Chapter 1

Question 0

James 1:2

Answer 0

My brothers and sisters, think of the various tests you encounter as occasions for joy.

Question 1

James 1:1

Answer 1

From James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. To the twelve tribes who are scattered outside the land of Israel. Greetings!

Question 2

James 1:3

Answer 2

After all, you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance.

Question 3

James 1:4

Answer 3

Let this endurance complete its work so that you may be fully mature, complete, and lacking in nothing.

Question 4

James 1:5

Answer 4

But anyone who needs wisdom should ask God, whose very nature is to give to everyone without a second thought, without keeping score. Wisdom will certainly be given to those who ask.

Question 5

James 1:6

Answer 5

Whoever asks shouldn’t hesitate. They should ask in faith, without doubting. Whoever doubts is like the surf of the sea, tossed and turned by the wind.

Question 6

James 1:7

Answer 6

People like that should never imagine that they will receive anything from the Lord.

Question 7

James 1:8

Answer 7

They are double-minded, unstable in all their ways.

Question 8

James 1:9

Answer 8

Brothers and sisters who are poor should find satisfaction in their high status.

Question 9

James 1:10

Answer 9

Those who are wealthy should find satisfaction in their low status, because they will die off like wildflowers.

Question 10

James 1:11

Answer 10

The sun rises with its scorching heat and dries up the grass so that its flowers fall and its beauty is lost. Just like that, in the midst of their daily lives, the wealthy will waste away.

Question 11

James 1:12

Answer 11

Those who stand firm during testing are blessed. They are tried and true. They will receive the life God has promised to those who love him as their reward.

Question 12

James 1:13

Answer 12

No one who is tested should say, “God is tempting me!” This is because God is not tempted by any form of evil, nor does he tempt anyone.

Question 13

James 1:14

Answer 13

Everyone is tempted by their own cravings; they are lured away and enticed by them.

Question 14

James 1:15

Answer 14

Once those cravings conceive, they give birth to sin; and when sin grows up, it gives birth to death.

Question 15

James 1:16

Answer 15

Don’t be misled, my dear brothers and sisters.

Question 16

James 1:17

Answer 16

Every good gift, every perfect gift, comes from above. These gifts come down from the Father, the creator of the heavenly lights, in whose character there is no change at all.

Question 17

James 1:18

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He chose to give us birth by his true word, and here is the result: we are like the first crop from the harvest of everything he created.

Question 18

James 1:19

Answer 18

Know this, my dear brothers and sisters: everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to grow angry.

Question 19

James 1:20

Answer 19

This is because an angry person doesn’t produce God’s righteousness.

Question 20

James 1:21

Answer 20

Therefore, with humility, set aside all moral filth and the growth of wickedness, and welcome the word planted deep inside you—the very word that is able to save you.

Question 21

James 1:22

Answer 21

You must be doers of the word and not only hearers who mislead themselves.

Question 22

James 1:23

Answer 22

Those who hear but don’t do the word are like those who look at their faces in a mirror.

Question 23

Greeting

Answer 23

James 1:1

Question 23

James 1:24

Answer 23

They look at themselves, walk away, and immediately forget what they were like.

Question 24

James 1:25

Answer 24

But there are those who study the perfect law, the law of freedom, and continue to do it. They don’t listen and then forget, but they put it into practice in their lives. They will be blessed in whatever they do.

Question 25

Stand Firm

Answer 25

James 1:2-12

Question 25

James 1:26

Answer 25

If those who claim devotion to God don’t control what they say, they mislead themselves. Their devotion is worthless.

Question 26

James 1:27

Answer 26

True devotion, the kind that is pure and faultless before God the Father, is this: to care for orphans and widows in their difficulties and to keep the world from contaminating us.

Question 28

Stand Firm A

Answer 28

James 1:2-8

My brothers and sisters, think…

Question 30

Stand Firm B

Answer 30

James 1:9-12

Brothers and sisters who….

Question 31

Our Cravings vs God’s Gifts

Answer 31

James 1:13-18

No one who is tested…

Question 32

Our Cravings vs God’s Gifts A

Answer 32

James 1:13-15

No one who is tested….

Question 33

Our Cravings vs God’s Gifts B

Answer 33

James 1:16-18

Don’t be mislead, my dear…

Question 34

Welcoming and Doing the Word

Answer 34

James 1:19-27

Know this my dear brothers and sisters….

Question 35

Welcoming and Doing the Word A

Answer 35

James 1:19-21

Know this my dear brothers and sisters…

Question 36

Welcoming and Doing the Word B

Answer 36

James 1:22-25

You must be doers of the Word….

Question 37

Welcoming and Doing the Word C

Answer 37

James 1:26-27

If those who claim devotion…