17 Bible Verses about games
Most Relevant Verses
Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize. Now everyone who competes exercises self-control in everything. However, they do it to receive a crown that will fade away, but we a crown that will never fade away. Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he is not crowned unless he competes according to the rules.
Take your hunting gear, your quiver and bow, and go out in the field to hunt some game for me.
Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.
Don’t become idolaters as some of them were; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and got up to play.
Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for wild game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
‘Bring me the game and make a delicious meal for me to eat so that I can bless you in the Lord’s presence before I die.’
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
When I was a child,
I spoke like a child,
I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child.
When I became a man,
I put aside childish things.
The soldiers also mocked Him. They came offering Him sour wine
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race,
Hold firmly to
I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly
Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses
Games » Foot races
Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race,
I went up according to a revelation
Hold firmly to
Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses
Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If I fought wild animals in Ephesus
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
For I think God has displayed us, the apostles, in last place, like men condemned to die: We have become a spectacle to the world and to angels and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If I fought wild animals in Ephesus
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
God is faithful;
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
I went up according to a revelation
Hold firmly to
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26Therefore I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air.
