197 questions Paul asked across 12 books
“Who art thou, Lord?”
“Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?”
“Wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?”
“Sirs, why do ye these things?”
“And now do they thrust us out privily?”
“Have ye received the Holy Ghost since ye believed?”
“Unto what then were ye baptized?”
“What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart?”
“May I speak unto thee? Canst thou speak Greek?”
“What shall I do, LORD?”
“Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?”
“Sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?”
“Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?”
“King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets?”
“Thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?”
“Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?”
“Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? Thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?”
“Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? Thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?”
“Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?”
“Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?”
“Shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?”
“What advantage then hath the Jew? Or what profit is there of circumcision?”
“For what if some did not believe? Shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect?”
“But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?”
“For then how shall God judge the world?”
“And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say,) Let us do evil, that good may come?”
“What then? Are we better than they?”
“Where is boasting then? By what law? Of works?”
“Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles?”
“Do we then make void the law through faith?”
“What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?”
“For what saith the scripture?”
“Cometh this blessedness then upon the circumcision only, or upon the uncircumcision also?”
“How was it then reckoned? When he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision?”
“What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?”
“How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?”
“Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?”
“What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace?”
“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”
“What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed?”
“Know ye not, brethren, (for I speak to them that know the law,) how that the law hath dominion over a man as long as he liveth?”
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin?”
“Was then that which is good made death unto me?”
“Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?”
“For what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?”
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?”
“He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?”
“Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?”
“Who is he that condemneth?”
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?”
“What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God?”
“Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”
“Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”
“What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:”
“Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?”
“What shall we say then?”
“Wherefore?”
“Who shall ascend into heaven?”
“Who shall descend into the deep?”
“But what saith it?”
“How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?”
“And how shall they preach, except they be sent?”
“Have they not heard?”
“Did not Israel know?”
“Hath God cast away his people?”
“Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias?”
“But what saith the answer of God unto him?”
“What then?”
“Have they stumbled that they should fall?”
“Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?”
“For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?”
“For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?”
“For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been his counsellor?”
“Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?”
“Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power?”
“Who art thou that judgest another man's servant?”
“But why dost thou judge thy brother? Or why dost thou set at nought thy brother?”
“Hast thou faith?”
“Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were ye baptized in the name of Paul?”
“Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?”
“For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?”
“For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him?”
“Are ye not carnal, and walk as men?”
“Are ye not carnal?”
“Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man?”
“Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?”
“For who maketh thee to differ from another? What hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?”
“What will ye? Shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?”
“Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?”
“For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? Do not ye judge them that are within?”
“Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?”
“Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?”
“Know ye not that we shall judge angels? How much more things that pertain to this life?”
“Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? No, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?”
“Why do ye not rather take wrong? Why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?”
“Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God?”
“Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot?”
“What? Know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body?”
“What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?”
“What knowest thou, O wife, whether thou shalt save thy husband? Or how knowest thou, O man, whether thou shalt save thy wife?”
“Is any man called being circumcised? Is any called in uncircumcision?”
“Art thou called being a servant?”
“Art thou bound unto a wife? Art thou loosed from a wife?”
“If any man see thee which hast knowledge sit at meat in the idol's temple, shall not the conscience of him which is weak be emboldened to eat those things which are offered to idols”
“And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?”
“Am I not an apostle? Am I not free? Have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? Are not ye my work in the Lord?”
“Have we not power to eat and to drink?”
“Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?”
“Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?”
“Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? Who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? Or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?”
“Say I these things as a man? Or saith not the law the same also?”
“Doth God take care for oxen?”
“Or saith he it altogether for our sakes?”
“If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?”
“If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather?”
“Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of the things of the temple? And they which wait at the altar are partakers with the altar?”
“What is my reward then?”
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?”
“The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?”
“Are not they which eat of the sacrifices partakers of the altar?”
“What say I then? That the idol is any thing, or that which is offered in sacrifice to idols is any thing?”
“Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?”
“For why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?”
“For if I by grace be a partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?”
“Is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?”
“Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?”
“What? Have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? Or despise ye the church of God, and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this?”
“Is it therefore not of the body?”
“If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?”
“If they were all one member, where were the body?”
“Are all apostles? Are all prophets? Are all teachers? Are all workers of miracles?”
“Have all the gifts of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret?”
“If I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?”
“Even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?”
“If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?”
“Except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken?”
“What is it then?”
“When thou shalt bless with the spirit, how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest?”
“If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all speak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, will they not say that ye are mad?”
“How is it then, brethren?”
“What? Came the word of God out from you? Or came it unto you only?”
“If Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead?”
“Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? Why are they then baptized for the dead?”
“And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?”
“If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not?”
“O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
“When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? Or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?”
“For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me?”
“And who is sufficient for these things?”
“Do we begin again to commend ourselves? Or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?”
“How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?”
“For what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what communion hath light with darkness?”
“And what concord hath Christ with Belial? Or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?”
“And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols?”
“Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?”
“Have I committed an offence in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I have preached to you the gospel of God freely?”
“Wherefore? Because I love you not?”
“Are they Hebrews? Are they Israelites? Are they the seed of Abraham?”
“Are they ministers of Christ?”
“Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is offended, and I burn not?”
“For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you?”
“Though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved”
“Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you?”
“Did Titus make a gain of you? Walked we not in the same spirit? Walked we not in the same steps?”
“Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves unto you?”
“Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”
“For do I now persuade men, or God? Or do I seek to please men?”
“If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?”
“But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin?”
“O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you?”
“Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
“Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?”
“Have ye suffered so many things in vain?”
“He therefore that ministereth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”
“Wherefore then serveth the law?”
“Is the law then against the promises of God?”
“But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?”
“Where is then the blessedness ye spake of?”
“Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”
“Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?”
“Nevertheless what saith the scripture?”
“Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?”
“And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution?”
“Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?”
“What I shall choose”
“If ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances”
“After the commandments and doctrines of men?”
“For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?”
“For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God”
“Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face, and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?”
“Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?”
“For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?”
“How much more unto thee, both in the flesh, and in the Lord?”