James 1

Which worship songs are based on James 1?

Stay Strong — Danny Gokey (2021) James 1:2-3
The bridge closely reproduces James's instruction to regard testing as joy, grounding endurance in God's use of trials.
Gratefulness — Rend Collective (2022) James 1:2-4
The bridge's deliberate decision to regard trials as joy closely paraphrases James's command to count testing as joy because it produces endurance.
Trials of Many Kinds — Rita Springer (2024) James 1:2-4
The chorus closely follows James's instruction to regard various trials with joy because suffering produces spiritual maturity.
joy — Simply Worship, Bec Armour (2025) James 1:2-3
The chorus closely follows James's instruction to regard trials as joy because the testing of faith produces perseverance or spiritual endurance.
Follow (Live From Passion 2024) — Passion & Melodie Malone (2024) James 1:2
The song adopts James’s distinctive instruction to regard trials with joy, applying it to the cost of following Christ.
Lord Of My Life - Live — The Belonging Co & Andrew Holt (2023) James 1:2-3
The response of considering trials a source of joy directly echoes James's instruction concerning the testing and perseverance of faith.
FEED OFF — Torey D'Shaun & 3700Nesso & Kijan Boone (2025) James 1:8
The lyrics discuss being double-minded, which aligns with James 1:8's description of a double-minded person being unstable in all their ways.
You Are Good (Ulungile) — Sinach (2025) James 1:17
The song directly uses the KJV's distinctive language for God's complete constancy, presenting His goodness as free from fluctuation or change.
Where Your Heart Is — AWAKE84 (2024) James 1:17
The declaration that every good thing originates with God closely restates James's teaching that every good and perfect gift comes from above.
Lucky — Brandon Heath (2024) James 1:17
The song identifies life's blessings as gifts coming from God above, closely echoing James's teaching that every good gift descends from the Father.
Father of Lights — Chris Tomlin (2022) James 1:17
The chorus directly draws on James's description of every good gift descending from God, identified there as the Father of lights.
Everything I Need — Hannah Kerr (2024) James 1:17
The repeated description of God as the source of every good gift closely paraphrases James's teaching that all good and perfect gifts come from God.
Everything Good — Jordan Feliz (2024) James 1:17
The song's central declaration closely paraphrases James's teaching that every good gift ultimately comes from God.
Praise God for That — Jordan Feliz (2024) James 1:17
The bridge closely reflects James's teaching that every good gift comes from God, whose character does not change. The pairing of divine generosity with immutability makes this more specific than a general statement of gratitude.
Great Is Thy Faithfulness (The Voice Performance) — Jordan Smith (2025) James 1:17
The lyrics reflect the idea that God does not change, which aligns with James 1:17, emphasizing that every good gift comes from the unchanging nature of God.
Good — Sam Purpose (2023) James 1:17
The first verse closely reproduces James's description of every good gift as coming from above.
SIMPLY JESUS - Live — Amanda Cook (2025) James 1:17
The bridge closely reflects James's teaching that every good gift has its source in God.
Menorah — Jackie Hill Perry & nobigdyl. (2025) James 1:27
The definition of pure religion through care for widows and orphans directly reproduces James’s teaching and contrasts it with the narrator’s self-indulgence.
Dark Skin (feat. Black Violin) — KB & Black Violin (2020) James 1:27
The song closely invokes James's definition of genuine religion by linking it with care for widows and orphans.

James 1 (King James Version)

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

² My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

³ Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.

⁴ But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

⁵ 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.

⁶ 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.

⁷ For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.

⁸ A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

⁹ Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted:

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

¹¹ For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

¹² 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.

¹³ 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:

¹⁴ But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

¹⁵ Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

¹⁶ Do not err, my beloved brethren.

¹⁷ 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.

¹⁸ Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

¹⁹ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

²⁰ For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.

²¹ Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

²² But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

²³ 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:

²⁴ For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

²⁵ 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.

²⁶ 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.

²⁷ 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.