Fun and Games from
The General Epistle Of James
Bible Heroes -- Fill in the Bible character that fits each description. 
(Spelling from the book of James, King James Version.)
You have heard of his patience / James 5:11
She sent the spies out another way / James 2:25
He was called the Friend of God / James 2:23
He prayed that it would not rain / James 5:17
He was the son of Abraham / James 2:21
A servant of God / James 1:1
Fruit of the Spirit -- Circle the variations of the Fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22 & 23.

1  "My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations" James 1:2

2  "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive

the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him."  James 1:12

3  "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." James 2:17

4  "Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of

a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom."  James 3:13

5  "But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and

easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without

hypocrisy."  James 3:17

Scrambled Letters -- Find and correct the words in the following verses that have
scrambled letters. 

"But the tongue can no man meat; it is an unruly live, full of deadly poison."  James 3:8 

____________      ____________

"Can the fig tree, my brethren, bare olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no
fountain both yield last water and fresh."  James 3:12

____________      ____________

"Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Sister the lived, and he will feel from you."  James 4:7

____________      ____________      ____________

4  "Tub above all nights, my brethren, wears not, neither by heaven, neither by the heart,
neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into
condemnation."  James 5:12

     ____________      ____________      ____________     ____________
If ... Then -- Draw a line to match the phrases in these "If" ... "Then" verses.
"... ye commit sin"  James 2:9

"... ye do well"  James 2:8

"... is dead, being alone."  James 2:17

"... let him ask of God, that giveth to all
men liberally"  James 1:5

"... the same is a perfect man" 
James 3:2

"... this man's religion is vain." 
James 1:26

"... we shall live, and do this, or
that."  James 4:15

" ... glory not, and lie not against the
truth."  James 3:14

"... thou art not a doer of the law,
but a judge."  James 4:11

1  "If any of you lack wisdom, ..."

2  "If ye fulfil the royal law according
to the scripture, Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself, ..."

3  "But if ye have respect to persons, ..."

4 "If any man among you seem to be
religious, and bridleth not his
tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, ..."

5  "If any man offend not in word, ..."

6 "Even so faith, if it hath not works, ..."

7  "If thou judge the law, ..."

8  "For that ye ought to say, If the Lord
will, ..."

9  "But if you have bitter envying and
strife in your hearts, ..."
Add the missing letters to complete these words.
1  "For he that wavereth is like a ____ of the sea driven
with the wind and tossed."  James 1:6

2 "...the flower thereof falleth, ... so also shall the rich
man _____ away in his ways."  James 1:11

3  "For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer,
he is like unto a man beholding his natural _____
in a glass:"  James 1:23

4  "Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and
by works was faith _____ perfect?"  James 2:22

5  "If any man offend not in word, the _____ is a perfect
man, and able also to bridle the whole body." 
James 3:2

6  "But the tongue can no man _____; it is an unruly
evil, full of deadly poison."  James 3:8

7  "Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of
the church; and let them pray over him, anointing
him with oil in the _____ of the Lord:"  James 5:14

8  "And the prayer of faith shall _____ the sick, and the
Lord shall raise him up; and if he _____ committed
sins, they shall be forgiven him."  James 5:15
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Treasure Hunt "Ye have heaped treasure together..."  James 5:3

Use the following verses as guidelines to gather your treasure together and meet back
at the appointed time and place.  Replicas may be used in the place of real items;
"ship" for example.  Circle or highlight each item you "heap together".

1  "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

2 "Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the
fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted
from the world."  James 1:27

3 "For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring,
in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;" 
James 2:2

4  "...Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or
sit here under my footstool:"  James 2:3

5  "But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass
he shall pass away."  James 1:10

6  "Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he
shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them
that love him."  James 1:12

7 "Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths..."  James 3:3

8  "Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven
of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm,
whithersoever the governor listeth."  James 3:4

9  "For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things
in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:"  James 3:7

10  "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down
from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow
of turning."  James 1:17

11  "Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs?
so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh."  James 3:12

12  "And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace."
James 3:18

13  "Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness
against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.  Ye have heaped
treasure together for the last days."  James 5:3

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Numbers -- Fill in the missing numbers.

1  "James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the __________ tribes
which are scattered abroad, greeting."  James 1:1

2  "There is __________ lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who
art thou that judgest another?"  James 4:12

3  "Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly
that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of
__________ years and __________ months."  James 5:17

4  How many chapters are in the book of James?  __________
Answers:

Bible Heroes -- Job, Rahab, Abraham, Elias, Isaac, and James

Scrambled Letters --
1 meat / tame, live / evil
2 bare / bear, last / salt
3 Sister / Resist, lived / devil, feel / flee
4 Tub / But, nights / things, wears / swear, heart / earth

Fruit Of The Spirit --
1 joy
2 love
3 faith
4 meekness
5 peaceable, gentle, and good

If ... Then --
1 "If any of you lack wisdom ... let him ask of God that giveth to all men liberally"
2 "If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love
thy neighbour as thyself, ... ye do well"
3 "But if ye have respect of persons ... ye commit sin"
4 "If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue,
but deceiveth his own heart, ... this man's religion is vain"
5 "If any man offend not in word ... the same is a perfect man"
6 "Even so faith, if it hath not works ... is dead, being alone"
7 "If thou judge the law, ... thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge"
8 "For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, ... we shall live, and do this, or that"
9 "But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, ... glory not, and lie
not against the truth"

JAMES
1 WAVE2 FADE3 FACE4 MADE5 SAME
6 TAME7 NAME8 SAVE / HAVE

Numbers
1 twelve tribes2 one lawgiver3 three years and six months
4 five chapters