Answer 25

1 Corinthians 13:1-3
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 26

TONGUES WILL CEASE

Answer 26

1 Corinthians 13:8-12
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away…

Question 27

THE GOSPEL IS OF FIRST IMPORTANCE

Answer 27

1 Corinthians 15:3-4
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, 4 that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures

Question 28

NO RESURRECTION = NO SALVATION

Answer 28

1 Corinthians 15:17
And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.

Question 29

O DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR STING?

Answer 29

1 Corinthians 15:54-57
When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:
“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.

Question 30

ABOUND IN THE WORK OF THE LORD

Answer 30

1 Corinthians 15:58
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 31

GIVE REGULARLY TO YOUR CHURCH

Answer 31

1 Corinthians 16:1-2
Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. 2 On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.

Question 32

THEME of 2 Corinthians

Answer 32

Defense of Apostleship

Question 33

GOD OF ALL COMFORT

Answer 33

2 Corinthians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort

Question 34

COMFORTED TO COMFORT

Answer 34

2 Corinthians 1:4
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.

Question 35

TRANSFORMED BY BEHOLDING

Answer 35

2 Corinthians 3:18
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from one degree of glory to another. For this comes from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Question 36

DON’T LOSE HEART IN MINISTRY

Answer 36

2 Corinthians 4:1-6
Therefore, having this ministry by the mercy of God, we do not lose heart…

Question 37

DON’T LOSE HEART IN AFFLICTION

Answer 37

2 Corinthians 4:16-18
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 38

BELIEVER’S JUDGMENT

Answer 38

2 Corinthians 5:10
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.

Question 39

IN CHRIST: NEW CREATION

Answer 39

2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Question 40

AMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST

Answer 40

2 Corinthians 5:20
Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.

Question 41

THE GREAT EXCHANGE

Answer 41

2 Corinthians 5:21
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 42

DO NOT BE UNEQUALLY YOKED

Answer 42

2 Corinthians 6:14
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Question 43

GENUINE AND FALSE REPENTANCE

Answer 43

2 Corinthians 7:10-11
For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death. 11 For see what earnestness this godly grief has produced in you, but also what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what punishment! At every point you have proved yourselves innocent in the matter.

Question 44

BY HIS POVERTY WE BECAME RICH

Answer 44

2 Corinthians 8:9
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.

Question 45

GOD LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER

Answer 45

2 Corinthians 9:6-7
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.

Question 46

EVERY THOUGHT CAPTIVE

Answer 46

2 Corinthians 10:5
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ

Question 47

SATAN LEADS AWAY FROM CHRIST

Answer 47

2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.

Question 48

MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT

Answer 48

2 Corinthians 12:9-10
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.

Question 49

ASSURANCE: EXAMINE YOURSELF

Answer 49

2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

Question 50

TRINITARIAN BENEDICTION

Answer 50

2 Corinthians 13:14
he grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.