Bible Quiz on James 1–5 with Answers | Test Your Knowledge of the Book of James

Answer 1: C — James teaches that enduring trials builds patience.
KJV Reference: “Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.” (James 1:3)

Answer 2: B — The verse emphasizes the unchanging nature of God’s goodness.
KJV Reference: “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights…” (James 1:17)

Answer 3: C — James compares this person to one who forgets his reflection in a mirror.
KJV Reference: “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)

Answer 4: B — This verse gives practical advice on listening and responding wisely.
KJV Reference: “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:” (James 1:19)

Answer 5: D — James emphasizes compassionate action as a sign of true religion.
KJV Reference: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…” (James 1:27)

Answer 6: C — James emphasizes that true faith must be accompanied by action.
KJV Reference: “Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith without thy works, and I will show thee my faith by my works.” (James 2:18)

Answer 7: B — This verse stresses the total weight of the law.
KJV Reference: “For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.” (James 2:10)

Answer 8: C — James uses vivid imagery to describe the danger of the tongue.
KJV Reference: “And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity…” (James 3:6)

Answer 9: C — This powerful instruction is tied to submitting to God.
KJV Reference: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7)

Answer 10: C — James declares that faith without corresponding actions is lifeless.
KJV Reference: “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” (James 2:17)

Answer 11: C — James addressed this to the believers in general, calling them brethren.
KJV Reference: “Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.” (James 4:3)

Answer 12: C — A timeless principle for communication and self-control.
KJV Reference: “Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” (James 1:19)

Answer 13: C — The verse goes on to describe caring for the fatherless and widows.
KJV Reference: “Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction…” (James 1:27)

Answer 14: C — Controlling the tongue is a test of genuine religion.
KJV Reference: “If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue… this man’s religion is vain.” (James 1:26)

Answer 15: C — James warns against doubting during prayer.
KJV Reference: “For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.” (James 1:6)

Answer 16: C — This verse shows that uncontrolled human anger does not lead to godly living.
KJV Reference: “For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.” (James 1:20)

Answer 17: D — True obedience comes through action, not just listening.
KJV Reference: “But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.” (James 1:22)

Answer 18: B — James compares such a man to someone who sees his face in a mirror and immediately forgets it.
KJV Reference: “For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.” (James 1:24)

Answer 19: B — James condemns favoritism as a sin.
KJV Reference: “But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.” (James 2:9)

Answer 20: B — James emphasized that faith without works is dead.
KJV Reference: “Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.” (James 2:17)

Answer 21: C — Even demons believe in God’s existence, and they tremble at the truth.
KJV Reference: “Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.” (James 2:19)

Answer 22: B — James shows how Abraham’s actions proved his faith was genuine.
KJV Reference: “Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?” (James 2:21)

Answer 23: D — James addresses the “vain man” to emphasize that faith without works is useless.
KJV Reference: “But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?” (James 2:20)

Answer 24: C

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.”

Answer 25: B — James highlights the contradiction of praising God and cursing people with the same tongue.
KJV Reference: “Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.” (James 3:10)

Answer 26: C — James compares the tongue to a rudder that controls the direction of a massive ship.
KJV Reference: “Behold also the ships, which though they be so great…are they turned about with a very small helm.” (James 3:4)

Answer 27: C — James outlines the nature of divine wisdom from above.
KJV Reference: “But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits…” (James 3:17)

Answer 28: C — James warns against hypocrisy and internal strife that contradicts truth.
KJV Reference: “But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.” (James 3:14)

Answer 29: D — Friendship with the world signifies spiritual infidelity.
KJV Reference: “Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.” (James 4:4)

Answer 30: D — This empowering verse encourages active resistance against temptation and the devil.
KJV Reference: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” (James 4:7)

Answer 31: C — James warns that to speak evil of a brother is to judge the law, rather than obey it.
KJV Reference: “He that speaketh evil of his brother…speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law.” (James 4:11)

Answer 32: A — James rebukes presumptuous planners who forget the uncertainty of life.
KJV Reference: “Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city…ye know not what shall be on the morrow.” (James 4:13–14)

Answer 33: C — James defines personal responsibility and sin based on neglected good actions.
KJV Reference: “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” (James 4:17)

Answer 34: C — James rebukes oppressive rich men for killing the just who resist not.
KJV Reference: “Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.” (James 5:6)

Answer 35: B — Elijah is described as “a man subject to like passions” whose earnest prayers changed the weather.
KJV Reference: “Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain…” (James 5:17)