Chapter one
- Was it Paul’s zeal or knowledge or abilities that made him an apostle?
- How many churches at Corinth did Paul write to?
- What are saints?
- What good points did the church at Corinth have?
- What did Paul mean by, “is Christ divided”?
- Paul’s commission was _______________________________________________.
How?________________________________________________________________
- The world by _________________________ cannot know God.
But by _____________________ the world can know God.
- What sign did Jesus give?
- Why is God not found in wisdom or might?
- Name five things Christ is made unto us, and define each.
A._______________________________________________________________________________________
B._______________________________________________________________________________________
C._______________________________________________________________________________________
D._______________________________________________________________________________________
E._______________________________________________________________________________________
Memory Work: I Corinthians 1:18 – For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
Chapter two
- Explain verse 2.
- What did Paul mean by “enticing words of man’s wisdom” and “demonstration of the Spirit and of Power”?
- Why did Paul depend on God when he preached?
- The wisdom of God is for whom?
- Explain verse 9.
- Who knows the things of God?
- Why have we received the Spirit of God?
- Explain “comparing spiritual things with spiritual”.
- What did Jesus say about trying to give a natural man the things of the Spirit of God?
- Who instructs a spiritual man?
- What does it mean to have “the mind of Christ”?
Memory Work: I Corinthians 2:14 – But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
Chapter three
- What evidenced the carnality of some of the people at the Corinth church? (Read Galatians 5:19-21)
- What showed that they were not babes in Christ?
- How are souls brought into the kingdom?
- What is a Christian’s foundation upon which he builds his life?
- Fire shall try the _____________________________ of our works,
not the ____________________ of our works.
- What part do works play in salvation?
(Ephesians 2:8-10, James 2:14-20)
- How are we the temple of God? When do we become such?
- What is the “deceiving” in verse 18?
- Explain: “ And ye are Christ’s” (I Corinthians 6:20)
Memory work: I Corinthians 3:16-17 – Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.
Chapter four
- What did Paul want men to see him as?
- Who judges one’s stewardship?
- Consider: I Corinthians 4:3-“I judge not mine own self”
I Corinthians 11:31-“For if we would judge ourselves we would not be judged”
- What did the church at Corinth have to glory in?
- Why did Paul say the Corinth church was full, rich, wise, strong and honored?
- What did Paul mean when he called himself a fool for Christ’s sake?
- Should not Paul have told the people to follow Jesus instead of himself (v 19)?
- What did Paul mean by “power” in verse 20?
Memory Work: I Corinthians 4:2 – Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.
Chapter 5-6:11
- Define “fornication”
- Leaven symbolizes
- Explain: “Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us”. What is the significance of this phrase here?
- What is meant by our ‘not having company with sinners’ (v 9-10)?
5. The church judges ____________________________________;
God judges_______________________________________________________________.
- Should we carry a brother to court? __________________________________
A hypocrite?______________________________
A non-believer?_______________________________
- What is meant by “the saints shall judge the world”?
- What type man should judge between two brothers?
- We were ______(a)______ but now we are ______(b)______, _____(c)_____
and______(d)______, in the ______(e)______ of the ______(f)______
_______(g)_______ and by the _______(h)________ of ______(i)_______.
Supply and define each missing word.
A._______________________________________________________________________________________
B._______________________________________________________________________________________
C._______________________________________________________________________________________
D._______________________________________________________________________________________
E._______________________________________________________________________________________
F._______________________________________________________________________________________
G._______________________________________________________________________________________
H._______________________________________________________________________________________
I.________________________________________________________________________________________
Memory Work: I Corinthians 5:6b-8 – Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump? Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For when Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us: therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Chapter 6:12-7:16
- Explain verse 12.
- As verse 15, give other scriptures that show our bodies are the “members of Christ”.
- Explain: “ Every sin that a man doeth is without the body”.
- God proves ownership of a Christian by
p _______________________ and p __________________________.
- How can we glorify God in our body?
In our Spirit?
- Should a woman ever keep her body from her husband? ______________
Should a man ever keep his body from his wife? ____________________
If so, when?
- Explain verse 7
- If two believers are married and seemingly can’t live together what are their choices?
- If a believer and an unbeliever are married, what should be the believer’s primary purpose?
- Explain verse 15.
Memory Work: I Corinthians 6:19-20- What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods.
Chapter 7:17-8:13
- Explain verse 20
- How can a Christian man be loosed from a wife?
- Paul said:
The married care for _______________________________________
_____________________________________________________
The unmarried care for____________________________________
___________________________________________________
- M ______________________________________
makes m _________________________________ out of
m ______________________________________.
- What do we know that all men don’t know?
- What liberties could we take that might be a stumbling block to the weak brother?
- Wherefore if _________________________make my brother to offend,
I will __________________________ while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
- Why is a sin against the brother a sin against Christ?
Memory Work: I Corinthians 8:13 – Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
Chapter nine
- What was the evidence of Paul’s apostleship?
- What evidence did Paul give in chapter 9 to prove chapter 8, verse 13?
- “If we have sown unto you _________________________________ things,
it is a great thing if we shall reap your _____________________________________ things.”
- Why did Paul not exercise the liberty of allowing the church to support him?
- Explain verse 14
- Why was it a ‘woe’ unto Paul if he failed to preach the gospel?
- Give examples of how we can, as Paul did, become all things to men, that we might by all means save some.
- Why did Paul practice self-denial?
Memory Work: I Corinthians 9:27 – But I keep under my body, and bring it unto subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.
Chapter ten
- What do verses 1-5 most clearly teach?
- Old Testament Israel set ___________________________________ for us.
These became ______________________________________________ to us.
- How might we tempt Christ?
- What dangers are we being warned of in verse 12?
- “There hath no ________________________ taken you
- but such as is ___________________ to man: but God
is ________________________, who will not suffer you
to be ________________________________ above that
ye are _____________________, but will with the temptation also
make a way to ______________________, that ye may be able
to___________________ it.”
- Explain verse 18 in its relation to us.
- How do people today try to partake from the Lord’s table and the table of devils?
- Explain verse 24
Memory Work: I Corinthians 10:33- Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.
Chapter eleven
- The head of every man is______________________________.
The head of every woman is the __________________________.
The head of Christ is__________________________________.
- Explain verse 4
Explain verse 5
- Why is it not “comely” for a woman to pray unto God ‘uncovered’?
- How does nature teach that it is a shame for a man to have long hair?
- How is long hair a glory to a woman?
- In verses 20-22 they seem to be eating to satisfy __________________
not ___________________ needs.
- At the Lord’s Supper, what does the bread represent?
The cup?
- Why do we partake of the Lord’s Supper?
A._______________________________________________________________________________________
B._______________________________________________________________________________________
C._______________________________________________________________________________________
D._______________________________________________________________________________________
- Who is worthy to partake of the Lord’s Supper?
Memory Work: I Corinthians 11:31 – For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged
Chapter twelve
- Explain verse 3
- Explain:
a. Diversities of gifts
b. Differences of Administration
c. Diversities of operation
- Name the gifts of the Holy Spirit:
A._______________________________________________________________________________________
B._______________________________________________________________________________________
C._______________________________________________________________________________________
D._______________________________________________________________________________________
E._______________________________________________________________________________________
F._______________________________________________________________________________________
G._______________________________________________________________________________________
H._______________________________________________________________________________________
I._______________________________________________________________________________________
- Who determines who gets what gift?
- What relationship do we have with the body of Christ?
- Who determines who serves in what place in the body?
- Explain: “God hath tempered the body together.”
- Name some of the members of the body of Christ.
- What do you think is meant by “best” gifts?
Memory Work: Memorize the nine gifts of the spirit in verses 8-10.
Chapter thirteen
- Without _______________ your influence, position, and gain are nothing.
- Define each term describing charity:
Suffereth long
Kind
Envieth not
Vaunteth not itself
Is not puffed up
Does not behave itself seemly
Seeketh not her own
Is not easily provoked
Thinketh no evil
Rejoiceth not in iniquity
Rejoiceth in the truth
Beareth all things
Believeth all things
Hopeth all things
Endureth all things
- What does “Charity never faileth” mean?
- Paul’s example of himself maturing and putting away childish things is
an analogy to the _________________________
maturing and putting away __________________________________.
Memory Work: Colossians 3:14 – And above all things put on charity, which is the bond of perfectness.
Chapter fourteen
- What does prophecy do for the hearer?
- “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth___________________;
but he that prophesieth edifies the _______________________________. I would
that you all spake with ___________________________________ but rather ye
_____________________________________.”
- What should all that speak in an uncommon tongue pray? Why?
- Tongues are a sign to _______________________________________.
- If any speak in an uncommon tongue and there be no interpreter, what should he do?
- Explain verse 32 and “my spirit prayeth” in verse 14.
- What does verse 37 teach us of today’s church world?
- Discuss verse 40 – “Let all things be done decently and in order.”
Memory Work: I Corinthians 14:18-19 – I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all: yet in church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.
Chapter 15:1-34
- Define “gospel”
What is the gospel?
- Discuss the word “if” in verse 2.
- By whom was Jesus seen by after the resurrection that Paul didn’t name in verses 5-8?
- Can God’s grace be bestowed in vain?
- “____________________________ Adam all
____________________________________, even so _________________________
Christ shall all be made _____________________________________.”
- What is the last enemy that shall be destroyed?
When?
- Discuss verse 29.
- What did Paul mean by “I die daily”?
Memory Work: I Corinthians 15:34 – Awake to righteousness, and sin not: for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.
Chapter 15:35-16:24
- Our natural bodies are _________________________________________,
________________________ and _________________________________.
Our spiritual bodies will be _________________________________________,
__________________________ and ______________________________.
- Who is “the first man”?
Who is “the second man”?
What does this mean?
- Define:
Incorruptible_____________________________________________________________________________
Immortal_________________________________________________________________________________
- Oh death, where is thy sting?_____________________________________
Oh grave, where is thy victory? _______________________________________
- How much did Paul tell each man to give in the collection?
- “Let all things be done with
_____________________________________________________________. ”
- Define “ Anathema Maranatha”
Memory Work: I Corinthians 15:51-53 – Behold, I shew you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in a twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound and the dead shall be raised in corruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immorality.