Questions about the Book of Hebrews

The book of Hebrews is the nineteenth book of the New Testament. This epistle to the Hebrews is an anonymous book. Its authorship has been debated since post-apostolic days. Some scholars have attributed this letter to Paul but there is no conclusive proof of his authorship of Hebrews.The letter was composed prior to the destruction of Jerusalem, since it is evident that the Temple was still standing when Hebrews was written. This Epistle can be divided into three parts: 1) Christ as a person superior to all other persons. 2) The pre-eminence and finality of the priesthood of Christ. 3) The life of faith. The author of this book is unknown. Listed below are questions on the book of Hebrews. These questions can be used freely for Sunday school or bible study to help all young Christians study the scriptures. My prayers are with you always and may God bless you in your studies.

Hebrews Chapter 1

1) What truth does the writer stress in the first two verses to show the unity between the Old Testament and the New Testament? (Hebrews 1:1-2)

2) Why is this One in a position to give the ultimate revelation? (Hebrews 1:2)

3) What brought the Creator and Upholder of all things down to this small earth? (Hebrews 1:3)

4) What two words indicate the lonely and exclusive character of Jesus Christ’s redemptive work? (Hebrews 1:3)

5) Because Jesus is the exalted, incarnate Son of God, what does He possess that sets Him above the Angels of God? (Hebrews 1:4)

6) What else does He possess; something that He has “obtained” that is more excellent? (Hebrews 1:6)

7) What will God say to all the Angels when He “again brings in the firstborn into the world”? (Hebrews 1:6)

8) What did the Son say to God at His incarnation? (Hebrews 1:7)

9) What two things is Jesus Christ said to have created? (Hebrews 1:10)

10) Regardless of what happens to earth and the Heavens, what is certain about the Son? (Hebrews 1:10-12)

11) What is the function of the Angels? (Hebrews 1:14)

Hebrews Chapter 2

1) How was the word spoken by the Angels described in verse two? (Hebrews 2:2)

2) What increases the condemnation of those who neglect this “great salvation”? (Hebrews 2:3)

3) What proof was given by God “at the first” to confirm the revelation ministered by Jesus Christ and by those who had heard Him? (Hebrews 2:4)

4) To who has God subjected the world or earth to come? (Hebrews 2:6-8)

5) Why was He made “a little lower than the Angels”? (Hebrews 2:9)

6) What did God’s grace require that He should do first? (Hebrews 2:9)

7) What title is here that is given to Jesus Christ? (Hebrews 2:10)

8) What specific purpose did Jesus Christ take human form and come among men for? (Hebrews 2:14)

9) What dread is a real believer delivered from in this verse? (Hebrews 2:15)

10) Why did the Lord Jesus Christ desire to take human form? (Hebrews 2:17)

11) What two qualities does Jesus Christ possess as our perfect High Priest? (Hebrews 2:17)

12) Why can no temptation or trial come to us that He does not perfectly understand? (Hebrews 2:18)

Hebrews Chapter 3

1) What two phases of the work of Jesus Christ does the writer call attention to? (Hebrews 3:1)

2) What special characteristic did Moses have in this verse? (Hebrews 3:2)

3) What was Moses’ position in the house of God’s building? (Hebrews 3:4-5)

4) How does the writer of Hebrews describe the Christian? (Hebrews 3:6)

5) What had Israel done to provoke God in the wilderness? (Hebrews 3:8)

6) What greater depth than the mind may the root of skepticism sometimes go to? (Hebrews 3:12)

7) Because of this, what should a Christian do? (Hebrews 3:13)

8) What will we do, if we are really “partakers of Jesus Christ”? (Hebrews 3:14)

9) What caused many Israelites to perish in the wilderness? (Hebrews 3:19)

Hebrews Chapter 4

1) The writer was concerned lest his readers fail to do what? (Hebrews 4:1)

2) What did he want them to possess, lest the gospel they had heard should be of no profit to them? (Hebrews 4:2)

3) If the gospel is to profit us and actually give us rest, with what must it be mixed? (Hebrews 4:2)

4) What do those who have really believed the gospel do? (Hebrews 4:3)

5) What did God do on the seventh day from all His works in this verse? (Hebrews 4:4)

6) Who was it that failed to give Israel rest in the Old Testament in this verse? (Hebrews 4:8)

7) What facts make it a perilous thing to trifle with the Word of God? (Hebrews 4:12)

8) To what extent is the Word of God able to expose a person completely? (Hebrews 4:12)

9) Can we hide anything from God? (Hebrews 4:13)

10) Since all true believers have such a great High Priest, what are they urged to do? (Hebrews 4:14)

11) What fact should encourage us to put our confidence in this great High Priest? (Hebrews 4:15)

12) Why should we come boldly before the throne of grace? (Hebrews 4:16)

Hebrews Chapter 5

1) What two things was every Aaronic high priest expected to do? (Hebrews 5:1)

2) Because of his own sinfulness, what did the Aaronic priest have to do? (Hebrews 5:3)

3) In what respect did Jesus Christ resemble the Aaronic high priest? (Hebrews 5:4-6)

4) Through what trying experience did Jesus pass that enables Him to sympathize with us in our deepest sorrows? (Hebrews 5::7)

5) What was the purpose of this terrible testing in Gethsemane? (Hebrews 5:8-9)

6) What was wrong with those to whom this epistle was written? (Hebrews 5:11)

7) What diet do some Christians need because of their immaturity? (Hebrews 5:12)

8) If one is spiritual mature, what diet can he enjoy? (Hebrews 5:12-14)

Hebrews Chapter 6

1) Instead of continuing to lay and re-lay the foundations, what are those addressed and urged to do? (Hebrews 6:1)

2) Is a person necessarily born again because he has been “enlightened” or instructed concerning the gospel? (Hebrews 6:4)

3) Is one necessarily born again because he has been made a “partaker” of the convicting work of the Holy Spirit? (Hebrews 6:4)

4) Is a person necessarily born again because he has “tasted” the good Word of God, and likes to hear sermons based on the Bible? (Hebrews 6:5)

5) What proved to the writer of Hebrews that those that were addressed were truly Christian believers? (Hebrews 6:10)

6) How did God confirm His promise to Abraham in this verse? (Hebrews 6:17)

7) Where is the believer’s hope in the anchor of the soul grounded? (Hebrews 6:19-20)

Hebrews Chapter 7

1) Can you name the titles in verse one of Melchisedec in which he was a type of Christ? (Hebrews 7:1)

2) What is the meaning of the name “Melchisedec”? (Hebrews 7:2)

3) Is this king-priest mentioned in any other genealogy in the Bible in verse three? (Hebrews 7:3)

4) What does Abraham’s giving a tithe to Melchisedec prove in verse four? (Hebrews 7:4)

5) Would Abraham, who had God’s promises, have received a blessing from one whose stature was lower than his own? (Hebrews 7:6-7)

6) Was Jesus of Levi, the tribe which furnished all the Levitical priests of Israel? (Hebrews 7:13-14)

7) What two reasons was the Mosaic order regarding the Aaronic priesthood to be set aside for? (Hebrews 7:18)

8) What blessing does Jesus Christ provide which the law could not bestow? (Hebrews 7:19)

9) Since, on God’s oath, the priesthood of Jesus Christ can never give way to another, what does this mean to the believer? (Hebrews 7:25)

10) What qualities make the Lord Jesus Christ a suitable High Priest for us? (Hebrews 7:26)

Hebrews Chapter 8

1) What is the most important point made so far in this epistle? (Hebrews 8:1)

2) What word is used to indicate Christ’s present work as a Priest? (Hebrews 8:2)

3) What was one of the chief ministries of an Aaronic High Priest? (Hebrews 8:3)

4) What shows that Christ’s priestly ministry is Heavenly and not earthly? (Hebrews 8:4)

5) Of what were the offerings of the Aaronic Priests a shadow and an example? (Hebrews 8:5)

6) Why should the Hebrews have realized that the covenant of the law was not perfect? (Hebrews 8:7-8)

7) When was the first covenant established? (Hebrews 8:9)

8) When men come under the new covenant through the new birth, by faith in Christ as our Savior, what does God make them to become? (Hebrews 8:10)

9) When the new covenant is fully established in the millennium, what will be the scope of it? (Hebrews 8:11)

10) When this happens, what will God remember no more in verse twelve? (Hebrews 8:12)

Hebrews Chapter 9

1) What was the first two pieces of furniture that was in the tabernacle in verse two? (Hebrews 9:2)

2) What was the chief article of furniture in “the holiest of all”? (Hebrews 9:3-4)

3) What was the lid of the ark called in verse five? (Hebrews 9:5)

4) What was the one thing that the High Priest had to have when, once a year, he entered into the Holiest of All? (Hebrews 9:7)

5) What were all the animal sacrifices of the Old Testament unable to do? (Hebrews 9:9)

6) The ritual of the law was to be performed until who should come? (Hebrews 9:10-11)

7) What has this precious blood obtained for all true believers? (Hebrews 9:12)

8) What actually removes from our consciences the burden of sin? (Hebrews 9:14)

9) What statement shows that the death of Christ redeems believers who were under the law as well as those under grace? (Hebrews 9:15)

10) What was necessary to bring the new covenant into force? (Hebrews 9:16-17)

11) What was absolutely necessary for our salvation? (Hebrews 9:22)

12) Where is our Lord Jesus Christ now? (Hebrews 9:24)

13) What did Jesus Christ do when He appeared on earth the first time, and how did He do it? (Hebrews 9:26)

14) For those who do not take Jesus Christ as their Savior, what is certain after death? (Hebrews 9:27)

15) For whom are the believers in Jesus Christ looking for now? (Hebrews 9:28)

Hebrews Chapter 10

1) What were the repeated annual sacrifices unable to do in verse one? (Hebrews 10:1)

2) How do we know those animal sacrifices were unable to purge, or purity, the offered? (Hebrews 10:2)

3) What was the purpose of making those sacrifices annually? (Hebrews 10:3)

4) What was it that was impossible for the blood of animals to do? (Hebrews 10:4)

5) When the Lord Jesus Christ cane into the world, what did He say to His Father? (Hebrews 10:7)

6) What does the offering of the body of Jesus Christ accomplish for us who believe? (Hebrews 10:10)

7) What can no sacrifice other than that of Jesus Christ ever do? (Hebrews 10:11)

8) What shows that Christ’s sacrificial work is finished forever? (Hebrews 10:12)

9) What did Jesus Christ accomplish by His one offering for our sins? (Hebrews 10:14)

10) Since the believer’s sins have been put away forever, what will God never do regarding our sins? (Hebrews 10:17)

11) What privilege now belongs to the believer? (Hebrews 10:19)

12) What does the veil represent in verse twenty? (Hebrews 10:20)

13) To what two things should the believers provoke, or stimulate, to one another? (Hebrews 10:24)

14) In this same connection, it is important for us to do what? (Hebrews 10:25)

15) How was an Old Testament Jew punished if he despised the Law of Moses? (Hebrews 10:28)

Hebrews Chapter 11

1) Can you state what is said about faith in verse one? (Hebrews 11:1)

2) According to chapter eleven, verse three, what does faith teach us? (Hebrews 11:3)

3) Did Abel offer to God by faith, a more excellent sacrifice than his brother Cain? (Hebrews 11:4)

4) How did Enoch please God? (Hebrews 11:5)

5) Without what it is impossible to please God? (Hebrews 11:6)

6) How did Noah or anyone, become an heir of the righteousness of God? (Hebrews 11:7)

7) What did Abraham do by faith in verse eight? (Hebrews 11:8)

8) What did Abraham look for, by faith? (Hebrews 11:10)

9) What did faith enable Sara to do? (Hebrews 11:11)

10) What supreme test of faith came to the patriarchs before they received the things that God promised? (Hebrews 11:13)

11) What severe test was given Abraham’s faith? (Hebrews 11:17-18)

12) Since God had promised that the Messiah was to come through Isaac, what did Abraham’s faith enable him to believe? (Hebrews 11:19)

13) When Moses grew and came of age he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter by what? (Hebrews 11:24-25)

14) What did Joshua have as he marched around the walls of Jericho and the walls fell down? (Hebrews 11:30)

Hebrews Chapter 12

1) What two things are we to lay aside as we run the Christian race? (Hebrews 12:1)

2) What two things about Jesus Christ makes Him the One to whom we look to? (Hebrews 12:2)

3) What did the Lord Jesus Christ endure that should serve as the supreme example of faith? (Hebrews 12:2)

4) What indicates that the Hebrew Christians had not yet suffered extensive martyrdom? (Hebrews 12:4)

5) Though we may be called upon to endure suffering for His sake, how should we regard it? (Hebrews 12:5)

6) What does such chastening or discipline indicate in verse six? (Hebrews 12:6)

7) If we were without chastisement, what would that indicate as to our relationship to God? (Hebrews 12:8)

8) If we expect to live the Christian life in subjection to God our Father, what should we gladly accept? (Hebrews 12:9)

9) For what purpose does our Heavenly Father chasten us? (Hebrews 12:10)

10) What does chastening, properly accepted, accomplish? (Hebrews 12:11)

11) What fact about “our God” is to be kept in mind? (Hebrews 12:29)

Hebrews Chapter 13

1) What is true faith expected to produce in the Christian life? (Hebrews 13:1)

2) What is one excellent way of manifesting the love of Jesus Christ? (Hebrews 13:2)

3) What is God’s view of marriage and what will God do? (Hebrews 13:4)

4) Why should no Christian ever be covetous? (Hebrews 13:5)

5) What quality in our spiritual guides are we to follow? (Hebrews 13:7)

6) What truth about Jesus Christ should keep us from being carried away with strange doctrines? (Hebrews 13:8)

7) What answer can we give to those who object that Christians have no altar? (Hebrews 13:10)

8) If we are under reproach for being identified with Jesus Christ crucified, what should we do? (Hebrews 13:13)

9) What is the sacrifice we now have to offer God as we “make confession to His name”? (Hebrews 13:15)

10) What sacrifices besides praise are pleasing to God? (Hebrews 13:16)

Note: I pray that these questions have helped you in your studies and you have a better understanding of Gods’ word in the Bible. Please feel free to pass them on to other people if this way has helped you.

Your, Brother in Christ

Frank Rose