11 Bible Verses about games
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Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win. Any man who enters an athletic contest goes into strict training, to win a wreath that will soon wither, but the one we compete for will never wither. So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.
You must not become idolaters, like some of them, for the Scripture says, "The people sat down to eat and drink and got up to dance."
I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside my childish ways.
The soldiers also made sport of him, coming up and offering him sour wine,
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.
offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.
I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.
Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,
Games » Foot races
Do you not know that in a race the runners all compete, but only one wins the prize? That is the way you must run, so as to win.
It was in obedience to a revelation that I went. I laid before them the good news that I preach to the heathen, presenting it privately to the leaders, for fear my efforts might be or might have been futile.
offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.
Therefore, let us too, with such a crowd of witnesses about us, throw off every impediment and the entanglement of sin, and run with determination the race for which we are entered,
So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!"
I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith.
So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.
For it seems to me, God has exhibited us apostles at the very end of the procession, like the men condemned to die in the arena. For we have become a spectacle to the whole universe, angels as well as men.
Games » Gladiatorial
From the human point of view, what good is it to me that I have fought wild animals here in Ephesus? If the dead do not rise at all, "Let us eat and drink, for we will be dead tomorrow!"
I have had a part in the great contest, I have run my race, I have preserved my faith.
So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.
God can be depended on, and it was he who called you to this fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
It was in obedience to a revelation that I went. I laid before them the good news that I preach to the heathen, presenting it privately to the leaders, for fear my efforts might be or might have been futile.
offering men the message of life. Then I will have reason to boast of you on the Day of Christ, because my exertion and labor have not been wasted.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26So that is the way I run, unswervingly. That is the way I fight, not punching the air.
