Seed of the Word
1 Corinthians — Group study guide
Part 1 of 2 · chapters 1–8
8 chapters · 100 questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Seed of the Word
1 Corinthians 1 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Corinthians 1 (KJV)
1. Through whose will was Paul called to be an apostle?
1 Corinthians 1:1
- A. Of Peter
- B. Of God
- C. Of the elders in Jerusalem
- D. Of Barnabas
2. Why did Paul always thank God whenever he remembered the brethren?
1 Corinthians 1:4
- A. For the riches of Corinth
- B. For the offering they sent him
- C. For the grace of God which is given them by Jesus Christ
- D. For the wisdom of their philosophers
3. In what things were they enriched by Jesus?
1 Corinthians 1:5
- A. In gold and silver
- B. In lands and cattle
- C. In fame and honour
- D. In all utterance, and in all knowledge
4. What gift was the church in Corinth lacking?
1 Corinthians 1:7
- A. None
- B. The gift of tongues
- C. The gift of prophecy
- D. The gift of healing
5. Why will God confirm the church unto the end?
1 Corinthians 1:8
- A. That they may be rich in this world
- B. That they may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ
- C. That they may rule the city
- D. That they may not suffer persecution
6. Who told Paul there were contentions in the church?
1 Corinthians 1:11
- A. They of the house of Stephanas
- B. They of Apollos
- C. They of the house of Chloe
- D. They of Crispus
7. Why did Paul not baptize many people?
1 Corinthians 1:15
- A. Because he had no authority to baptize
- B. Because there was no water in Corinth
- C. Because he was sick
- D. Lest any should say he had baptized in his own name
8. What is the preaching of the cross to them that perish?
1 Corinthians 1:18
- A. Foolishness
- B. The power of God
- C. Wisdom
- D. Good tidings
9. What did God do with the wisdom of this world?
1 Corinthians 1:20
- A. He praised it
- B. He made it foolish
- C. He wrote it in the law
- D. He gave it to the Jews
10. What do the Jews require?
1 Corinthians 1:22
- A. Wisdom
- B. Riches
- C. A sign
- D. Sacrifices
11. What is the preaching of Christ crucified unto the Jews?
1 Corinthians 1:23
- A. Foolishness
- B. Wisdom
- C. Good tidings
- D. A stumblingblock
12. The foolishness of God is wiser than what?
1 Corinthians 1:25
- A. Than men
- B. Than the angels
- C. Than the law
- D. Than the prophets
13. What did God choose to confound the wise?
1 Corinthians 1:27
- A. The mighty things of the world
- B. The foolish things of the world
- C. The noble things of the world
- D. The rich things of the world
14. What is Christ Jesus made unto us of God?
1 Corinthians 1:30
- A. Law, sacrifice, temple and altar
- B. King, prophet, judge and lawgiver
- C. Wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption
- D. Riches, fame, power and honour
Notes
Seed of the Word
1 Corinthians 2 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Corinthians 2 (KJV)
1. How did Paul not declare the testimony of God?
1 Corinthians 2:1
- A. In fear and trembling
- B. In demonstration of the Spirit
- C. In simplicity
- D. With excellency of speech or of wisdom
2. What did Paul determine to know among the Corinthians?
1 Corinthians 2:2
- A. Jesus Christ, and him crucified
- B. The philosophy of the Greeks
- C. The law of Moses
- D. The traditions of the elders
3. In what kind of demonstration was Paul's preaching?
1 Corinthians 2:4
- A. In demonstration of eloquence
- B. In demonstration of the Spirit and of power
- C. In demonstration of riches
- D. In demonstration of philosophy
4. In what did Paul not want the Corinthians' faith to stand?
1 Corinthians 2:5
- A. In the power of God
- B. In the Holy Spirit
- C. In the wisdom of men
- D. In Jesus Christ
5. Among whom did Paul speak wisdom?
1 Corinthians 2:6
- A. Among the princes of this world
- B. Among the philosophers of Athens
- C. Among babes in Christ
- D. Among them that are perfect (mature)
6. Had the princes of this world known the wisdom of God, what would they not have done?
1 Corinthians 2:8
- A. They would not have crucified the Lord of glory
- B. They would not have destroyed the temple
- C. They would not have persecuted Paul
- D. They would not have worshipped idols
7. For whom are the things which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard?
1 Corinthians 2:9
- A. For the wise of the world
- B. For them that love God
- C. For the princes of this world
- D. For the angels only
8. How does God reveal the things not seen nor heard?
1 Corinthians 2:10
- A. By dreams
- B. By philosophers
- C. By his Spirit
- D. By the stars
9. Why have we received the spirit which is of God?
1 Corinthians 2:12
- A. To work miracles in the streets
- B. To judge unbelievers
- C. To gain riches
- D. That we might know the things freely given to us of God
10. How does the natural man receive the things of the Spirit?
1 Corinthians 2:14
- A. As foolishness, and he cannot know them
- B. As deep wisdom
- C. As commandments of the law
- D. As good tidings
11. What does he that is spiritual judge?
1 Corinthians 2:15
- A. Only prophecies
- B. All things
- C. Nothing
- D. Only the Gentiles
12. Whose mind do we have?
1 Corinthians 2:16
- A. The mind of the wise
- B. The mind of Paul
- C. The mind of Christ
- D. The mind of the prophets
Notes
Seed of the Word
1 Corinthians 3 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Corinthians 3 (KJV)
1. Are babes in Christ carnal or spiritual?
1 Corinthians 3:1
- A. Spiritual
- B. Carnal
2. Why did Paul feed the believers in Corinth with milk and not with meat?
1 Corinthians 3:2
- A. Because it was a time of fasting
- B. Because there was no meat in Corinth
- C. Because the law commanded it
- D. Because they were not yet able to bear it
3. What marks carnal Christians?
1 Corinthians 3:3
- A. Envying, strife and divisions
- B. Love, joy and peace
- C. Humility and meekness
- D. Wisdom and knowledge
4. Is saying “I am of Paul” or “I am of Apollos” spiritual or carnal?
1 Corinthians 3:4
- A. Spiritual
- B. Carnal
5. For what were Paul and Apollos ministers?
1 Corinthians 3:5
- A. To collect offerings
- B. To govern the church
- C. To bring people to believe in the Lord
- D. To judge the brethren
6. Who gives the increase to what men plant and water?
1 Corinthians 3:6
- A. Paul
- B. Apollos
- C. The elders
- D. God
7. What did Paul do as a wise masterbuilder?
1 Corinthians 3:10
- A. He laid the foundation
- B. He built the temple in Jerusalem
- C. He raised the pillars
- D. He built a synagogue
8. What is the foundation Paul speaks of?
1 Corinthians 3:11
- A. Peter
- B. Jesus Christ
- C. The law of Moses
- D. Apollos
9. What will be done with the work of every man who builds thereon?
1 Corinthians 3:13
- A. Water will wash it
- B. The wind will carry it away
- C. The fire shall try it
- D. The angels will count it
10. What does he receive whose work abides?
1 Corinthians 3:14
- A. Punishment
- B. Loss
- C. Shame
- D. A reward
11. How shall he be saved who suffers loss?
1 Corinthians 3:15
- A. Yet so as by fire
- B. By his many works
- C. By his lineage
- D. Without any trial
12. We are the temple of God. Who dwells in us?
1 Corinthians 3:16
- A. An angel
- B. The Spirit of God
- C. The spirit of Paul
- D. The law
13. What will God do to him that defiles the temple of God?
1 Corinthians 3:17
- A. He will forgive him
- B. He will make him a priest
- C. Him shall God destroy
- D. He will send him to Jerusalem
Notes
Seed of the Word
1 Corinthians 4 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Corinthians 4 (KJV)
1. How should men account of us apostles?
1 Corinthians 4:1
- A. As kings of the earth
- B. As judges of the people
- C. As priests of the temple
- D. As ministers of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God
2. What is required in stewards?
1 Corinthians 4:2
- A. That a man be found faithful
- B. That he be rich
- C. That he be eloquent
- D. That he be of noble family
3. Of what did Paul know anything by himself (have a bad conscience)?
1 Corinthians 4:4
- A. Of having persecuted the church
- B. Of nothing
- C. Of not having baptized many
- D. Of having left Barnabas
4. To what were the apostles appointed?
1 Corinthians 4:9
- A. To exile
- B. To forced labour
- C. To death
- D. To life imprisonment
5. Why were the apostles fools?
1 Corinthians 4:10
- A. For their little education
- B. For their poverty
- C. For their age
- D. For Christ's sake
6. What did the apostles do when they were reviled?
1 Corinthians 4:12
- A. They blessed
- B. They reviled in return
- C. They fled
- D. They complained
7. How is a spiritual father obtained?
1 Corinthians 4:15
- A. By family inheritance
- B. By being begotten through the gospel
- C. By election of the church
- D. By circumcision
8. What did Paul beseech the Corinthians?
1 Corinthians 4:16
- A. To send him money
- B. To visit him in prison
- C. To be followers of him
- D. To follow Apollos
9. In what is the kingdom of God not?
1 Corinthians 4:20
- A. In power
- B. In righteousness
- C. In the Spirit
- D. In word
10. In what two ways could Paul come to the Corinthians?
1 Corinthians 4:21
- A. With a rod, or in love and the spirit of meekness
- B. With letters or with messengers
- C. With soldiers or with judges
- D. With riches or with poverty
Notes
Seed of the Word
1 Corinthians 5 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Corinthians 5 (KJV)
1. What kind of fornication was among the Corinthians?
1 Corinthians 5:1
- A. One common in every city
- B. Such as is not so much as named among the Gentiles
- C. One allowed by the law
- D. One practised only by the priests
2. What did Paul say should have been done with the one who committed such fornication?
1 Corinthians 5:2
- A. Ordain him an elder
- B. Give him an offering
- C. Take him away from among them
- D. Send him to Jerusalem
3. What did Paul do in spirit, though absent in body?
1 Corinthians 5:3
- A. He prayed for his healing
- B. He wrote him a private letter
- C. He forgave him
- D. He judged the one who committed fornication
4. What did Paul ask to be done in the power of our Lord Jesus Christ?
1 Corinthians 5:5
- A. That the one who did this deed be delivered unto Satan
- B. That they take him before the Roman judges
- C. That they give him a place of honour
- D. That they baptize him again
5. What does a little leaven do?
1 Corinthians 5:6
- A. Sweetens the lump
- B. Leaveneth the whole lump
- C. Hardens the bread
- D. Nothing
6. Who is our passover?
1 Corinthians 5:7
- A. Moses
- B. The lamb of Egypt
- C. Christ
- D. Aaron
7. What is the old leaven?
1 Corinthians 5:8
- A. Flour and water
- B. Law and sacrifices
- C. Fasts
- D. Malice and wickedness
8. With what kind of fornicator must we not keep company?
1 Corinthians 5:11
- A. With any man that is called a brother and is a fornicator
- B. With the fornicators of this world
- C. With Gentiles who do not know God
- D. With those who have already repented
9. Should we eat with any man that is called a brother and is an idolater?
1 Corinthians 5:11
- Yes
- No
10. Who will judge them that are without (outside the church)?
1 Corinthians 5:13
- A. The church
- B. God
- C. Paul
- D. The elders
11. Can a church put away a wicked person from among them?
1 Corinthians 5:13
- Yes
- No
Notes
Seed of the Word
1 Corinthians 6 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Corinthians 6 (KJV)
1. Should a brother go to law against another before the unjust?
1 Corinthians 6:1
- Yes
- No
2. Who shall judge the world?
1 Corinthians 6:2
- A. Kings
- B. The Roman judges
- C. The saints
- D. The philosophers
3. What did the Corinthians need to judge their disputes?
1 Corinthians 6:5
- A. A Roman judge
- B. A Greek lawyer
- C. A Jewish priest
- D. A wise man among them
4. What was a fault among the Corinthians?
1 Corinthians 6:7
- A. Going to law one with another
- B. Giving too much
- C. Praying too much
- D. Meeting every week
5. Instead of fighting, what should we learn?
1 Corinthians 6:7
- A. To defend ourselves with lawyers
- B. To take wrong and suffer ourselves to be defrauded
- C. To collect what we are owed
- D. To avenge ourselves justly
6. Who shall not inherit the kingdom of God?
1 Corinthians 6:9
- A. The poor
- B. Believing Gentiles
- C. The unrighteous
- D. Children
7. Shall fornicators inherit the kingdom of God?
1 Corinthians 6:9
- Yes
- No
8. Shall idolaters inherit the kingdom of God?
1 Corinthians 6:9
- Yes
- No
9. Shall abusers of themselves with mankind inherit the kingdom of God?
1 Corinthians 6:9
- Yes
- No
10. We are washed, sanctified, and what else, in the name of the Lord Jesus?
1 Corinthians 6:11
- A. Circumcised
- B. Enriched
- C. Ordained
- D. Justified
11. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not what?
1 Corinthians 6:12
- A. Expedient
- B. Sin
- C. Good
- D. Holy
12. For what is the body not?
1 Corinthians 6:13
- A. For the Lord
- B. For fornication
- C. For the resurrection
- D. For service
13. Whose members are our bodies?
1 Corinthians 6:15
- A. Of the law
- B. Of the world
- C. Of Christ
- D. Of ourselves
14. He that is joined unto the Lord, what is he with him?
1 Corinthians 6:17
- A. A servant
- B. A stranger
- C. A distant disciple
- D. One spirit
15. What must we flee?
1 Corinthians 6:18
- A. Fornication
- B. The church
- C. Prayer
- D. The poor
16. Of what is our body the temple?
1 Corinthians 6:19
- A. Of the law
- B. Of the Holy Ghost
- C. Of idols
- D. Of the world
17. What should we do in our body and in our spirit?
1 Corinthians 6:20
- A. Please ourselves
- B. Serve the world
- C. Glorify God
- D. Seek riches
Notes
Seed of the Word
1 Corinthians 7 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Corinthians 7 (KJV)
1. It is good for a man not to touch a woman; but why should every man have his own wife?
1 Corinthians 7:1-2
- A. Because of inheritance
- B. Because of the law of Moses
- C. Because of riches
- D. To avoid fornication
2. To avoid fornication, what should every one do?
1 Corinthians 7:2
- A. Have his own spouse
- B. Fast every day
- C. Live apart in the desert
- D. Offer sacrifices
3. What should husband and wife render to one another?
1 Corinthians 7:3
- A. The solemn feasts
- B. Due benevolence (the marriage duty)
- C. The vows of the temple
- D. The traditions of their fathers
4. Who has power over the husband's body?
1 Corinthians 7:4
- A. His father
- B. The husband himself
- C. His wife
- D. The elders
5. Why may husband and wife separate by consent for a time?
1 Corinthians 7:5
- A. To travel
- B. To work
- C. To rest
- D. That they may give themselves to fasting and prayer
6. Was Paul unmarried?
1 Corinthians 7:8
- Yes
- No
7. Who commands that the wife not depart from her husband?
1 Corinthians 7:10
- A. Paul
- B. The Lord
- C. Moses
- D. The elders
8. Whom must the husband not put away?
1 Corinthians 7:11
- A. His parents
- B. His children
- C. His wife
- D. His servants
9. How is the unbelieving husband sanctified?
1 Corinthians 7:14
- A. By circumcision
- B. By the baptism of his children
- C. By the temple sacrifices
- D. By his believing wife
10. Why must we not be the servants of men?
1 Corinthians 7:23
- A. Because we are bought with a price
- B. Because we are rich
- C. Because Roman law forbids it
- D. Because we are Jews
11. Having no commandment of the Lord, concerning whom did Paul give his judgment?
1 Corinthians 7:25
- A. Concerning widows
- B. Concerning virgins
- C. Concerning servants
- D. Concerning elders
12. What does Paul call having trouble in the flesh?
1 Corinthians 7:28
- A. Fasting
- B. Sickness
- C. Being married
- D. Persecution
13. Why does the unmarried care for the things of the Lord?
1 Corinthians 7:32
- A. To be rich
- B. To be famous
- C. To govern the church
- D. That he may please the Lord
14. Could a father decide that his virgin daughter would not marry?
1 Corinthians 7:37
- Yes
- No
15. When may a married woman marry again?
1 Corinthians 7:39
- A. After her husband is dead
- B. When her husband travels
- C. When she tires of her husband
- D. After seven years
Notes
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1 Corinthians 8 — Study questions
Questions by Pastor Jose Acevedo
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Read first: 1 Corinthians 8 (KJV)
1. Knowledge puffeth up, but what edifieth?
1 Corinthians 8:1
- A. The law
- B. Charity (love)
- C. Riches
- D. Philosophy
2. Whom does God know?
1 Corinthians 8:3
- A. The wise
- B. The rich
- C. Those who love him
- D. Those who eat meat
3. What is an idol in the world?
1 Corinthians 8:4
- A. A mighty god
- B. A fallen angel
- C. An ancient king
- D. Nothing
4. Whose conscience is defiled?
1 Corinthians 8:7
- A. Those who are weak
- B. The strong
- C. The apostles
- D. The elders
5. Our liberty must never become what to the weak?
1 Corinthians 8:9
- A. A blessing
- B. A stumblingblock
- C. An example
- D. A teaching
6. Is it possible that, through my knowledge wrongly used, a brother for whom Christ died should perish?
1 Corinthians 8:11
- Yes
- No
7. Against whom do we sin when we wound the weak conscience of a brother?
1 Corinthians 8:12
- A. Against the elders
- B. Against the law
- C. Against Christ
- D. Against ourselves
8. If eating meat makes a brother to offend, what does Paul do?
1 Corinthians 8:13
- A. He eats only in secret
- B. He asks the brother to change
- C. He eats it with more thanksgiving
- D. He will eat no flesh while the world standeth