Perseverance & Endurance 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 say the trying of faith works?
- A. Fear
- B. Patience ✓
- C. Anger
- D. Doubt
Answer: Patience
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. (James 1:3)
Q2.What should patience have to be perfect and entire?
- A. Its perfect work ✓
- B. Help from others
- C. Time and money
- D. Rest and sleep
Answer: Its perfect work
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. (James 1:4)
Q3.What does Hebrews 12:1 tell us to lay aside?
- A. Every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us ✓
- B. Our clothes
- C. Our food
- D. Our families
Answer: Every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us. (Hebrews 12:1)
Q4.How should we run the race set before us?
- A. With patience ✓
- B. With fear
- C. With pride
- D. With anger
Answer: With patience
And let us run with patience the race that is set before us. (Hebrews 12:1)
Q5.Who is the author and finisher of our faith?
- A. Moses
- B. Peter
- C. Jesus ✓
- D. Paul
Answer: Jesus
Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. (Hebrews 12:2)
Q6.What did Jesus endure for the joy set before Him?
- A. The cross, despising the shame ✓
- B. The praise of men
- C. Wealth and honor
- D. A crown of gold
Answer: The cross, despising the shame
Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. (Hebrews 12:2)
Q7.What did Paul say he pressed toward?
- A. The mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus ✓
- B. Earthly riches
- C. Worldly fame
- D. A comfortable life
Answer: The mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus
I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:14)
Q8.What does Paul tell Timothy to endure?
- A. Hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ ✓
- B. Comfort and ease
- C. Praise and honor
- D. Wealth and leisure
Answer: Hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. (2 Timothy 2:3)
Q9.What did Jesus say about enduring to the end?
- A. He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved ✓
- B. Those who struggle will fail
- C. Only the wise endure
- D. Endurance is optional
Answer: He that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved
But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. (Matthew 24:13)
Q10.What does Revelation say about him that overcometh?
- A. I will give to eat of the tree of life ✓
- B. He shall be forgotten
- C. He shall receive silver
- D. He shall be made a king on earth
Answer: I will give to eat of the tree of life
To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. (Revelation 2:7)