1 Corinthians Questions
Text: 1 Corinthians chapter 7 [please read the text & answer the questions below]
1. Why does Paul say that each man should have his own wife and each woman should have her own husband? Please explain your answer.
2. How are the husband and wife to view their bodies?
3. What reason(s) does Paul give for a husband and wife, should they decide to deprive one another?
4. What state, married or unmarried, is Paul encouraging in this chapter for the Corinthian brethren? Please explain (refer to verses 6-9 and 24-40).
5. Some say that Paul gives a command in verse 10 and then gives an open-ended exception or reversal of the command in verse 11. Is this the case? How can we harmonize these two verses?
6. If a Christian is married to an unbeliever, what should he/she do and why (see
7. In verse 15, Paul states that if an unbelieving spouse departs from a believer, the believer is not under bondage. Does this mean that he/she is no longer bound to their spouse and, therefore, free to remarry?
8. What should be a key consideration for spouses from verse 16?
9. What is Paul's point in verses 17-24?
10. From verses 25-40, please make a list of what spiritual advantage the unmarried Christian has over the married Christian?
11. From verse 39, how long is a woman bound to her husband? What does the word "bound" in this verse mean (see
12. What restriction is put on Christian widows pertaining to remarrying in verse 39?