5 Bible Verses about Games, Spiritual
Most Relevant Verses
as you hold out [i.e., offer to people] the message of [never ending] life. Then I will have something to boast about on the day of Christ's [return, See 1:6], that I had not run the race for nothing nor had worked for nothing.
I have fought the good battle; I have finished the race; I have kept the faith [i.e., I have been true to my commitment].
Do you not know that [although] everyone runs in a race, only one person wins the prize? So, you should run in order to win.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a large crowd of spectators [Note: Christians are pictured here as being in a crowded arena, performing in the games], we should lay aside every [excessive] weight and sin that so easily entangle us, and with perseverance, we should run the race [of life] that lies before us.
