17 Bible Verses about games
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Know ye not that, they who, in a racecourse, run, all, indeed, run, - but, one, receiveth the prize? So, be running, that ye may lay hold. But, every man who striveth in the games, in all things, useth self-control; - they, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown, they may receive; but, we, an incorruptible! I, therefore, so, am running, as, not uncertainly, so, am boxing, as not thrashing air;
If, moreover, any man, contend even in the games, he is not crowned, unless, lawfully, he contend;
Now, therefore, take I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and catch for me game;
Know ye not that, they who, in a racecourse, run, all, indeed, run, - but, one, receiveth the prize? So, be running, that ye may lay hold.
Neither become ye, idolaters, as some of them, - as it is written - The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to be making sport;
And, Isaac, loved, Esau, because of the game he put in his mouth, - but, Rebekah, was a lover of Jacob!.
Bring in for me gains and make for me dainty meats, that I may eat; and let me bless thee in the presence of Yahweh before my death.
Indolence, roasteth not, his own game, but, the substance of a man, is precious, when he is diligent.
The noble contest, have I contested, the race, have I finished, the faith, have I kept:
The treasures of lawlessness, do not profit, but, righteousness, delivereth from death.
When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, to prefer as child, to reason as a child: now I have become a man, I have laid aside the things of the child!
And, the broadways of the city, shall be full of boys and girls, - playing in the broadways thereof.
Moreover the soldiers also mocked him, - coming near, offering, vinegar, unto him,
And, having crucified him, they parted among themselves his garments, casting a cloth;
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know ye not that, they who, in a racecourse, run, all, indeed, run, - but, one, receiveth the prize? So, be running, that ye may lay hold.
Ye were running well: - who hath hindered you, that, by truth, ye are not to be persuaded?
A word of light, holding forth, - as a matter of boasting unto me, for the day of Christ, - that, not in vain, I ran, nor, in vain, I toiled: -
With the goal in view, I press on for the prize of the upward calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Therefore, indeed, seeing that, we also, have encircling us, so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every incumbrance and the easily entangling sin, with endurance, let us be running, the race that is lying before us,
Games » Foot races
Know ye not that, they who, in a racecourse, run, all, indeed, run, - but, one, receiveth the prize? So, be running, that ye may lay hold.
And I went up by revelation, and laid before them the glad-message which I proclaim among the nations; privately, however, to them of repute, - lest, by any means, in vain, I should be running, or had run.
A word of light, holding forth, - as a matter of boasting unto me, for the day of Christ, - that, not in vain, I ran, nor, in vain, I toiled: -
Therefore, indeed, seeing that, we also, have encircling us, so great a cloud of witnesses, stripping off every incumbrance and the easily entangling sin, with endurance, let us be running, the race that is lying before us,
I, therefore, so, am running, as, not uncertainly, so, am boxing, as not thrashing air;
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If, after the manner of men, I have fought with wild-beasts at Ephesus, what, to me, the profit? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for, tomorrow, we die.
The noble contest, have I contested, the race, have I finished, the faith, have I kept:
I, therefore, so, am running, as, not uncertainly, so, am boxing, as not thrashing air;
For I think that, God, hath set forth, us the apostles, to be last of all, as men devoted to death, - in that, a spectacle, have we been made, unto the world, - both unto messengers and unto men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If, after the manner of men, I have fought with wild-beasts at Ephesus, what, to me, the profit? If the dead are not raised, Let us eat and drink, for, tomorrow, we die.
The noble contest, have I contested, the race, have I finished, the faith, have I kept:
I, therefore, so, am running, as, not uncertainly, so, am boxing, as not thrashing air;
Faithful, is God, through 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 by revelation, and laid before them the glad-message which I proclaim among the nations; privately, however, to them of repute, - lest, by any means, in vain, I should be running, or had run.
A word of light, holding forth, - as a matter of boasting unto me, for the day of Christ, - that, not in vain, I ran, nor, in vain, I toiled: -
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I, therefore, so, am running, as, not uncertainly, so, am boxing, as not thrashing air;
