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and distinctive characteristic of love that
relates the Christian to other persons.
3. What do you think contributes to
spiritual problems in the early months and
years of a born-again believer’s spiritual life?
Why do spiritual problems often arise very
early in the life of a newly organized local
church?
IX. REVIEW QUESTIONS ON 1 CORINTHIANS
1. Were the Corinthian letters written
before or after Romans?
2. Distinguish between: local church,
visible church at large, invisible church.
3. Describe the city of Corinth when Paul
first visited it.
4. What does the word korinthiazomai
mean literally, and how was it used?
5. Describe Paul’s
rst activities in
founding the local church at Corinth.
6. Describe the first church at Corinth.
7. What two contacts did Paul have with
the Corinthians after his first visit and before
he wrote the first letter?
8. When and where was 1 Corinthians
written?
9. Why did Paul write this letter?
10. Identify the main divisions of the
structure of 1 Corinthians.
11. What are the three groups of problems
discussed?
12. List key words, and identify a key
verse of the letter.
13. Identify these by chapter number:
marriage, spiritual gifts, love, resurrection
body.
X. FURTHER STUDY OF 1 CORINTHIANS
With the help of outside sources study
further the phenomenon of speaking in
t o n g u e s (glossolalia).20 Concerning the
situation at Corinth, there are two di erent
views as to the exact nature of the tongues:
(1) they were the same kind of utterances
such as were spoken on the day of Pentecost
(Acts 2:1-13) — languages foreign and
unintelligible to the speakers, but native and
intelligible to di erent groups of hearers; or
(2) they were ecstatic utterances of a
nonexistent language, understood by the
listeners only through an interpreter.
Include in your studies these areas:
a. the false and the true
b. temporary gift or permanent gift
c. recent spread of the “tongues
movement” in the Christian world.
XI. OUTLINE
XII. BACKGROUND OF 2 CORINTHIANS
Paul’s second letter to the Corinthians is
the most personal of his writings. It is lled
with personal testimonies and has been
called his Apologia Pro Vita Sua (“defense of
his life”).
A. BIOGRAPHICAL SETTING
The background of the second Corinthian
letter is closely involved with that of the
