1.What are the results of being comforted? (CHAPTER 1)
2. What does Paul say they should do with the person causing grief in their church? (CHAPTER 2)
3. How does Paul use fragrance and aroma as an analogy? (CHAPTER 2)
4. How are the Corinthians like a letter? (CHAPTER 3)
5. Why does Paul say we have “unveiled” faces when we reflect the Lord’s glory, and what is the result of this? (CHAPTER 3)
6. What blinds the minds of unbelievers and what is the result of God shining his light in the hearts of believers? (CHAPTER 4)
7. Why does Paul emphasize that we are jars of clay? (CHAPTER 4)
8. What is our main goal while we are here on earth? (CHAPTER 5)
9. How are we Christ’s ambassadors? (CHAPTER 5)
10. Paul shares his many hardships. What are the powerful and positive things he has done for them as he quotes Isaiah 49 concerning the day of salvation? (CHAPTER 6)
11. Why was Paul ultimately happy even if his letter had caused them sorrow? (CHAPTER 7)
1 How are the promises God has made in Christ “Yes” and “Amen,” and what does God give as a guarantee? (CHAPTER 1)
2 What does Paul mean that God always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ? (CHAPTER 2)
3. What does Paul mean that the letter kills but the Spirit gives life? (CHAPTER 3)
4 Why do we not lose heart even in difficult times? (CHAPTER 4)
5 Paul says our body is like a tent on earth What awaits us in heaven and how can we be sure? (CHAPTER 6)
6 How are we to view others as we walk in the ministry of reconciliation? (CHAPTER 6)
7. How do we perfect holiness out of reverence for God? (CHAPTER 7)
C O N S I D E R A T I O N
C O R N E R
ANSWERS TO LESSON 21 OBSERVATIONS
1. It produces patient endurance and we are able to comfort others with the same comfort. (1:3 - 6)
2. Forgive him, comfort him, and reaffirm their love for him. (2:5 - 8)
3. We are the aroma of Christ. To those who are being saved, it is the fragrance of life, and to unbelievers, it is the smell of death. (2:15 - 16)
4. Christ has written on their hearts by the Spirit for all to read. (3:2 - 3)
5. Moses had to put a veil over his face to dampen God’s glory because the Israelites were hard of heart and couldn’t look upon it. With the freedom from the Spirit of the Lord, we reflect God’s glory, which transforms us into Christ’s image. (3:12 - 18)
6. The god of this age blinds the minds of unbelievers, but God shining his light into the hearts of believers gives the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. (4:4 - 6)
7. So everyone will know that the all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. (4:7)
8. To please Christ and live our lives for him. (5:9,15)
9. God makes his appeal through us to the world, with the ministry of reconciliation between God and people. (5:18 - 20)
10. Purity, understanding, patience, kindness, love, truth, and the power of God. (6:1 - 13)
11. Their sorrow brought repentance, which led to their salvation. (7:8 - 10)
Consider this:
In the midst of all his hardships, Paul emphasizes that the treasure of Christ is found in us as jars of clay Nothing could be a greater contrast than Christ the amazing treasure found in a clay pot People have always tried to be something other than a jar, and also spend billions of dollars trying to dress up and makeup their jars Christians excel in this world when we spend more time “perfecting holiness out of reverence for God ” (7:1)
QUESTIONS FOR DEEPER THOUGHT
1. God is faithful and not “yes and no” in his promises. He puts his Spirit in our hearts, as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. (1:18 - 22)
2. There is always victory in Christ when we walk with him, no matter what the circumstances. (2:14)
3. The letter of law written in stone in the Old Testament does not produce forgiveness in itself, and therefore it kills. The Spirit of Christ, under the New Covenant, brings forgiveness and freedom, which is life. (3:6 - 8)
4. We are being renewed every day, and we focus on eternal things that we cannot see, not the world that is temporary. (4:16 - 18)
5. God has said we have an eternal building in heaven, which we believe because we walk by faith and not by sight. (5:1 - 7)
6. We should not regard others from a worldly point of view but see each Christian as a new creation in Christ. (5:16 - 18)
7. Any alliance that requires trust and commitment should not happen between Christians and unbelievers who do not live righteously. (6:14)
8. By the promises of God we purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit. (7:1)
O B S E R V A T I O N S
1.What does Paul desire in the character of their giving and how will he handle the offerings (CHAPTER 8)
2. How would each person know what to give and what is the result of being generous? (CHAPTER 9)
3. How does Paul apply the analogy of seed, harvest, and bread? (CHAPTER 9)
4. How do they view Paul in person and in his letters? (CHAPTER 10)
5. Why did Paul think they might be like Eve and who was influencing them? (CHAPTER 11)
6. Why did Paul think he was talking like a fool? (CHAPTER 11)
7. How can weaknesses be a benefit to us? (CHAPTER 12)
8. What is Paul afraid he will find the next time he visits the Corinthians? (CHAPTER 13)
9. How was Christ weak and what was the result? (CHAPTER 13)
D E E P E R T H O U G H T
1 How was Christ rich and how did he become poor for us? (CHAPTER 8)
2. What is a cheerful giver and how does God view him? (CHAPTER 9)
3. What are the strongholds Paul is talking about and what weapons do Christians use to demolish them? (CHAPTER 10)
4 How does it affect Christians when Satan masquerades as an angel of light? (CHAPTER 11)
5. Paul is likely talking about himself when he says he knows a man who was caught up to the third heaven. How do we know this and why doesn’t he just say it was him? (CHAPTER 12)
6 What was the purpose that God allowed Paul to have a “thorn in his flesh,” and why didn’t God take it away when Paul asked three times? (CHAPTER 12)
7. Why does Paul use some sarcasm and humor with the Corinthians? (CHAPTER 12)
8 Does Paul tell them to be perfect? (CHAPTER 13)
C O N S I D E R A T I O N
C O R N E R
ANSWERS TO LESSON 22 OBSERVATIONS
1.To give equally to other churches and finish what they had started in their donations. Paul will take pains to do what is right with the offering. (8:10 -13, 21)
2. Each one gives what he has decided in his heart. If a person gives generously, he will reap generously. (9:6 - 7)
3. God supplies the seed of the Spirit to be sown into people's lives and they will harvest righteousness and feed on spiritual bread. (9:10 - 15)
4. His letters are weighty and forceful but in person he is unimpressive and his speaking amounts to nothing. (10:10)
5. He was concerned they would be deceived like Eve by false apostles with a false gospel. (11:3 - 15)
6. He was boasting, which was not like him. (11:16 - 21)
7. God’s power is made perfect in weakness. (12:9)
8. Quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder. (12:20)
9. Christ was crucified in weakness but lives by God’s power and gives us life. (13:4)
Consider this:
Corinth was a proud and prosperous city but also grossly immoral Its reputation was so well known that if someone were acting proudly sinful, others would say “Don’t be such a Corinthian!” Paul addressed a dozen behavioral concerns and emphasized that their bodies and the church are God’s temples. Paul was not concerned that the church was in Corinth, he was concerned that Corinth was in the church!
QUESTIONS FOR DEEPER THOUGHT
1. Though he was free from Jewish law he embraced the spirit of the law to win Jews. To the Gentiles, he lived as free from the Jewish law, but without worldly ways, to win Gentiles. (9:19 - 23)
2. He gives us a path out of temptation and strength to overcome. (10:13)
3. Food sacrificed to idols is for demons. In the Lord’s supper, the wine and bread represent the body and blood of Jesus the Son of the true and living God. (10:16 - 22)
4. Men and women are not independent of each other and both come from God. In the Lord we are equal. (11:11 - 12)
5. When we judge ourselves we won’t be judged by others, and when God judges us it is for discipline, which is good. (11:31 - 32)
6. Idols cannot speak to give wisdom and direction. The living God speaks to us through the gifts of the Spirit to guide us. (12:1 - 11)
7. We need each other to have a complete Christian experience and church life. We relate together in both times of sorrow and rejoicing. (12:12 - 26)
8. Love is patient and kind, doesn’t envy or boast, isn’t proud, rude, or self-seeking. Love is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs, and does not delight in evil. Love rejoices in truth, always protects, trusts, hopes, and perseveres. Love never fails. (13)
9. He was referring to women not asking their husbands something in the middle of worship. (14:3335)
10. The perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. (15:5354)
11. Acts 16:1 tells us his mother was Jewish and his father was Greek, so he could have felt rejection from either group, and he was timid by nature according to 2 Timothy 1:6 - 7. (16:10 - 11)
