# 1 Corinthians Bible Trivia: 37 Questions and Answers > 37 1 Corinthians Bible trivia questions with answers and verse references -- the love chapter, the resurrection, and one messy church, easy to expert. **Ages:** Ages 5+ **Published:** 2026-08-14 **Updated:** 2026-08-15 **Canonical:** https://faithfulkids.app/blog/1-corinthians-bible-trivia --- These 37 1 Corinthians Bible trivia questions cover the love chapter, the Lord's Supper, the body with many parts, and the great resurrection chapter -- with answers and verse references after every question. They're sorted into easy, medium, and hard rounds so ages 5 through adult can play the same game. 1 Corinthians is secretly one of the most quotable books in the Bible -- "love is patient," "in the twinkling of an eye," "bad company corrupts good character" -- so even kids who've never opened it will recognize half the answers. The hard round holds a genuine surprise: this famous letter wasn't actually Paul's first one to Corinth (question 30). ## What Is the Book of 1 Corinthians About? 1 Corinthians is the apostle Paul's letter to a talented but messy young church in Corinth, a wealthy Greek port city, answering their problems one by one: divisions, lawsuits, food offered to idols, chaotic worship, and confusion about the resurrection. Paul had planted the church himself, staying a year and a half (Acts 18:11), and wrote this letter a few years later from Ephesus (1 Corinthians 16:8), around AD 55. The letter's heartbeat is chapter 13 -- the "love chapter" read at countless weddings, though Paul actually wrote it to squabbling church members -- and its summit is chapter 15, the Bible's fullest teaching on the resurrection. The big idea: a church with every spiritual gift still amounts to nothing without love (1 Corinthians 13:1-3). ## Easy 1 Corinthians Trivia Questions (Ages 5-8) 1. Who wrote 1 Corinthians? **The apostle Paul** (1 Corinthians 1:1) 2. Corinth was a big port city in which land? **Greece** (Acts 18:1) 3. Finish the famous verse: "Love is patient, love is ___" **Kind** (1 Corinthians 13:4) 4. Three things remain -- faith, hope, and love. Which is the greatest? **Love** (1 Corinthians 13:13) 5. Your body is a temple of whom? **The Holy Spirit** (1 Corinthians 6:19) 6. What special meal did Jesus begin that Paul explains, saying "do this in remembrance of me"? **The Lord's Supper** (1 Corinthians 11:23-25) 7. What happened to Jesus "on the third day according to the Scriptures"? **He was raised from the dead** (1 Corinthians 15:4) 8. Whatever you do, do it all for what? **The glory of God** (1 Corinthians 10:31) 9. The church is like one body with many ___. **Parts** (1 Corinthians 12:12) ## Medium 1 Corinthians Trivia Questions (Ages 9-12) 10. The church had split into fan clubs around which four names? **Paul, Apollos, Cephas (Peter), and Christ** (1 Corinthians 1:12) 11. Whose household told Paul about the quarrels? **Chloe's** (1 Corinthians 1:11) 12. "I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but ___" **God has been making it grow** (1 Corinthians 3:6) 13. Because they weren't ready for solid food, what did Paul feed the Corinthians? **Milk** (1 Corinthians 3:2) 14. The message of the cross is ___ to those who are perishing. **Foolishness** (1 Corinthians 1:18) 15. Runners in the games get a crown that won't last -- what kind do believers run for? **A crown that will last forever** (1 Corinthians 9:24-25) 16. When you are tempted, what does God promise to provide? **A way out** (1 Corinthians 10:13) 17. In chapter 12, which body part says to the hand, "I don't need you!"? **The eye** (1 Corinthians 12:21) 18. "For now we see only a reflection as in a ___" **Mirror** (1 Corinthians 13:12) 19. Love keeps no record of ___. **Wrongs** (1 Corinthians 13:5) 20. How many people saw the risen Jesus at the same time? **More than five hundred** (1 Corinthians 15:6) 21. "Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your ___?" **Sting** (1 Corinthians 15:55) 22. On which day of the week were believers told to set aside money for God's people? **The first day of the week** (1 Corinthians 16:2) 23. Finish the warning: "Bad company corrupts good ___" **Character** (1 Corinthians 15:33) 24. If Christ has not been raised, what does Paul say about our faith? **It is futile -- useless** (1 Corinthians 15:17) There is a free [Noah's Ark word search](https://faithfulkids.app/printables/bible-word-search/noahs-ark) to go with this, playable on a phone and printable for a class. ## Hard 1 Corinthians Trivia Questions (Teens and Adults) 25. Who is named alongside Paul as a sender of the letter? **Sosthenes** (1 Corinthians 1:1) 26. From which city did Paul write 1 Corinthians? **Ephesus** (1 Corinthians 16:8) 27. Who does Paul call "the last Adam"? **Christ** (1 Corinthians 15:45) 28. What is "the last enemy to be destroyed"? **Death** (1 Corinthians 15:26) 29. How quickly will believers be changed at the last trumpet? **In a flash, in the twinkling of an eye** (1 Corinthians 15:52) 30. Trick question: was 1 Corinthians the first letter Paul wrote to Corinth? **No -- Paul mentions an earlier letter that we no longer have** (1 Corinthians 5:9) 31. Which converts could Paul remember baptizing in Corinth? **Crispus, Gaius, and the household of Stephanas** (1 Corinthians 1:14-16) 32. Which husband-and-wife team sent greetings, along with "the church that meets at their house"? **Aquila and Priscilla** (1 Corinthians 16:19) 33. Who described himself as "one abnormally born" because the risen Jesus appeared to him last? **Paul** (1 Corinthians 15:8) 34. Paul says a spiritual rock accompanied Israel in the desert -- who was that rock? **Christ** (1 Corinthians 10:4) 35. "Knowledge puffs up, but love ___" **Builds up** (1 Corinthians 8:1) 36. God is not a God of disorder but of ___. **Peace** (1 Corinthians 14:33) 37. How many chapters does 1 Corinthians have? **Sixteen** ## Why Was the Church in Corinth Such a Mess? Because Corinth itself was -- and knowing the city unlocks the whole letter. Corinth was a rich, rebuilt Roman port sitting on a narrow land bridge between two seas, famous for its markets, its temples, and its anything-goes reputation. New believers walked into church carrying all of it: status games (chapter 1), lawsuits (chapter 6), meat from idol temples (chapters 8-10), and rich members feasting at the Lord's Supper while poor members went hungry (chapter 11). That context turns chapter 13 from a greeting card into a thunderclap. "Love is patient, love is kind... it is not proud... it is not self-seeking" (1 Corinthians 13:4-5) is a point-by-point reversal of how the Corinthians were treating each other. A great dinner-table exercise for older kids: read 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 and replace the word "love" with your own name -- then talk about which line stings the most. Paul knew Corinth's games from his own eighteen months there; the story of how the church began is told in [Paul in Corinth](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/paul-in-corinth-for-kids). ## How to Use These Questions Play it in three themed rounds: the messy-church round (questions on divisions and the body), the love-chapter round, and the resurrection round -- chapter 15 questions make a natural grand finale. The fill-in-the-blank format lets young kids compete with teens on equal footing. For team setups and scorekeeping, use our [family Bible trivia night](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/family-bible-trivia-night) playbook. For the backstory, read [who was Paul](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/who-was-paul-for-kids), and for the letter's two most famous ideas retold at kid level, see [Love Is](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/love-is-for-kids) and [Faith, Hope, and Love](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/faith-hope-and-love-for-kids). Our video lessons at [Faithful Kids](https://faithfulkids.app/quiz) pair every story with a short animated video and a quiz -- perfect trivia training. Want a mix from the whole Bible? Try our [Bible trivia for kids](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/bible-trivia-for-kids) next. Churches are welcome to embed our [Bible trivia game](https://faithfulkids.app/bible-trivia) on their own site at no cost — [here's the one-line setup](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/bible-trivia-embed-for-church-website). Playing with grown-ups at the table? Our [Bible trivia for adults](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/bible-trivia-for-adults) gives them 50 hard questions of their own, with a warm-up round built to humble the confident. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### Who wrote 1 Corinthians? The apostle Paul wrote 1 Corinthians, with a believer named Sosthenes named alongside him in the opening line (1 Corinthians 1:1). Paul had founded the church in Corinth on his second missionary journey (Acts 18) and wrote this letter from Ephesus around AD 55. ### How many chapters does 1 Corinthians have? 1 Corinthians has 16 chapters. A quick map: chapters 1-6 tackle the church's divisions and moral problems, 7-14 answer their written questions about marriage, food, worship, and spiritual gifts, and 15-16 cover the resurrection and a collection for Jerusalem. ### What is the love chapter in the Bible? 1 Corinthians 13, which begins "If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong." Though it's now read at weddings, Paul wrote it to a divided church to show that every gift and achievement is worthless without love -- and that "the greatest of these is love" (13:13). ### What is the main message of 1 Corinthians? That the cross reshapes everything about how believers live together -- their unity, their bodies, their worship, and their future. Paul answers a dozen practical problems with one repeated principle: you were bought at a price, so build each other up in love (1 Corinthians 6:20; 8:1). ### Why is 1 Corinthians 15 so important? It's the Bible's longest chapter on the resurrection, listing eyewitnesses of the risen Jesus -- Peter, the Twelve, more than 500 at once, James, and Paul himself (15:5-8) -- and arguing that if Christ was not raised, faith is useless (15:17). It ends with the promise that believers will be raised too, "in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye" (15:52). ### What age can kids start learning 1 Corinthians? Ages 5-8 can memorize the love chapter's opening lines and the body-parts picture of chapter 12, which reads almost like a fable. Ages 9-12 can handle the whole letter's practical questions, and the resurrection logic of chapter 15 rewards teens. For mixed questions from every book, start with our [New Testament trivia for kids](https://faithfulkids.app/blog/new-testament-bible-trivia-for-kids). --- *Faithful Kids (https://faithfulkids.app) — Bible video lessons for kids ages 5-15. This is the Markdown edition of the page above; the HTML page is canonical.*