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    Bible Study on James Chapter 1. The tongue is an important member in which we need to be careful how we use it. A study guide is provided for the adult student.

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    James Chapter 1 Bible Study

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    Some key takeaways from the passage are that trials can help produce endurance and spiritual maturity, wisdom comes from God and is given to those who ask in faith, and true religion involves caring for those in need.

    James says that trials can help strengthen our faith by producing endurance through experience, which leads to spiritual maturity and inner peace. Facing difficulties with the right perspective can help us grow closer to God.

    James talks about wisdom being given by God to those who ask in faith, without doubting. He contrasts this with being double-minded and unstable. True wisdom helps with decision making and living according to God's will.

    James Chapter 1 Bible Reading

    Testing Your Faith


    1 [a]James, a bond-servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve [Hebrew] tribes
    [scattered abroad among the Gentiles] in the dispersion: Greetings (rejoice)! 2 Consider it nothing
    but joy, my [b]brothers and sisters, whenever you fall into various trials. 3 Be assured that the
    testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and
    inner peace]. 4 And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may
    be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing.
    5

    If any of you lacks wisdom [to guide him through a decision or circumstance], he is to ask of
    [our benevolent] God, who gives to everyone generously and without rebuke or blame, and it
    will be given to him. 6 But he must ask [for wisdom] in faith, without doubting [Gods
    willingness to help], for the one who doubts is like a billowing surge of the sea that is blown
    about and tossed by the wind. 7 For such a person ought not to think or expect that he will receive
    anything [at all] from the Lord, 8 being a double-minded man, unstable and restless in all his
    ways [in everything he thinks, feels, or decides].
    9

    Let the brother in humble circumstances glory in his high position [as a born-again believer,
    called to the true riches and to be an heir of God]; 10 and the rich man is to glory in being
    humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God],
    for like the flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with a scorching wind and
    withers the grass; its flower falls off and [c]its beauty fades away; so too will the rich man, in the
    midst of his pursuits, fade away.
    12

    Blessed [happy, spiritually prosperous, favored by God] is the man who is steadfast under trial
    and perseveres when tempted; for when he has passed the test and been approved, he will
    receive the [victors] crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him. 13 Let no
    one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God [for temptation does not originate
    from God, but from our own flaws]; for God cannot be tempted by [what is] evil, and He
    Himself tempts no one. 14 But each one is tempted when he is dragged away, enticed and baited
    [to commit sin] by his own [worldly] desire (lust, passion). 15 Then when the illicit desire has
    conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin has run its course, it gives birth to death.
    16

    Do not be misled, my beloved brothers and sisters. 17 Every good thing given and every perfect
    gift is from above; it comes down from the Father of lights [the Creator and Sustainer of the
    heavens], in whom there is no variation [no rising or setting] or shadow [d]cast by His turning [for
    He is perfect and never changes]. 18 It was of His own will that He gave us birth [as His children]
    by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of His creatures [a prime example
    of what He created to be set apart to Himselfsanctified, made holy for His divine purposes].
    19

    Understand this, my beloved brothers and sisters. Let everyone be quick to hear [be a careful,
    thoughtful listener], slow to speak [a speaker of carefully chosen words and], slow to anger
    [patient, reflective, forgiving]; 20 for the [resentful, deep-seated] anger of man does not produce
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    the righteousness of God [that standard of behavior which He requires from us]. 21 So get rid of
    all uncleanness and [e]all that remains of wickedness, and with a humble spirit receive the word
    [of God] which is implanted [actually rooted in your heart], which is able to save your souls.
    22

    But prove yourselves doers of the word [actively and continually obeying Gods precepts], and
    not merely listeners [who hear the word but fail to internalize its meaning], deluding yourselves
    [by unsound reasoning contrary to the truth]. 23 For if anyone only listens to the word [f]without
    obeying it, he is like a man who looks very carefully at his natural face in a mirror; 24 for once he
    has looked at himself and gone away, he immediately forgets [g]what he looked like. 25 But he
    who looks carefully into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and faithfully abides by it, not having
    become a [careless] listener who forgets but [h]an active doer [who obeys], he will be blessed and
    favored by God in what he does [in his life of obedience].
    26

    If anyone thinks himself to be religious [scrupulously observant of the rituals of his faith], and
    does not control his tongue but deludes his own heart, this persons religion is worthless (futile,
    barren). 27 Pure and unblemished religion [as it is expressed in outward acts] in the sight of our
    God and Father is this: to visit and look after the fatherless and the widows in their distress, and
    to keep oneself uncontaminated by the [secular] world.

    Amplified Bible, NIV Study Bible, Jeanne McIntosh 2016

    James Chapter 1 Study Guide


    Read James 1:1-4
    1. How is it possible to profit from trials?
    2. Why do people find it easier to be kind and patient with people when things are going
    well, but when they are not going well find themselves to be irritable and complaining?
    Read James 1:5-8
    1. What is James talking about when he says, If you are lacking wisdom? Does he mean
    lacking knowledge, or making good decisions or what could this be?
    2. How does wisdom have anything to do with common sense?
    3. What does wisdom have to do with being divine given by God?
    4. How can a person work towards having a stable mind when making decisions?
    Read James 1:9-11
    1. Why does James challenge us to see beyond our circumstances to eternal advantages?
    2. Why do people contribute wealth to power and status?
    3. What does a Christian have left when they lose money or a home?
    Read James 1:12-15
    1.
    2.
    3.
    4.

    What is temptation?
    Does God tempt people?
    How does it begin?
    When is the best time to stop a temptation before it goes into an action?

    Read James 1:16-18


    1. What could our first fruits be?
    Read James 1:19-21
    1. What do we communicate to others when we monopolize a conversation?
    2. How do you feel when your opinions are not heard? What do you do about it?
    3. Is it always important to win an argument? Why or why not?
    Read James 1:22-25
    1. How can we put action into what we hear in a sermon or read from the Bible?
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    2. Do you feel that a Christian is free to do what they want to do? How so?
    Read James 1:26-27
    1. Can a person be spiritual and be careless with their tongue?
    2. In what ways can the church put into practice helping those in the world or community
    without adapting to their values?

    Amplified Bible, NIV Study Bible, Jeanne McIntosh 2016

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