Q 01/05

According to 1 Peter 5:8, the devil prowls around like which animal, looking for someone to devour?

A) A roaring lion

B) A hungry wolf

C) A circling vulture

D) A coiled serpent

Answer · why

A) A roaring lion

A roaring lion is the image, and the next verse gives the response: resist him, firm in faith, knowing that believers across the world face the same s...

Q 02/05

The Babylon that sends greetings at 1 Peter 5:13 is widely read as a code name for which city?

A) Ephesus

B) Antioch

C) Rome

D) Corinth

Answer · why

C) Rome

Rome is the usual reading, since the nickname cast the empire's capital as the old enemy of the Jews, a label thought to have spread after the Temple ...

Q 03/05

1 Peter 4:16 is one of only three New Testament verses to use which name for followers of Jesus?

A) Disciple

B) Christian

C) Evangelist

D) Nazarene

Answer · why

B) Christian

Christian appears elsewhere only twice, both times in Acts, which says the name was first given to the disciples at Antioch.

Q 04/05

Which 1896 Charles Sheldon novel opens with a minister writing a sermon on 1 Peter 2:21?

A) Quo Vadis

B) The Silver Chalice

C) Pilgrim's Progress

D) In His Steps

Answer · why

D) In His Steps

In His Steps, subtitled What Would Jesus Do?, was for decades one of America's best-selling books and gave later generations the WWJD motto.

Q 05/05

Which lesser offender does 1 Peter 4:15 name beside the murderer and the thief?

A) A liar

B) A meddler

C) A drunkard

D) A glutton

Answer · why

B) A meddler

A meddler closes the list, and the King James Version spells the offence out as being a busybody in other men's matters.