Here are the top 25 most popular Bible verses in James. These famous verses are the most searched, used, quoted, and most-read Bible verses in the entire book of James.
See also: Most Popular Bible Verses in 1 Peter
James 1:12 KJV
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 1:17 KJV
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 1:19 KJV
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
James 1:24 KJV
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
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.
James 4:7 KJV
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 5:16 KJV
Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
James 1:1 KJV
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
James 1:13 KJV
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
James 1:14 KJV
But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.
James 1:15 KJV
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
James 1:18 KJV
Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
James 1:2 KJV
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;
James 1:20 KJV
For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
James 1:21 KJV
Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:22 KJV
But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
James 1:23 KJV
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 1:25 KJV
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
James 1:26 KJV
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.
James 1:27 KJV
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 1:3 KJV
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
James 1:4 KJV
But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 1:6 KJV
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
James 1:7 KJV
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
James 1:8 KJV
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
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