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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.