1 corinthians 8-15

Q: What must regulate Christian liberty: knowledge or love?

A: Love. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up.

Q: Why is eating idol food wrong for some believers

A: Because it violates their conscience (8:7).

Q: What mistake did the Corinthians risk by pressuring weaker believers to eat idol food?

A: They caused them to sin against their conscience.

Q: What example does Paul use to show giving up his rights for others?

A: He refuses material support, though he has a right to it, for the sake of the gospel (9:3–18).

Q: What warning does Israel’s wilderness experience give the Corinthians?

A: Do not crave evil things, commit idolatry, or immorality (10:6–8)

Q: What promise does God give regarding temptation?

A: He will not allow it beyond what we can bear and provides a way of escape (10:13).

Q: Why can believers not participate in idol feasts?

A: Because sharing idol food = sharing with demons (10:20–21).

Q: What principle guides eating food sold in the market?

A: It belongs to God, so they may eat freely (10:25–26).

Q: What should believers do if someone identifies food as idol food?

A: Do not eat, for the sake of the other person’s conscience (10:28–29).

Q: What is the true purpose of Christian freedom?

A: To glorify God and edify others (10:31–33).

Q: What issue does Paul address in 1 Corinthians 11:2–16?

A: Women covering their heads when praying or prophesying.

Q: What is Paul’s argument based on?

A: What is customary, honorable, proper, and rooted in creation, not inequality.

Q: Does the functional difference between man and woman imply inequality?

A: No. Roles differ, but worth and being are equal.

Q: What creation truths does Paul cite?

A: Woman came from man and was created for man (11:8–9; Gen 2:22–23).

Q: Why should women wear a head covering?

A: As a symbol of authority, “because of the angels” (11:10).

Q: What does it mean to partake of the Lord’s Supper “in an unworthy manner”?

A: Having the wrong attitude, discriminating against members of Christ’s body.

Q: What attitude should believers have in the Lord’s Supper?

A: Unity, equality, and right relationships as one body in Christ.

Q: What do the diversity of gifts and unity of the Spirit reflect?

A: The unity and diversity of the Triune God.

Q: What was the focus of Corinth’s gift-list?

A: Supernatural, revelatory gifts (prophecy, tongues, knowledge) that authenticated the apostolic message.

Q: How is the church like a body?

A: Many diverse members form one body united by the Spirit (12:12–14).

Q: What is “the more excellent way” in exercising gifts?

A: Love (ch. 13).

Q: Why is love greater than faith and hope?

A: Faith and hope end in sight, but love continues into eternity.

Q: Why should prophecy be preferred over tongues?

A: Prophecy edifies immediately in the common language, while tongues do not unless interpreted.

Q: What two goals guide spiritual gifts in the assembly?

A: Intelligibility and order (ch. 14).

Q: Why are women not permitted to judge prophecies in the church?

A: Because doing so would undermine submission to male leadership.