James 1 Quiz — Trials, Wisdom, and Doers of the Word — 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.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
Answer: All joy
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations. (James 1:2)
Q2.What does the trying of your faith work?
- A. Patience ✓
- B. Pride
- C. Knowledge
- D. Power
Answer: Patience
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. (James 1:3)
Q3.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
Answer: Ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally
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)
Q4.How must he ask?
- A. In faith, nothing wavering ✓
- B. With many words
- C. With fasting only
- D. With sacrifice
Answer: In faith, nothing wavering
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)
Q5.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
Answer: The Father of lights, with whom is no variableness
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)
Q6.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
Answer: Swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath. (James 1:19)
Q7.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
Answer: Doers of the word
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. (James 1:22)
Q8.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
Answer: His natural face in a glass
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)
Q9.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
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. (James 1:27)
Q10.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: From lusts that war in your members
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.