Patience 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 does James 1:4 say patience works?
- A. That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing ✓
- B. That ye may be wealthy
- C. That ye may be famous
- D. That ye may rule
Answer: That ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:4)
Q2.What does Romans 5:3-4 say tribulation works?
- A. Patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope ✓
- B. Wealth; and wealth, power
- C. Sorrow; and sorrow, death
- D. Fear; and fear, flight
Answer: Patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; And patience, experience; and experience, hope. (Romans 5:3-4)
Q3.What does Ecclesiastes 7:8 say about the patient in spirit?
- A. Better is the patient in spirit than the proud in spirit ✓
- B. Better is the rich man
- C. Better is the strong man
- D. Better is the swift man
Answer: Better is the patient in spirit than the proud in spirit
Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: and the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. (Ecclesiastes 7:8)
Q4.What does Psalm 37:7 tell us to do?
- A. Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him ✓
- B. Run ahead of God
- C. Make your own way
- D. Demand answers
Answer: Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him
Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. (Psalm 37:7)
Q5.What does Colossians 3:12 say the elect of God should put on?
- A. Bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering ✓
- B. Riches and honour
- C. Armour and sword
- D. Crowns and robes
Answer: Bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering. (Colossians 3:12)
Q6.What does Galatians 6:9 say about not growing weary?
- A. In due season we shall reap, if we faint not ✓
- B. We shall never reap
- C. We shall be disappointed
- D. We shall be punished
Answer: In due season we shall reap, if we faint not
And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not. (Galatians 6:9)
Q7.What does Hebrews 6:12 say we should be followers of?
- A. Them who through faith and patience inherit the promises ✓
- B. Them who are rich
- C. Them who are powerful
- D. Them who are famous
Answer: Them who through faith and patience inherit the promises
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. (Hebrews 6:12)
Q8.What does James 5:7-8 compare the farmer to?
- A. Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord, like the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth ✓
- B. A merchant seeking gain
- C. A soldier seeking battle
- D. A king seeking a kingdom
Answer: Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord, like the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain. (James 5:7)
Q9.What does 2 Peter 3:9 say the Lord is not slack about?
- A. His promise, but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish ✓
- B. His judgment
- C. His power
- D. His return
Answer: His promise, but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. (2 Peter 3:9)
Q10.What does Proverbs 14:29 say about him that is slow to wrath?
- A. Of great understanding ✓
- B. Of great strength
- C. Of great wealth
- D. Of great power
Answer: Of great understanding
He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly. (Proverbs 14:29)