Module 6: Week 6
Quiz: Pauline Epistles
75 out of 75
1. Which book has the following as a key passage: “Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the
dead and descended from David, according to my gospel, for which I suffer to the point
of being bound like a criminal. But the word of God is not bound. This is why I endure
all things for the elect: so that they also may obtain salvation, which is in Christ Jesus,
with eternal glory.”
a. 2 Timothy
2. The clear theme in Colossians is the supremacy and fullness of Christ. He is described in
the letter as the Son of God, fully divine, supreme, sufficient, and above all things.
a. True
3. Which book has the following as a key passage: “For those of you who were baptized
into Christ have been clothed with Christ. There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male
and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
a. Galatians
4. Which book has the following as a key passage: “For you are saved by grace through
faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—not from works, so that no one can
boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God
prepared ahead of time for us to do.”
a. Ephesians
5. Which book has the following as a key passage: “So then, just as you have received
Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him, being rooted and built up in him and
established in the faith, just as you were taught, and overflowing with gratitude.”
a. Colossians
6. Which book has the following as a key passage: “For the grace of God has appeared,
bringing salvation for all people, instructing us to deny godlessness and worldly lusts and
to live in a sensible, righteous, and godly way in the present age, while we wait for the
blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ. He
gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people
for his own possession, eager to do good works.”
a. Titus
7. ______________ addresses false teachings that were prevalent in the Cretan church, and
Paul used the letter to rebuke those who were trying to take advantage of the young
believers in Crete.
a. Titus
8. Which book has the following as a key passage: “So if you consider me a partner,
welcome him as you would me.” Paul’s primary purpose in this brief letter to Philemon
was to appeal to Philemon to receive Onesimus back. The basis for Paul’s appeal was
unity in Christ.
a. Philemon
9. Concerned about this community’s spiritual well-being and their willingness to accept his
previous instruction, Paul wrote 2 Corinthians and sent Titus to provide encouragement
and to get an update on the status of the church.
a. True
10. While division is one clear theme, 1 Corinthians also addresses the topics of sexual
immorality, lawsuits, proper worship practices, marriage, spiritual gifts, and the
resurrection.
a. True
11. The city of Samaria was the capital of Macedonia, an ancient Roman province in
modern-day Greece.
a. False
12. 1 Timothy is significantly more personal in content and tone than the other Pastoral
Epistles.
a. False
13. 2 Timothy mixes the concepts of unity, joy, and suffering, all centrally linked to Paul’s
hymnic description of the incarnation, humiliation, and glorification of Jesus Christ.
a. False
14. Which book has the following as a key passage: “Now these three remain: faith, hope,
and love—but the greatest of these is love.”
a. 1 Corinthians
15. Which book has the following as a key passage: “Additionally then, brothers and sisters,
we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from
us on how you should live and please God—as you are doing— do this even more.”
a. 1 Thessalonians
16. Rightly hailed as a great theological letter, ______________, as most of Paul’s letters,
journeys from “what is true” to “what we should do.
a. Romans
17. These two letters have quite a bit in common, both thematically and stylistically. Titus,
like 1 Timothy, was written with two audiences in mind. As a letter, it seems designed to
accomplish goals quite similar to 1 Timothy.
a. True
18. Which book has the following as a key passage: “He called you to this through our
gospel, so that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers and
sisters, stand firm and hold to the traditions you were taught, whether by what we said or
what we wrote.
a. 2 Thessalonians
19. A major theme in Paul’s letter to the Galatians is the theological concept of justification.
a. True
20. Which book has the following as a key passage: “For I am not ashamed of the gospel,
because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew,
and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith,
just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.”
a. Romans
21. One of the most important truths that Paul conveyed in Ephesians is that our salvation is
the work of God, and it is intended to produce “good works,” what we might describe
generally as acts of obedience, service, and love.
a. True
22. Which book has the following as a key passage: “He comforts us in all our affliction, so
that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the
comfort we ourselves receive from God. For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to
us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.”
a. 2 Corinthians
23. A two-part uniting theme that successfully describes the major contribution of both 1 and
2 Corinthians is sanctification in view of the day of the Lord.
a. False
24. Which book has the following as a key passage: “Adopt the same attitude [i.e., “way of
thinking”] as that of Christ Jesus.”
a. Philippians
25. Which book has the following as a key passage: “I have written so that you will know
how people ought to conduct themselves in God’s household, which is the church of the
living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.”
a. 1 Timothy
