James 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.If any of you lack wisdom, what does James say he should do?
- A. Search the scriptures daily
- B. Ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally ✓
- C. Consult with the elders of the church
- D. Wait in silence for a revelation
Answer: Ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally
God giveth to all men liberally and upbraideth not.
Q2.A double minded man is described as being what in all his ways?
- A. Unstable ✓
- B. Fearful
- C. Deceitful
- D. Slow
Answer: Unstable
The scripture states a double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
Q3.Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from whom?
- A. The Son of Righteousness
- B. The Holy Ghost
- C. The Father of lights ✓
- D. The King of Glory
Answer: The Father of lights
Gifts come from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness.
Q4.James instructs believers to be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to what?
- A. Judge
- B. Wrath ✓
- C. Sleep
- D. Eat
Answer: Wrath
Man is exhorted to be slow to wrath.
Q5.Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and whom in their affliction?
- A. The poor
- B. The sick
- C. The prisoners
- D. Widows ✓
Answer: Widows
Pure religion involves visiting the fatherless and widows.
Q6.James argues that faith, if it hath not works, is what?
- A. Weak
- B. Dead, being alone ✓
- C. Invisible
- D. Unprofitable
Answer: Dead, being alone
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
Q7.What small member of the body does James describe as a 'world of iniquity'?
- A. The eye
- B. The hand
- C. The tongue ✓
- D. The heart
Answer: The tongue
The tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity that defileth the whole body.
Q8.James says that if we resist the devil, he will do what?
- A. Attack more fiercely
- B. Flee from you ✓
- C. Surrender his power
- D. Deceive the nations
Answer: Flee from you
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Q9.What does James compare our life to, which appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away?
- A. A shadow
- B. A blade of grass
- C. A vapour ✓
- D. A dream
Answer: A vapour
For what is your life? It is even a vapour.
Q10.Who is the Old Testament prophet mentioned as an example of earnest prayer regarding rain?
- A. Elisha
- B. Elias ✓
- C. Isaiah
- D. Jeremiah
Answer: Elias
Elias (Elijah) prayed earnestly that it might not rain.