BIBLE STUDY 11 CORINTHIANS

We are excited to announce our Church Wide Bible Study

on Wednesdays at 6:30 pm will now meet here

in person in the Social Hall and by phone/video conference.

Our new book of study is 1 Corinthians.

All bible study conference details, and Zoom information

are posted in today’s bulletin and below.

Zoom Info:

Chapter 1

1. Who joins Paul in writing this epistle? (1)

2. What two groups of people does Paul address in his salutation (1)

3. What qualified Paul as an apostle? (1)

4. How does Paul describe the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? (3)

5. What is the proper use of comfort we receive from God? (4)

6. What two things abound in Christ? (5)

7. Where had Paul experienced some trouble and what kind of suffering did Paul endure? (8-11)

8. What does vs. 9 say about the power of God? (9)

9. What had worked together with God in providing deliverance? What other effect did it have?

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11. Was Paul saying the Corinthians had a low level of understanding? (13)

12. What could Paul and the brethren in Corinth look forward to boasting in, when Christ comes again? (14).

13. What is the Day of the Lord Jesus? (14)

14. What appears to be the reason Paul's integrity was in question? Why was Paul so defensive about his change of plans? (15-17)

15. Paul professes that his word is as faithful as what two things? (18-20)

16. Can we take all God’s promises as our own? (20)

17. Why say “Amen” when we pray? (20)

18. What is a seal of ownership? (22)

19. Why had Paul changed his plans about coming to Corinth? (23)

Chapter 2

1. What was Paul’s emotional state as he penned this letter? (4)

2. What did Paul want them to do with the man who had sinned, yet repented after their disciplinary action toward him? (7-8)

3. Why was Paul so challenging? (9)

4. What was Satan scheming that Paul was so willing to forgive the offender once the Corinthians had forgiven him? (10-11)

5. Who did he not find that troubled him greatly? Where did he then go? (13)

6. What was this triumphal procession that Paul gave God thanks for? (14)

7. In what two ways, and to what two groups of people, does Paul describe himself as “the fragrance of Christ’? (15-17)

8. How do many misuse the word of God and who was Paul speaking of as doing so? (17)

Chapter 3

1. What writing instrument had Paul used to make the Corinthians an"epistle of Christ"? And upon what had he written? (3)

2. How does the letter kill? (6)

3. Who made Paul sufficient as a minister of the new covenant? (5-6a)

4. Of what is the new covenant? And what does it give? (6b)

5. How is the "old covenant" described in verses 7-9?

6. How is the "new covenant" described in verses 7-9?

7. How else are the old and new covenants described in verse 11?

8. Who made the Israelites’ minds dull? (14)

9. Who can be seen when the veil is taken away? (16)

10. In turning to the Lord, who is it one is actually turning to, and what does one find? (17)

11. When will be like Christ? (18)

Chapter 4

1. Why does Paul not "lose heart"? (1)

2. Why was Paul so defensive? (2)

3. To whom is the gospel "veiled"? Who has blinded them? (3-4)

4. Who is the God of this age? (4)

5. How does Paul describe the gospel, and himself in comparison? (7)

6. What four examples does Paul use to describe how God"s power had worked in him? (8-9)

7. How can we carry the death of Jesus in our bodies? (10)

8. Why is life at work in some believers but death at work in others? (12)

9. What does it mean that we are wasting away? (16)

10. How do troubles achieve an eternal glory? (17)

11. Upon what does Paul keep his focus? (18)

Chapter 5

1. Why talk about a tent, building and house? (1-5)

2. What has God given us as a "guarantee" of the "life" to come? (5)

3. What remains our condition while we are "at home in the body"? (6)

4. What does our present condition require of us in our daily "walk"? (7)

5. Where do we go when we die? (8-9)

6. Did some think Paul was out of his mind? (13)

7. What motivated Paul to live for Jesus Christ? (14-15)

8. What was Christ like from a worldly point of view? (16)

9. How is someone in Christ a new person? (17)

10. What is the message of reconciliation, and how has God reconciled us to Himself? (19)

11. How did Jesus become sin? (21)

Chapter 6

1. How can God’s grace be in vain? (1)

2. Why did Paul feel the need to commend himself? (4)

3. List some of the physical sufferings which commended Paul as a minister of God (4-5)

4. List those areas where Paul demonstrated his integrity as a minister of God (6-7)

5. List the contrasting experiences Paul had as a minister of God (9-10)

6. What had damaged the relationship between Paul and the Corinthians? (12)

7. How much can we associate with unbelievers and list the contrasting pair Paul uses to show the incompatibility? (14-17)

Chapter 6

1. How can God’s grace be in vain? (1)

2. Why did Paul feel the need to commend himself? (4)

3. List some of the physical sufferings which commended Paul as a minister of God (4-5)

4. List those areas where Paul demonstrated his integrity as a minister of God (6-7)

5. List the contrasting experiences Paul had as a minister of God (9-10)

6. What had damaged the relationship between Paul and the Corinthians? (12)

7. How much can we associate with unbelievers and list the contrasting pair Paul uses to show the incompatibility? (14-17)

Chapter 7

1. Can we be perfect in this life? (1) ***Also search out the United Methodist response to this.***

2. Why does God want us to be sorrowful? (9)

3. What is the difference between “godly sorrow” and “sorrow of the world”? (10)

4. Name seven things that demonstrated the Corinthians’ godly sorrow (11)