Book of Ephesians Trivia
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100 free Book of Ephesians trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ephesians is short enough to read in twenty minutes and dense enough to argue about for a lifetime. Written from prison, it opens with one enormous Greek sentence of blessing, insists that Jew and Gentile are now one body, and closes with a Roman soldier's kit turned into a picture of spiritual warfare. These 100 questions follow the book in order: the opening blessing and the prayers, grace and works, the dividing wall, the mystery hidden for ages, the seven 'ones' and the five gifts, anger and the devil's foothold, the household rules for husbands, wives, children, parents, slaves and masters, and the armour piece by piece. They then step outside the text: the riot in Ephesus in Acts 19, the city's temple and theatre, the doubts about who wrote it, the oldest manuscripts and a Methodist hymn. It suits a Bible study, a church quiz night or anyone who has heard 'by grace you have been saved' and wonders what the rest of the book says. Play it on a phone with instant explanations, or print it and read it aloud.
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Q 01Which goddess's temple at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders, did Paul's preaching threaten in Acts 19?
Artemis
Artemis of the Ephesians was the rioters' chant, and the city clerk calmed them by insisting Ephesus was 'the guardian of the temple of the great Artemis and of her image, which fell from heaven'.
Q 02Ephesians 2 says Christ 'has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of' what?
Hostility
Hostility is the wall that falls, and the stated purpose is 'to create in himself one new humanity out of the two, thus making peace'.
Q 03Ephesians 2 says believers are saved by grace 'through faith' and 'not by works', so that no one can do what?
Boast
Boast is ruled out because being saved 'is the gift of God', yet the very next verse says believers were 'created in Christ Jesus to do good works'.
Q 04Which shield in Ephesians 6 can 'extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one'?
The shield of faith
The shield of faith is named with the Greek word for a door-shaped shield big enough to stand behind, and flaming arrows were real weapons, tipped with burning tow.
Q 05Ephesians 6:12 says the believer's struggle is not against what, but against 'the spiritual forces of evil'?
Flesh and blood
Flesh and blood are set aside for 'the rulers', 'the authorities' and 'the powers of this dark world', which the KJV calls 'principalities' and 'powers'.
Q 06Ephesians 4 counts one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one God and one what?
Baptism
Baptism completes the list, which follows the plea to 'keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace' and the call to be 'completely humble and gentle'.
Q 07Which of the Ten Commandments does Ephesians 6 call 'the first commandment with a promise'?
Honor your father and mother
Honor your father and mother carries the promise 'that you may enjoy long life on the earth', quoted from Deuteronomy, and is addressed to children told to obey 'in the Lord'.
Q 08Ephesians 3 ends by praising God as able to do 'immeasurably more than all we ask or' what?
Imagine
Imagine closes the line, with the power 'at work within us', and the doxology ends the doctrinal half before chapter 4 urges a life 'worthy of the calling'.
Q 09Ephesians 4 permits anger but not sin, and sets which daily event as the deadline for staying angry?
Sunset
Sunset is the cut-off: 'do not let the sun go down while you are still angry', and the next verse adds 'do not give the devil a foothold'.
Q 10Ephesus, whose congregation Paul's letter addresses, lies near the town of Selçuk in which modern country?
Turkey
Turkey's İzmir province holds the ruins, and the harbour that made Ephesus a great port silted up under the Küçükmenderes river, so the site now sits inland.
Q 11Ephesians 6 identifies the sword of the Spirit, the last piece of armour it lists, as what?
The word of God
The word of God is the sword, and the passage then turns from armour to prayer 'in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests'.
Q 12Which book does Ephesians 5 quote for 'the two will become one flesh', before calling it 'a profound mystery'?
Genesis
Genesis 2:24 is the line, and the writer says the mystery is really 'about Christ and the church', husbands being told to love their wives 'just as Christ loved the church'.
Q 13Which role completes the list in Ephesians 4:11: apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and what?
Teachers
Q 21Ephesians 1 calls the Holy Spirit a seal and what, 'guaranteeing our inheritance' until the redemption?
A deposit
A deposit, 'earnest' in older Bibles, renders the Greek arrabōn, a down-payment that binds a bargain, so the Spirit is the first instalment of what is promised.
Q 22Ephesians 1 says God 'predestined us' for what 'through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will'?
Adoption to sonship
Adoption to sonship renders a Roman legal term for the full standing of an adopted son, and the same sentence dates the choice to 'before the creation of the world'.
Q 23What is the 'mystery' Ephesians 3 says was hidden from earlier generations but now revealed through the gospel?
Teachers close the list, given 'to equip his people for works of service' until all 'become mature', no longer 'infants, tossed back and forth by the waves'.
Q 14Ephesians 4:32 asks readers to be 'kind and compassionate to one another' and what, as God in Christ was to them?
Forgiving
Forgiving each other 'just as in Christ God forgave you' closes a chapter that has just banned 'bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander'.
Q 15In Revelation 2, what does the risen Christ hold against the Ephesian church despite praising its hard work?
Forsaking its first love
Forsaking its first love is the charge, with a threat to 'remove your lampstand from its place' unless they 'do the things you did at first'.
Q 16Which co-worker did Paul urge to 'stay there in Ephesus' and silence false teaching, in a letter bearing his name?
Timothy
Timothy was left in Ephesus while Paul went on to Macedonia, and the same letter has Paul call himself the 'worst' of sinners.
Q 17What was the trade of Demetrius, who stirred the Ephesus riot of Acts 19 by warning craftsmen about Paul?
Silversmith
Silversmith Demetrius made miniature silver shrines of the city's goddess and complained that Paul 'says that gods made by human hands are no gods at all'.
Q 18Ephesians 2 builds the church on 'the foundation of the apostles and prophets', with Christ Jesus himself as what?
Cornerstone
Cornerstone is a title lifted from Isaiah 28 that 1 Peter also gives Christ, and the building 'rises to become a holy temple in the Lord'.
Q 19Ephesians 2 calls the devil 'the ruler of the kingdom of' what, a title used nowhere else in the New Testament?
The air
The air is the devil's domain in the KJV's 'prince of the power of the air', 'the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient'.
Q 20Which 'dear brother and faithful servant' does Ephesians 6 send to tell readers 'everything' about the writer?
Tychicus
Tychicus came from the province of Asia, Acts 20 says, and one of the Pastoral letters records him being sent to Ephesus again near the end of Paul's life.
Gentiles are heirs with Israel
Gentiles are heirs with Israel, 'members together of one body, and sharers together in the promise', a secret that 'for ages past was kept hidden in God'.
Q 24Which line, possibly a fragment of an early hymn, does Ephesians 5 introduce with 'This is why it is said'?
Wake up, sleeper
Wake up, sleeper, 'rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you', may be a snatch of early Christian song, and it follows the promise that 'everything exposed by the light becomes visible'.
Q 25Which four words does Ephesians 3 use to measure the love of Christ, a love that 'surpasses knowledge'?
Wide, long, high, deep
Wide, long, high, deep is the measure, and the prayer's goal is that readers be 'filled to the measure of all the fullness of God'.
Q 26Ephesians 6:4 tells fathers not to do what to their children, but to give them the Lord's 'training and instruction'?
Exasperate
Exasperate is the NIV's verb where the KJV has 'provoke not your children to wrath', and it comes right after children are told to obey 'in the Lord'.
Q 27Ephesians 6 tells masters to stop doing what to their slaves, since their own Master in heaven shows no favoritism?
Threatening them
Threatening them is the one practice named, after slaves are told to obey 'not only to win their favor when their eye is on you'.
Q 28Ephesians 4:28 tells a former thief to work 'with their own hands' for what purpose?
To share with the needy
To share with the needy is the stated aim, not restitution, and the rule sits just before the ban on 'unwholesome talk'.
Q 29In the armour of God, Ephesians 6 makes the breastplate out of which virtue, an image borrowed from Isaiah 59?
Righteousness
Righteousness is the breastplate in both passages, and in Isaiah the warrior wearing it is the Lord himself, wrapped 'in zeal as in a cloak'.
Q 30What is the helmet in Ephesians 6, where 1 Thessalonians 5 instead makes the helmet 'the hope of' it?
Salvation
Salvation is the helmet here, and Isaiah 59 already has God put 'the helmet of salvation on his head', the verse both letters draw on.