.Bible Class Questions

         
    QUESTIONS OVER
    I CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 5:
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    1. What is the meaning of the word "fornication" as used in the New Testament?
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    2. What kind of fornication was being practiced in the church at Corinth which was not even "named among the Gentiles"?
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    3. Why had the Corinthian church not done anything about this?
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    4. Of the one guilty of this sin, Paul commanded them, "To deliever such a one unto Satan for __________________________ ___________________ that the spirit may be ________________ ________________________________________ ."
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    5. When and how was this to be done?
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    6. Besides in this chapter, where else in the New Testament is the saying "a little leaven leaventh the whole lump" found?
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    7. What is the meaning of this saying and how was Paul applying it here?
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    8. What is the twofold meaning of how the word "passover" is used in the Scriptures?
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    9. What or who does Paul say is our passover, and how does he make spiritual application of this to the situation at Corinth?
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    10. In his application here, how does he say they (and we) are to keep the feast?
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    11. How many epistles do we know of that were written by inspired men that God has not preserved as part of the New Testament?
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    12. What had Paul written before to the Corinthians about fornicators, as he states here?
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    13. Now how does he qualify or enlarge upon what he had written?
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    14. What other sinful practices are listed here if persisted in by supposed Christians should prompt others not to keep company with them?
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    15. What steps did Jesus say should be taken when a brother had wronged another and wouldn’t get things straightened out?
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    16. What are some other references or cases in the New Testament where disfellowship was practiced (or enjoined)?
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    17. Why should a church practice disfellowship when the situation demands it (give three reasons)?
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    18. Paul closed this chapter by saying, "Therefore _______ __________ from among yourselves that wicked person."
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    19. What would seem to indicate that the woman involved in this sinful relationship was not a Christian?
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    20. What seems to have finally been the outcome of this situation?
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    NAME: _________________________ DATE: ________________

    ANSWERS:  1. Any kind of sexual relation outside the legal bounds of marriage;  2. A man had taken his father's wife (stepmother), incest;   3. I Cor. 5:2;  4. I Cor. 5:5;   5. I Cor. 5:4;  6. Galatians 5:9;  7. As a little leaven permeates the whole loaf, the influence of sin unchecked would go throughout the whole church;  8. The animal killed and the feast itself were both called "passover";  9. Christ their passover had been killed, I Cor. 5:7, and now they were to purge out the leaven of sin and live the Christian life; 10. I Cor. 5:8;  11. One to the Corinthians, I Cor. 5:9, and one to the Laodiceans, Colossians 4:16;  12. I Cor. 5:9; 13. I Cor.5:9-10; 14. I Cor. 5:11;  15. Matthew 18:15-17; 16. Romans 16:17,18; II Thess. 3:6-15; I Timothy 6:3-5; II Timothy 3:1-5; Titus 3:9-11;  17.  (1) To purify the church ;  (2) To save the erring person's soul; (3) To be obedient in all things--I Cor. 5:5-8,13; II Cor. 2:6-9;  18. I Cor. 5:13; 19. Nothing is said about disfellowshipping the woman, so she must not have been in the church; 20. II Cor. 2:6-9.

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