Characteristics of a Good Church:

Quiz #9  Everyone Is a Servant

·         Base your answers on the assigned readings

·         Assigned readings posted below Question #12.

·         Cite the Scripture which is the basis of your response

·         Email answers to bible_reading_quiz@live.com

·         Due date: 11:59 PM (PST) on Tuesday July 7^th

1) What reason is given for believers to submit to one another?

2) The commandment given to believers by God is twofold. The second aspect of the commandment is to love one another. What is the first aspect of the command?

3) What are believers to be doing for each other, particularly as they see the Day drawing near?

4) What is the primary function of the apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers?

5) Why should all believers clothe themselves with humility in their relations with other believers?

6) Though free to serve the Lord in freedom, to whom are believers to become slaves?

7) What type of repayment are believers to ensure doesn’t happen?

8) What should be absent when believers show hospitality to one another?

9) List the passages that instruct believers to give the holy kiss to one another.

10) Believers are to do what for one another in all wisdom?

11) What one another activities among believers seems to aid healing?

12) What three steps seem to help believers to live in harmony with one another?

The following are from the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) of the Bible

Leviticus 25:17  
You shall not cheat one another, but you shall fear your God; for I am the Lord your God.

Zechariah 7:9  
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another;

Zechariah 8:16-17  

These are the things that you shall do: Speak the truth to one another, render in your gates judgments that are true and make for peace, ¹⁷do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate, says the Lord.

Malachi 2:10  
Have we not all one father? Has not one God created us? Why then are we faithless to one another, profaning the covenant of our ancestors?

Mark 10:41-45
When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. ⁴²So Jesus called them and said to them, “You know that among the Gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them. ⁴³But it is not so among you; but whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant, ⁴⁴and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all. ⁴⁵For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.”

John 13:14  
So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.

John 13:34-35
I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. ³⁵By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.

John 15:12
"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.

John 15:17
These things I command you, so that you will love one another.

Romans 1:12  
or rather so that we may be mutually encouraged by each other’s faith, both yours and mine.

Romans 12:4-5

For as in one body we have many members, and not all the members have the same function, ⁵so we, who are many, are one body in Christ, and individually we are members one of another.

Romans 12:10  
Love one another with mutual affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.

Romans 12:16
Live in harmony with one another. Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly. Never be wise in your own sight.

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.

Romans 14:13
Therefore let us not pass judgment on one another any longer, but rather decide never to put a stumbling block or hindrance in the way of a brother.

Romans 14:19

So then let us pursue what makes for peace and mutual upbuilding

Romans15:5
May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,

Romans 15:7
Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.

Romans 15:14
I myself feel confident about you, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, and able to instruct one another.

Romans 16:16
Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.

1 Corinthians 6:7
To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded?

1 Corinthians 7:5
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

1 Corinthians 11:33
So then, my brothers and sisters, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

1 Corinthians 12:25
²⁵that there may be no dissension within the body, but the members may have the same care for one another.

1 Corinthians 16:20
All the brothers and sisters send greetings. Greet one another with a holy kiss.

2 Corinthians 10:12
We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves. But when they measure themselves by one another, and compare themselves with one another, they do not show good sense.

2 Corinthians 13:11-12
Finally, brothers and sisters, farewell. Put things in order, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you. ¹²Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the saints greet you.

Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become slaves to one another.

Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Ephesians 4:2
with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Ephesians 4:8-16

Therefore it is said, “When he ascended on high he made captivity itself a captive; he gave gifts to his people.” ⁹(When it says, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? ¹⁰He who descended is the same one who ascended far above all the heavens, so that he might fill all things.) ¹¹The gifts he gave were that some would be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, ¹²to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, ¹³until all of us come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to maturity, to the measure of the full stature of Christ. ¹⁴We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in deceitful scheming. ¹⁵But speaking the truth in love, we must grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, ¹⁶from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every ligament with which it is equipped, as each part is working properly, promotes the body’s growth in building itself up in love.

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.  

Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 5:19
addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody to the Lord with your heart,

Ephesians 5:21
submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Colossians 3:9
Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

Colossians 3:13
bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.

Colossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.

1 Thessalonians 3:12
and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all, as we do for you,

1 Thessalonians 4:9
Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another,

1 Thessalonians 4:18
Therefore encourage one another with these words.

1 Thessalonians 5:11
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

1 Thessalonians 5:15
See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.

2 Thessalonians 1:3
We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers, as is right, because your faith is growing abundantly, and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.

Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another every day, as long as it is called "today," that none of you may be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 10:24-25
And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

James 4:11
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers and sisters. Whoever speaks evil against another or judges another, speaks evil against the law and judges the law; but if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

James 5:9
Beloved, do not grumble against one another, so that you may not be judged. See, the Judge is standing at the doors!

James 5:16
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.

1 Peter 1:22
Now that you have purified your souls by your obedience to the truth so that you have genuine mutual love, love one another deeply from the heart.

1 Peter 4:8-10
Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."

1 Peter 5:14
Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.

1 John 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 3:11
For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another.

1 John 3:23
And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

1 John 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 John 4:11-12
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.

2 John 1:5
And now I ask you, dear lady— not as though I were writing you a new commandment, but the one we have had from the beginning— that we love one another.