James Bible Quiz — Questions and Answers
All 10 questions with the correct answer, a short explanation, and the King James Version reference. Use this page as a study guide, an answer key, or a quick review sheet.
Q1.What should we do when we fall into divers temptations?
- A. Complain
- B. Count it all joy ✓
- C. Despair
- D. Blame God
Answer: Count it all joy
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
Q2.What should we ask God for in faith?
- A. Wisdom ✓
- B. Wealth
- C. Health
- D. Power
Answer: Wisdom
If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
Q3.What should a double-minded man not expect?
- A. To receive anything from the Lord ✓
- B. To be saved
- C. To be heard
- D. To be blessed
Answer: To receive anything from the Lord
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed… let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
Q4.What is the source of every good and perfect gift?
- A. The Father of lights ✓
- B. Our own efforts
- C. The church
- D. The angels
Answer: The Father of lights
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Q5.What should we be doers of?
- A. The law
- B. The word ✓
- C. Works
- D. Faith
Answer: The word
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
Q6.What is pure religion?
- A. To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world ✓
- B. To keep the Sabbath
- C. To offer sacrifices
- D. To pray three times a day
Answer: To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Q7.What did James say about faith without works?
- A. It is incomplete
- B. It is weak
- C. It is dead ✓
- D. It is hidden
Answer: It is dead
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
Q8.What does the tongue do?
- A. Blesseth God and curseth men
- B. Is a little member that boasteth great things
- C. Is a fire, a world of iniquity
- D. All of the above ✓
Answer: All of the above
The tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity… Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men.
Q9.What is the wisdom from above?
- A. First pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy ✓
- B. Earthly, sensual, devilish
- C. Bitter envying and strife
- D. Pride
Answer: First pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Q10.What avails much?
- A. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man ✓
- B. Many words
- C. Long prayers
- D. Loud prayers
Answer: The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man
The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.