.Bible Class Questions

         
    QUESTIONS OVER
    I CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 13:
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    1. This chapter can be divided into what three main headings?
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    2. Paul said that though he could speak with the tongues (languages) of men and of angels, and didn’t have love, he would become as what?
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    3. Paul said that though he had the gift of prophecy (with its outworkings), and though he had the special faith that could move mountains, and didn’t have love, he would be what?
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    4. What acts of giving does Paul say that "profiteth me nothing" without love?
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    5. Name as many as you can (as listed here) of the positive things that love does.
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    6. Name as many as you can (as listed here) of the negative things that love does not do?
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    7. "Charity [love] suffereth long, and is ___________ …"
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    8. Love is "not puffed up"—what were some of the things the Corinthians were "puffed up" about?
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    9. When he says that love "thinketh no evil" (KJV), what does this mean?
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    10. Love "rejoiceth not in ______________ , but rejoiceth in the ___________ …"
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    11. What does Paul say that indicates that love is optimistic and looks for the best in things?
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    12. What, would you say, is the opposite of love?
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    13. Love never fails (drops away), but what does Paul say will "fail," "cease" and "vanish away" (representative of the spiritual gifts)?
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    14. What does Paul seem to mean when he said, "For we know in part, and we prophecy in part"?
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    15. What seems to be involved when he said, "But when that which is perfect [literally, complete] is come, then that which is in part shall be done away"?
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    16. Making this a parallel to the early church, what did Paul say he did as a child?
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    17. When he became a man, what did he do?
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    18. What is the "glass" or mirror that Christians look into?
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    19. What does Hebrews 2:3 and 4 say that is helpful in explaining the spiritual gifts?
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    20. "And now abideth _________ , _______ , and _________ , these three; but the greatest of these is _________ ."
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    NAME: _________________________ DATE: ________________

    ANSWERS:  1. We suggest the following headings: (1) The Futility of Religion Without Love (13:1-3); (2) The Characteristics of Love (What Love Does and Does not Do); (3) The Endurability of Love (13:8-13);  2. I Cor. 13:1;  3. I Cor. 13:2;  4. I Cor. 13:3;  5. I Cor. 13:4-7;  6. I Cor. 13:4-7;  7. I Cor. 13:4;  8. I Cor. 4,6,18,19; 5:1,2; 8:1; and evidently over spiritual gifts;  9. Doesn’t keep a record (as in malice and grudges);  10. I Cor. 13:6; 11. I Cor. 13:7;  12. Selfishness (inward perspective) and hate (outward perspective); 13. I Cor. 13:8;  14. The revelation of New Testament truth was not all at once, but as the Spirit led them into all truth (John 14:26; 16:13);  15. He is talking about the completed and final revelation of God’s truth, and the "in part" situation being done away;  16. I Cor. 13:11;  17. I Cor. 13:11;  18. God’s New Testament truth (James 1:23-25; II Cor. 3:17,18);  19. Gifts or distributions of the Holy Spirit were made by the apostles according to God’s will (Hebrews 2:3,4);  20. I Cor. 13:13.
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