17 Bible Verses about games
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Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain. But every one that contends for a prize is temperate in all things: they then indeed that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
And if also any one contend in the games, he is not crowned unless he contend lawfully.
And now, I pray thee, take thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field and hunt me venison,
Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
Neither be ye idolaters, as some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste; and Rebecca loved Jacob.
Bring me venison, and prepare me a savoury dish, that I may eat, and bless thee before Jehovah, before my death.
The slothful roasteth not what he took in hunting; but man's precious substance is to the diligent.
I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.
And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.
For what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
And the soldiers also made game of him, coming up offering him vinegar,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.
I pursue, looking towards the goal, for the prize of the calling on high of God in Christ Jesus.
Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
Games » Foot races
Know ye not that they who run in the race-course run all, but one receives the prize? Thus run in order that ye may obtain.
and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;
holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.
Let us also therefore, having so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and sin which so easily entangles us, run with endurance the race that lies before us,
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If, to speak after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if those that are dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
For I think that God has set us the apostles for the last, as appointed to death. For we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If, to speak after the manner of man, I have fought with beasts in Ephesus, what is the profit to me if those that are dead do not rise? let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
I have combated the good combat, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
God is faithful, by whom ye have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
and I went up according to revelation, and I laid before them the glad tidings which I preach among the nations, but privately to those conspicuous among them, lest in any way I run or had run in vain;
holding forth the word of life, so as to be a boast for me in Christ's day, that I have not run in vain nor laboured in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore thus run, as not uncertainly; so I combat, as not beating the air.
