James 1 Quiz — Trials, Wisdom, and Doers of the Word
10 questions · King James Version · biblesundays.com
1.How are we to count it when we fall into divers temptations?
- A. All joy
- B. Great sorrow
- C. A cause for fear
- D. A punishment
2.What does the trying of your faith work?
- A. Patience
- B. Pride
- C. Knowledge
- D. Power
3.What should the man that lacks wisdom do?
- A. Ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally
- B. Read the law
- C. Consult the elders
- D. Wait quietly
4.How must he ask?
- A. In faith, nothing wavering
- B. With many words
- C. With fasting only
- D. With sacrifice
5.From whom does every good gift come?
- A. The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness
- B. The wise men
- C. The teachers
- D. The angels
6.How should every man be?
- A. Swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath
- B. Swift to anger
- C. Slow to listen
- D. Quick to judge
7.What are we to be, not hearers only?
- A. Doers of the word
- B. Teachers of the word
- C. Critics of the word
- D. Keepers of the word
8.A hearer only is like a man beholding what?
- A. His natural face in a glass
- B. A garden
- C. An angel
- D. A king
9.What is pure religion and undefiled?
- A. To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world
- B. To fast often
- C. To give alms in public
- D. To teach the law
10.Whence come wars and fightings? (introduced in James 1's themes of desire)
- A. From lusts that war in your members
- B. From foreign nations
- C. From kings
- D. From poverty
Answer Key
1.A. All joy — James 1:2 (KJV)
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. (James 1:2)
2.A. Patience — James 1:3 (KJV)
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. (James 1:3)
3.A. Ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally — James 1:5 (KJV)
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. (James 1:5)
4.A. In faith, nothing wavering — James 1:6 (KJV)
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. (James 1:6)
5.A. The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness — James 1:17 (KJV)
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. (James 1:17)
6.A. Swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath — James 1:19 (KJV)
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. (James 1:19)
7.A. Doers of the word — James 1:22 (KJV)
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. (James 1:22)
8.A. His natural face in a glass — James 1:23 (KJV)
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass. (James 1:23)
9.A. To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world — James 1:27 (KJV)
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. (James 1:27)
10.A. From lusts that war in your members — James 1:14 (KJV)
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? (James 4:1) — picking up the theme of desire from James 1:14.