17 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win. Each competitor must exercise self-control in everything. They do it to receive a perishable crown, but we an imperishable one. So I do not run uncertainly or box like one who hits only air.
Also, if anyone competes as an athlete, he will not be crowned as the winner unless he competes according to the rules.
Therefore, take your weapons -- your quiver and your bow -- and go out into the open fields and hunt down some wild game for me.
Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.
So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play."
Isaac loved Esau because he had a taste for fresh game, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
Bring me some wild game and prepare for me some tasty food. Then I will eat it and bless you in the presence of the Lord before I die.'
The lazy person does not roast his prey, but personal possessions are precious to the diligent.
I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!
Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.
The soldiers also mocked him, coming up and offering him sour wine,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.
by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
with this goal in mind, I strive toward the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that all the runners in a stadium compete, but only one receives the prize? So run to win.
I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running -- or had not run -- in vain.
by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, we must get rid of every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and run with endurance the race set out for us,
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!
For, I think, God has exhibited us apostles last of all, as men condemned to die, because we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to people.
Games » Gladiatorial
If from a human point of view I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what did it benefit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
I have competed well; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith!
God is faithful, by whom you were called into fellowship with his son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
I went there because of a revelation and presented to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles. But I did so only in a private meeting with the influential people, to make sure that I was not running -- or had not run -- in vain.
by holding on to the word of life so that on the day of Christ I will have a reason to boast that I did not run in vain nor labor in vain.
