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    The Church Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers

    All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.

    1. Q1.Upon what did Jesus say He would build His church?

      • A. The law of Moses
      • B. Upon this rock / Himself, the Son of the living God
      • C. The temple in Jerusalem
      • D. The Roman government

      Answer: Upon this rock / Himself, the Son of the living God

      Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

      Read Matthew 16:18 (KJV)

    2. Q2.Who is the head of the church?

      • A. The pope
      • B. The apostle Peter
      • C. Christ
      • D. The elders

      Answer: Christ

      And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.

      Read Colossians 1:18 (KJV)

    3. Q3.What did the early church continue stedfastly in?

      • A. The apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers
      • B. Political activism
      • C. Wealth accumulation
      • D. Military training

      Answer: The apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers

      And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

      Read Acts 2:42 (KJV)

    4. Q4.How does 1 Corinthians 12:13 say we are baptized into one body?

      • A. By water baptism alone
      • B. By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body
      • C. By circumcision
      • D. By nationality

      Answer: By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body

      For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

      Read 1 Corinthians 12:13 (KJV)

    5. Q5.What are believers called in 1 Peter 2:5?

      • A. A royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people
      • B. Citizens of Rome
      • C. Members of a guild
      • D. Subjects of a king

      Answer: A royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people

      Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

      Read 1 Peter 2:5 (KJV)

    6. Q6.What did Jesus give to the church?

      • A. Wealth
      • B. Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints
      • C. Political power
      • D. Land and territory

      Answer: Apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers, for the perfecting of the saints

      And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers; For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.

      Read Ephesians 4:11 (KJV)

    7. Q7.What does Hebrews 10:25 tell us not to forsake?

      • A. The assembling of ourselves together
      • B. Our jobs
      • C. Our families
      • D. Our property

      Answer: The assembling of ourselves together

      Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

      Read Hebrews 10:25 (KJV)

    8. Q8.What is the church called in 1 Timothy 3:15?

      • A. The house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth
      • B. A political organisation
      • C. A social club
      • D. A business

      Answer: The house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth

      But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

      Read 1 Timothy 3:15 (KJV)

    9. Q9.What is the relationship of Christ to the church compared to in Ephesians 5?

      • A. A king and subjects
      • B. A master and slave
      • C. A husband and wife
      • D. A father and child

      Answer: A husband and wife

      Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word.

      Read Ephesians 5:25 (KJV)

    10. Q10.Who purchased the church with His own blood?

      • A. Paul
      • B. Peter
      • C. The apostles
      • D. Christ / God

      Answer: Christ / God

      Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

      Read Acts 20:28 (KJV)