11 Bible Verses about games
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Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize. Every combatant in the public games is temperate in all things: they, indeed, that they may obtain a corruptible, but we, that we may obtain an incorruptible crown. I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
And if any one also contend in the public games, he is not crowned, unless he contend according to the laws.
Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.
Neither be you idolaters, as some of them were, as it is written: Tho people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to engage in idolatrous sport.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I had the mind of a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For what will it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and lose his own life?
And when they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among themselves, by casting the lot.
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.
holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us,
Games » Foot races
Know you not that all the runners in the race-course run the race, but that one receives the prize? So run, that you may obtain the prize.
And I went up because of a revelation, and communicated to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who are of reputation, lest, by any means, I should run or had run in vain.
holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
Wherefore, since we also have so great a cloud of witnesses lying round about us, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily besets us, and let us run with patience the race that lies before us,
I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If, to speak as a man, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
For I think that God has appointed us the apostles, to the lowest place, as under sentence of death; for we have become a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If, to speak as a man, I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
God is faithful, by whom you have been called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
And I went up because of a revelation, and communicated to them the gospel that I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to those who are of reputation, lest, by any means, I should run or had run in vain.
holding forth the word of life, that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I did not run in vain, nor labor in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, so run, not as with uncertainty; I so aim my blows, not as one that beats the air;
