11 Bible Verses about games
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Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain. And every one who contendeth [in the games] is temperate in all things: they indeed therefore do it that they may receive a corruptible crown, but we an incorruptible. I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air:
And if a man contend in the public games, he is not crowned victor, unless he contend according to the laws.
Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.
Neither be ye idolaters as some of them; as it is written, "The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to sport themselves."
I have struggled hard in the honourable contest, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child: but when I grew a man, I put away childish things.
For what would it profit a man, though he should gain the whole world, if he be punished with the loss of his own soul?
Then having crucified him, they parted his garments, casting the lot: that it might be fulfilled, what was spoken by the prophet, They parted my garments among them, and for my vesture they threw the lot.
From Thematic Bible
Games » Figurative » Of the Christian life
Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.
Ye were running well: who hath hindered you that ye should not obey the truth?
holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.
THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us,
Games » Foot races
Know ye not that they who run on the course, all run indeed, yet but one obtaineth the price? So run, that ye may obtain.
And I went up then by revelation, and laid before them that gospel which I preach among the Heathen, but in private conference with those who were of the first importance, that haply I might not run, nor had run in vain.
holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
THEREFORE also seeing we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, laying aside every weight, and that most easily besetting sin, let us run with patience the race lying before us,
I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air:
Games » Figurative » Fighting wild "beasts", of spiritual conflict
If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage would it be to me, if the dead did not rise again? shall we eat and drink; because to-morrow we die?
I have struggled hard in the honourable contest, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air:
For I think that God hath exposed us his apostles the last as devoted unto death. For we have been made a spectacle to the world, and to angels, and to men.
Games » Gladiatorial
If after the manner of men I have fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, of what advantage would it be to me, if the dead did not rise again? shall we eat and drink; because to-morrow we die?
I have struggled hard in the honourable contest, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith:
I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air:
Faithful is God, by whom ye have been called into communion with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.
Games » Figurative » Of a successful ministry
And I went up then by revelation, and laid before them that gospel which I preach among the Heathen, but in private conference with those who were of the first importance, that haply I might not run, nor had run in vain.
holding up the word of life, that I may glory in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, nor laboured in vain.
Topics on Games
Games, Spiritual
1 Corinthians 9:26I therefore so run not as uncertainly; so do I exercise with my fists, not as striking the air:
